WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?!

TO GET FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT!

Man, this has been a pretty crazy RV-heavy couple of weeks, huh?

Griffehpoo

It's teh amsomes, but how does it turn?

MagnoliaBoy

Holy shit. I have never seen that before.

Solidius

4-axle also means more monies at the toll. Still, must. buy. van.

gelatinous

Just paint it in black and imagine how many people can be kidnapped in it at the same time! Seriously, according to Hollywood this is the vehicle mostly preferred by kidnappers. It's used like in 6 out of 10 movies for kidnapping someone.

DaSmith

Get her running on corn oil! You'll be right as rain. And smelling like McDonalds.

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SuperCollider

If this thing really does get the advertised 15-20mpg, I am impressed. I am guessing the combined is probably in single digits. Still, that is a small price to pay to be the envy of small town America everywhere.

Monty

Can't wait to see what the gas mileage on that sucker would be.

jabber

I would think they coulda used a better paint scheme and new rims for that thing.

P3nnst8r

@Griffehpoo: I thought I had missed the obligatory Meatballs reference, but BOOM, there it is! Thanks!

@Netscott: I wondered what caused my hair loss. Seems I've been dragged sideways too often....

@Munch the BanNail: I thought "hippie miles" were based on the notion of "going places without actually moving."

ps61318

Must have this van!

Cyborg28

That's one helluva van to live in DOWN BY THE RIVER!!

SkyLab

@Monty: They must have missed a "." That's gotta be 1.5 - 2.0 MPG. Unless they got it backwards and it's 15 gpm.

As for turning, it must have a differential on each of the medial and posterior axles. I so wanna drive this thing.

Geisrud

@Monty: It's a small rpice to pay to CONTAIN small town America.

ps61318

15-20 mpg ain't too bad for that hunk of metal.

Better than half the trucks soccer moms are using now.

bobx3

How the hell does that thing steer? Unless there are more steerable wheels than the two in front, I can't see how it can go anywhere but straight. Okay, maybe a little left or right, but I figure it would have a turning-radius of about 600 yards...

russdanger

@Awax: Ah! I'm such a fool! How could I not have thought of that one?!

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground...

Griffehpoo

Those center tires surely must go bald rather quickly unless they have some sort of independent pivoting mechanisms. Without such a thing they'd just be dragged sideways on any significant turning radius.

-Scott

Netscott

This is so crazy this looks Photoshopped.
BTW, how many Mr T can you fit inside ?

Awax

Sure the gas mileage is going to be crap, but do the math... say it gets 10mpg - it's going to take 20 gallons of gas to drive 20 hippies 200 miles. That works out 200 hippie miles per gallon!!! and you've got a perfect spot to smoke/drink when you get to the concert (I don't care which concert - pick your poison, as long as it's not Poison). Plus, you're never going to have to ask yourself "Where did I park?" Just look for the clusterfuck of people standing around in the parking lot with a 'WTF' look on their faces.

Munch the BanNail

I smell a new Apple ad..."Just imagine the places you can go with your 3g iPhone and your NEW(ish) customized 1984 GMC Van!"

Kaspir

Uhmm... I hope the four middle wheels can turn like office chair wheels... seriously... unless you're okay with peeling the rubber off the tires with a really annoying screeching noise.....

icegnome

@ the $1,325 current bid, I think it's a steal. Unfortunately, the cost of gas to drive it from Florida to San Diego puts it way outta my league...

atomx

The welding job this guy did is exquisite. I love the idea of showering in a moving vehicle. All fun and games till a deer runs out and you slam on the breaks.

wolfenstein-3d

When we were attending the Kutztown Folk Festival over the weekend I noticed the usual campers and whatnot, but what caught my eye was the high-top van with the pillows and bedding airing up on the roof.

It was beautiful weather, so it was an awesome idea for airing that stuff out, considering it's a week-long festival.

I'm gonna post some pics to my Flikr later today.

That van looks like it might be fun to live in for a while if the rest of it is as well appointed as the exterior! :D

strider_mt2k

They should just impound it and put away all of those children's nightmares who read giz.
I mean i'd probably be shitting bricks if one of these things came up next to me to ask me for directions. I'll say the truth. I mean i'd be like terrified at first then probably step away and give the person directions from like 20-30feet away from the car.

SneakerFiend

If all the 4 axis could steer you can decrease the turning radius
but still i doubt if it is enough unless you can position all those axis a different position as the previous ones

if the latest is done then i smell donuts :D

TBM-Fan

@SkyLab: Indeed and it would be big enough to fit the likes of a Chris Farley comfortably. Nice ref!

-Scott

Netscott

from the ebay blurb, it has 2 steerable axles, so it may only handle slightly worse than a puppy on a leash
as far as mileage goes, the length if it does provide certain areo advanatages. suprisingly one of the better aero designs is a bus, for the fact that once the air is disturbed at the front, it has the length of the bus to get reorganised, and close up at the back.
a 350 with a rv cam with less duration builds more cylinder pressure, and with that, it becomes better at the mileage game.

like any gmc van, it has the potential to be a huge rust bucket, and the front of it looks like sting's vespa in quadrophienia

godwhacker

or Ark II.

-whichever is hipper.

moogybaby

Damnation Alley!

moogybaby

@jabber: Just make sure to purchase a tanker, for in drive refuelling.

twilight-arc

Damn, nijaposted with a quote from the builder.

Rhainor

@russdanger: The second axle *has* to be steerable, and I'd lay odds the rearmost axle is, too.

Rhainor

This very extraordinary van has four axles: one fixed dually on the middle, two steerables on front and one steerable on back. I made it out of three vans that I built together. /quote

jdiazj1

The sauna is a trailer included in the auction, not inside the four-axle van itself.

The Monarch

@jdiazj1: I saw that two, active rear steering like an old prelude. That's insane and definitely alittle scary. Still wondering about middle wheels

2001gsr

Now I know... what would Jesus drive!

fluf

New way to torture the valets at P.F.Chang's: Ask them to parallel park that thing

lefonceobscure

Think of the possibilities or viking/wizard murals..

Or enough Charms Blo-Pops to lure an entire school

G for GRENADE

@ps61318: Hrm? The first one was from Stripes, and the second was from the A-Team.

Griffehpoo

this thing is the ultimate shaggin' wagon!

FrancesTheMute

@Awax:

It's not...I saw this on the Travel Channel before

WolfDemon