• Typically you stroll previous a traditional van on the road and instantly purchase it. Properly, you generally try this in the event you based Legacy Traditional Vehicles, anyway.
• That is what occurred with this 1977 Dodge B100 Tradesman, which has been restored and up to date so it’s now “completely made for partying.”
• A rebuilt 5.2-liter Chrysler 318 V-8 engine helps make the van road-trip worthy, whereas a big lithium battery can energy the TV/VHS participant and AC models for days.

Immediately’s fashionable music festivals do not draw back from a Nineteen Seventies vibe in terms of tunes and garments. If you’d like your wheels to really feel proper at residence in that kind of surroundings, Legacy Traditional Vehicles may need you coated.

Legacy, a longtime car restorer, typically modifies previous Dodge Energy Wagons and Jeep Scramblers and works on nationwide park buses. For this a lot hipper restomod endeavor, Legacy began with two issues: a 1977 Dodge B100 Tradesman donor van and the concept that Coachella is usually a verb.

The van got here to Legacy Traditional Vehicles’ founder Winslow Bent when he occurred upon it on his marriage ceremony day. The van was parked on a avenue in Chicago. Given the gathering of previous VHS tapes and an outlaw nation music cassette within the tape deck, Bent bought the van “on the spot,” Legacy stated, with goals of restoring it in time for him to drive it the 930 miles from Jackson Gap, Wyoming, the place his store is situated, to California for the music pageant.

A Van Made for Partying

“There are few issues cooler than a brilliant clear, well-restored van,” Bent stated in a press release. “Our new Legacy Tradesman van restoration is completely made for partying.”
That perspective explains the combo of latest and previous expertise contained in the van. The outside has the identical traditional paint scheme however added a pair of moonlight home windows within the again. Inside traditional touches embrace a classic TV/VHS participant, disco ball, lava lamp, and orange shag carpet. From the fashionable period, there is a lithium battery with sufficient vitality capability to energy the TV, a beer cooler, an 18-speaker sound system, and a pair of air con models for as much as two days on a single cost, the corporate claims.

Motive energy for the B100 comes from a rebuilt 5.2-liter Chrysler 318 V-8 engine that produces as much as 450 pound-feet of torque. Bent and his workforce additionally changed the brakes and suspension.

With this yr’s Coachella pageant and Legacy’s Tradesman restoration each full, Legacy has now added Tradesman vans to its record of previous issues that may be made contemporary once more. Legacy’s Tradesman commissions begin at $45,000.

For extra dope vans from the Nineteen Seventies, take a look at this record or head on over to Convey a Trailer, which, like Automobile and Driver, is a part of Hearst Autos, to seek for your individual donor mannequin. Or possibly you’ll discover a ready-to-go choice, just like the customized 1973 Dodge Tradesman B100 that offered this previous week for $24,000.

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Sebastian Blanco has been writing about electrical automobiles, hybrids, and hydrogen automobiles since 2006. His articles and automotive evaluations have appeared within the New York Instances, Automotive Information, Reuters, SAE, Autoblog, InsideEVs, Vehicles.com, Automobile Speak, and different shops. His first green-car media occasion was the launch of the Tesla Roadster, and since then he has been monitoring the shift away from gasoline-powered automobiles and discovering the brand new expertise’s significance not only for the auto business, however for the world as a complete. Throw within the current shift to autonomous automobiles, and there are extra attention-grabbing adjustments occurring now than most individuals can wrap their heads round. You could find him on Twitter or, on good days, behind the wheel of a brand new EV.