There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about recapturing the ethos of making things, of fixing things, partially out of thrift, partially out of a desire to make sure we own our stuff, not the other way around. One quick look at Curtis Gregory Perry’s photo of a Dodge A-100 van left neglected, […]
Of the very short-lived vansploitation trend of late 1970s film, “Supervan” is perhaps the best known. And as we see from the world’s greatest chase scene above, the van in question – Vandora – was equipped with lasers. Looks like somebody had a little bit of Star Wars envy in 1977. Bonus, the trailer for […]
David LaChance made my day recently when, digging through the SIA archive files, he came across these color photos of the Brooks Stevens-designed, Reutter-built, one-of-three Willys Jeep FC-150 minivans. We had previously shown these photos in black and white four years ago, so it’s far past time we post them again. We still haven’t heard […]