Step back into the colorful and rebellious world of 1970s van culture, where custom vans weren’t just vehicles,they were a ...

An attempt is now under way to form a grand council of all van clubs: "Association of West Coast Van Clubs; membership 10,000." A bit implausible perhaps, but certainly not impossible.

In the ‘60s and ‘70s, you could buy vans with custom options like that, says Nick Schlabach, a member of Portland’s Rolling Death Van Club. “They weren’t work vans,” he says.

A van is a different way of life, and people have known it for a while. Check out what West Coast custom vans looked like from the August 1971 issue of HOT ROD.

They’re still truckin’ today, in the midst of what might be a vanning comeback. Custom vans were the new thing in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The youth of yesterday, who have become the AARP cardholders of today, will remember van mania. During the late '60s and the '70s vans were the craze with independent van clubs, partaking in their ...

It may seem a bit early to make funeral plans for the custom van, but the figures don't lie. Conversion van sales have plummeted from 181,000 in 1994 to less than 23,000 in 2004, according to ...

I was van mad, and I date myself because the custom van movement seemed to pass into obscurity in the early 1980s. And, to date, I’ve never owned a cool old van, but I still admire them.

The Rocky Mountain Vans club of Denver heard the call to action, and the National Truck-In was born. A celebration of custom vans as well as trucks, the yearly five-day event has been drawing ...