So this is me introducing myself. My name is Shogun, I have a "real" name but I'm known as Shogun mostly irl and I tend to prefer it. I am a professional tattoo artist, about to turn 40, and me and the little woman just took our first step towards towards full time van/rv life today with the purchase of a 77 Chinook Concourse.
Found it on craigslist, looked it over, and from my mediocre mechanical knowledge it seemed fairly solid, at least solid enough to give me a start. I have to wait till saturday to bring it home and quite frankly Im feeling like Mike Tyson punched me in the stomach thinking about how I may have just spent our meager savings atm on a nearly 40 year old vehicle. I would post pics but I have no idea how to on this site.
Going to start gutting the interior to see what can be salvaged and what needs to go and then I need to come up with a floor plan that will work for being able to live and tattoo in such a tiny space.
I look forward to learning and sharing with this community, seems like a great place. So thanks for having me and anyone with experience with these vans feel free to throw me suggestions and/or advice.
Think I figuired out pics....let me know what you think
Found it on craigslist, looked it over, and from my mediocre mechanical knowledge it seemed fairly solid, at least solid enough to give me a start. I have to wait till saturday to bring it home and quite frankly Im feeling like Mike Tyson punched me in the stomach thinking about how I may have just spent our meager savings atm on a nearly 40 year old vehicle. I would post pics but I have no idea how to on this site.
Going to start gutting the interior to see what can be salvaged and what needs to go and then I need to come up with a floor plan that will work for being able to live and tattoo in such a tiny space.
I look forward to learning and sharing with this community, seems like a great place. So thanks for having me and anyone with experience with these vans feel free to throw me suggestions and/or advice.
Think I figuired out pics....let me know what you think