I was just a little kid as the 70's were arriving. Those first Van conversions seemed to be at the Beaches. Rolling
Cabana's as some called them. Balloon tires, an 8track tape deck and a mattress in the back and you were in business.
Later more of the fancy upholstered ones came on the scene with the super graphics or air brushed paintings.
How all the guys were drooling over those. But by that time the era of the Muscle Cars seemed to be being edged out by the era of rising fuel prices. The Van could offer a lot of other things the "Hot Rods & Beer"
couldn't.
I did this sketch of something I saw when I was about 5 years of age. I saw it at a little country barber shop
where Grand Dad took me to get a hair cut. I lived on the family Dairy Farm back then. It wasn't a Van, but
definitely a view of the "Future" and created some time in the early 1950's just after the Korean conflict.
A tree had fallen across the back on this old Hudson automobile and it was then made into a "camp car"
where it was kept in a Barn most of the time and brought out for week end hunting or fishing recreation.
I've sketched this from memory. As I remember the Car was a dark teal green.
I remember the Barber saying that the original builder/owner had lived in it during some travels but the
Police began to give him a lot of trouble about it and he quit going on the road with it after that.
