The Great Van Renovation

Tuesday night I began the great van renovation!

The van is a 1992 Dodge Ram and it was the tour van that Josh used when his band was touring the USA a fews years ago. It's been tucked away in our garage for the past 2.5 years now, going to waste, and harvesting dude funk. (I say this with love)


I knew I had a great task ahead of me when I decided to take on this project, but I had no idea just how nasty men can be when left to their own devices!

Upon cleaning this thing out, I found:

- several french fries
- a sock
- random flannels
- two blankets
- a petrified pizza crust
- used q-tips
- tons of change
- chips
- misc. food wrappers
- toothpicks
- a crap load of scratched cd's
- a cue ball
- random tools
- a brown boot that had "dissapeared"
- 2 cassette tapes
- a box of Sub Pop sampler CD's

The center console in the front of the van was completely covered in an unknown goo. It was so bad that one of the cup holders was full of pennies and all the pennies had grown together into one giant penny.

I spent a few hours vacuuming out the entire van and cleaning off the dashboard and console area. All in all things are actually in much better condition than I had anticipated, but there's still plenty to do!

I've begun ripping out the carpet which was a complete mess. In doing this, I found two nice holes in the floor, both next to the wheel wells. I guess this is where all the water was coming in.




Thankfully, our welder buddy Wes said he'd be willing to help me fix this, but first I need to get a grinder so I can smooth out all the edges. I'm actually really looking forward to this, and I'm hoping to get started sometime early next week.

The long term goal here is to get this baby running and to transform it into our road home. If all goes well, summer 2010 is going to be one monster roadtrip!