We bought our 2003 HUGE Chevy Express 2500 super extended van in the summer for a mere $1500. It was the best investment we ever made because this thing is awesome!! Eventhough there are 790,000 kms on the beast it runs like a dream. It heats up super fast and evenly (unlike our previous vans that were absolutely freezing) and there is AC... that actually works! The luxury of this van even extends to a drivers side air bag. We are spoiled.
It came with a stock stereo with AM/FM radio. We replaced it with a new RADIO/CD/MP3/AUX/IPOD/USB stereo. Though it has all these incredible features we only really the use the USB because it rules. We bought an 8 gig USB stick and copied tons of our music to it MP3 style. You just plug the stick into the USB slot and voila you have hours and hours of music. It even displays the artist and song name. Amazing, as I've never had anything like this before!!
The van was used for its whole life before us as a heavy truck parts delivery truck (hence all the kms) so beside the two front seats the back was bear except for a ply wood floor and play wood walls. Here is a photo of what that looked like.
Over the past few days we painted the walls white
Installed carpet and installed the sweet fold-down-to-a-double-bed van seat we got from our last safari van. This is a feat because since we got the van we've been driving around with that seat just sort of rolling around in the back. (pictures to come)
We have some crazy plans for this van to make it the most comfortable long-haul vehicles that a punk band has ever toured in.
I'll keep you all updated on our progress.
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