New Ride for Spring

A good friend of the my family built this in the late 80's early 90's. Since I was a little kid I sweated this thing. Bill sold the truck in the mid 90's and occasionally I would see it around then it disappeared ..fast forward to a few months ago Bill bought the truck back. I stopped by his house one day and we got to talkin about the truck. Bill just turned 80 years old and knows how much I've always loved it. A deal was struck and I'm now the owner...

The truck is based on a 77 B300 1 ton ambulance chassis mated with a 80's Dodge Maxi Van. Eventually I'd like to find a the proper Dodge dually bed but for now plans involve new tires for some rubber rake and dual exhaust with glass packs

Update: The Sentimental Van Project

Determined not to go through another 30 year restoration my dad and I have been really digging into the 66 A100. He has been doing most the work with me being an extra set of hands. After he stripped the interior and stainless he and I pulled the engine and all the glass. Next week I take the truck to get blasted and epoxy primed. I'm pretty stoked to see dad excited about his truck.*Note the use of the Fire helmet shell for a wheel-chock and the ridiculous use of two tires and a 1x6 for the Slant 6 to rest on*

New/Old Project

My dad has been storing this van since I was a kid. It was my Grandfather's van and my dad drove it all through high school. My grandfather died before I was born and at a fairly young age in April of 1976. It hit my dad particularly hard. This van means a lot to my Dad. It's a physical connection to his father that is unchanged or altered by time...I would say it means a lot to me too..

For years the van has sat with the occasional shuffle from one garage to another. Over the past few years my dad has talked more and more about getting the van on the road. A loss of current storage has been the catalyst to get it back on the road.

My dad has always talked about mildly hot rodding it. In fact in high school he ran bigs and littles on it and could chirp the tires on it in 2nd gear. Last year I picked up another 66 A100 van with a 360 dropped in it. The plan was to originally to drop the 360 into this van but after some consideration we have decided to stick with the 225 Slant Six. The paint and body will remain largely unmodified. We are going to keep the color scheme. The only big change beyond the hopped Slant 6 will be stance/tire and wheel combo. My dad is leaning towards a little rake with mopar police rims and am leaning toward a lowered stance with astro supremes and skinny whites.

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I snapped a few pix of the truck the other night. The rear air shocks were empty they aren't holding air worth a damn. So the ass end is about 2" lower than normal. I'm still gonna put a 2" drop axle to bring the front end down a little lower. But overall I'm happy with the drop. I threw in a before pic too