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39th Van Nationals a.k.a National Truck-In July 13-17
The big one is almost here. Expect to see 600+ custom vans converge on Old Washington Ohio next week. The pre-event starts Monday and the event officially opens at noon on Wednesday. Right out of the...
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39th National Truck-In
The 39th National Truck-In will go into the history books as one of the best ! How about I let the pictures do the talking about the 6 amazing days we had in Old Washington Ohio with 614 vans through...
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Article 22
The 2011 vanning season is winding down slowly, but there are a couple of big events left. So that means it's time to get crackin' on the 2012 Showvans calendar. Our friend Arne in Norway is busy...
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The 2012 Showvans calendar is sold out.
Finally got a chance to see the 2012 Showvans calendar yesterday and send out some of the final orders. The printer once again did a bang up job. My buddy Johnny O did an incredible job mailing out 90%...
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Al Brown, 1930-2011 R.I.P
Al Brown left us on Christmas Day, at the very feisty age of 81 years old. Al pretty much started organized vanning in Canada way back in the early 70's and actively participated in it with his last...
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Article 19
If I were 3000 miles closer I'd be going on the Slow Ride for sure: Coverage of the first Slow Ride is here : Slow Ride coverage on Showvans.comThe next Slow Ride is Sunday Feb 19th full info here:...
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Vanarama 2012, Autorama, Megaspeed, Motorama, Starbird, World of Wheels ...
Custom vans are hitting the road once again to go to these indoor shows across North America.Last year was a huge year for vans at these indoor shows with Coby's Vango stealing the show at the...
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Council of Councils this weekend in St Petersburg Florida
Each year hundreds of vanners attend the annual custom van convention called the Council of Councils (CofC). There are meetings to discuss custom vanning with elected members of the various councils as...
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Vanarama 2012 kicks off in St Petersburg Florida
Vanarama 2012 started off today in St Petersburg Florida at the CofC van show. Don't have all the details but I do have this picture thanks to Tim B one of the gurus of early Econolines. The show was...
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Article 15
No time to relax these days if you're a fan of vans. Just so much going onacross North America. This weekend there are 10 custom vans in Motorama in Harrisburg Pa, Pirates of the Caravan is in the...
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2012 Detroit Autorama
Made another trip to the big show, in these parts anyways. Every year I go it gets more interesting, as I get to meet more people that I've met only online previously. One of the highlights was meeting...
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2012 Megaspeed Toronto
They like to reinvent their car show names here in Toronto. But Megaspeed sure reminded me of Performance World and that's a good thing.We had two vans in there. I managed to convince Eric to put MUD...
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Steam Whistle Brewery Dodge, Chevy Van 50th.
Went by my favorite brewery yesterday, Steam Whistle is conveniently located at the base of the CN Tower in Toronto. Was hoping to see their newest delivery vehicle and was not disappointed. Here it is...
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Summer is arriving too quick !
Oooh noo, so much to do so little time. I've been slacking off, well not really but it seems like it when I get my nose stuck in so many things and don't get it all done. Vanfest is coming up quick in...
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Vanfest this weekend, memorial for Al Brown
The Ford guys and gals are in town for Vanfest after being at Carlisle last weekend. So we had another tour out to Bradford to see Supervan once again.As a special treat this Econoline pickup was...
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Moving along
The 2012 season is halfway done now but plenty more to go. Vanfest was another huge success once getting with a record turnout. It looks like we are finally going to get some coverage for it as well in...
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Showvans 2012 Tour, from All Trucks to Altruks, Van Gogh to Ed Beard
This year I did something completely different. Instead of putting all my eggs in one basket and going to the Nationals I went on a week long vanning tour. A few of us have been pushing vanners to get...
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Moon Eyes, Vanfest in Mini Truckin', 2 new vanner magazines issues, van art,...
Winter has yet to set in up here yet and all I can think about is the warmth of California. Maybe it's because of the huge Moon Eyes show this coming weekend. It will likely be the largest gathering of...
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2013 warming up to be another great year in Vanning
It's been a while between posts here but with Facebook, Showvans.com, Vannin.com and Instagram the word is getting out there. Back in March Steve and I got Ghostrider in the Megaspeed car show here in...
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2013 vanning season
It's tough to keep on top of everything with so much social media available to pontificate on :). We're well into the 2013 vanning season and I'm way over the hump of the events that I'll be attending...
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