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Hotrodhotline Van Build
Pictures and Text By Jack and Maryann Lawford

December 2, 2005
2 Pages

This year we expanded out booth exhibit to include a 52" LCD monitor along with some additional signage which just wouldn't fit in the Hotrodhotline Durango so we needed to upgrade our wheels to something more utilitarian..... an idea we just hated ! Our solution was to get a 2005 Chev Astro Van ( boo hiss) but to do all we could to "Hot Rod" it.. Believe it or not, it was nearly impossible to find a New Black van .... no dealer in Idaho was able to find one for us so we fell back on our Southern California contacts and ended up getting it in Glendale, California at Allen Gwynn Chevrolet. The dealership was great... Hossein Nadjar took care of the sale for us and they had the truck in a few days. Jack flew down to pick it up. This was in early June with the show season fast approaching so we had to get to work FAST ! 

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Jack "smoothed" the van by removing the door handles and installing automatic door poppers and electric windows, worked on the suspension a little to get it lowered somewhat , replaced the grill and then it was off to the Paint Shop.

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Suspension and grill came from Chassis Tech/AIM Industries.

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Doug Batchelor of Dougs Designs in Mountain Home, Idaho is a very talented young man who is well known for his great work on Motorcycles. Doug designed the layout and Jack took the truck over for the paint job.

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First Doug did the layout for the graphics and finished the airbrush work.

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