The Beauty of Beauville

A 1973 Chevy G30 Beauville van gives Steve the opportunity to show where today’s GM Corporate 14-Bolt rear axle got its start. Plus, lots of cool stuff awaits discovery inside! From old keys to catalogs, its all here.

[@christolbert4628]

When I was a kid, my uncle had GMC Vandura. I loved that van. I remember riding to town and I would sit all the way in the back. Speakers 🔊 all around listening to Charlie Pride. 🎙🎸🎶

[@ScottMcEwen1]

Oh, Yaaaa, I love this fellow. He's a wealth of automotive knowledge

[@MrRoman-lo6ih]

Grea job. I own a 1979 Chevy g20 with a 350 4 barrel and Im in love with it. Its a 70s survivor with all the original diamond shaped upholstery and wood panels.

[@edwardpate6128]

Get better soon Steve! We are all pulling for you.

[@dragonsbreath1984]

I grew up with a 1976 Coachman Leprechaun camper. It had a chevy cab with a 400 4-barrel. My dad sold it off in the late 90’s and I heard it’s still running to this day. Without a rebuild!

[@MarvinHartmann452]

These 400 sb are severely underrated engines. I put one in my 1979 malibu. It was a 2 door malibu classic with the bucket seats and shifter on the floor. I loved that car.

[@TheJstewart2010]

The department where I work had one of these when I started there. I was driving it down the Florida Turnpike, going 75 with traffic and suddenly had to come to an almost complete stop. I laid on the brakes and actually stalled the motor. I was coasting on the turnpike in Drive with no power steering, so I put in in Neutral, started it up and put it back into Drive. Came very close to needing a new pair of Fruit of the Looms on that one.

[@albertgaspar627]

i had a Pinto wagon stall out and wrestled with the dead power steering...even on something that light, it was a workout so i can imagine a full sized van. quick thinking on your part, i had a clutch pedal.

[@TheOtherSean]

People always talk about "They don't build them like they used to!!" well, they don't and I don't miss stalling the engine because you braked too hard / long in a panic stop..... =)

[@albertgaspar627]

@@TheOtherSean or the power disc brakes that launch you thru the windshield....

[@galencurrington8704]

I grew up in a 83 gmc custom van with captain seats and an ice cooler in the rear that the ice just drained out on the road.

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon

[@jamesviehmann4291]

Love those Chevy vans! I bought an 83 G10 model in 1994 from a packaging company in Charlotte NC. It was the short version, barn doors in the rear and slider on the side. Best part was it was a 250 I-6 with a three speed manual on the floor from the factory. They said that the engine was seized so I grabbed it for $75 bucks. Turns out the starter was the culprit! Replaced the starter and she ran like a top! Was such a cool van I used it for a while. Then sadly, the motor got tired and I parked it behind my shop and it is now a cool looking parts container. :-( Some day she may see the road again. It is still complete and un-molested for a 39 year old van! No Rust! Just lots Patina and mouse turds!

[@CR7659]

Cleaned up and running it probably would sell for a surprising amount of money.

[@thehomelesswhisperer9733]

Dude that van sounds awesome 3 speed on the floor seems really cool and the fact that it was just a broken starter what a deal Is it still in North carolina?

[@jamesviehmann4291]

@@thehomelesswhisperer9733 Yup! Still behind my shop!

[@granddad-mv5ef]

Even though I owned two of these for several years, I never suspected they weren't body-on-frame. Always something to learn.

[@edwardpate6128]

I knew they were unibody and was surprised when they came out with its replacement in the mid 90's they went to body on frame which I felt was a step backwards.

[@waterheaterservices]

@@edwardpate6128 Stressing the body instead of using a frame is just a cost cutting measure for profit.

[@cjburn2758]

I learned to drive of a 1977 Vandura. I am pretty sure it had a small block 400. Maybe 8mpgs, but it did doughnuts just fine.

[@googleusergp]

Correct, the G20 and G30 in 1977 could be had with a 400 V8.

[@justincooper5189]

The400 small block ended in 1974, so unless the vans got them for a few extra years, it was a 350.

[@mattbauckman9907]

@@justincooper5189 incorrect. 1979 was the last year for 400 small block production.

[@ktm42080]

A place I worked at had an old Chevy van, the only times it got used were to take a 55 gallon drum to get diesel once in a while and get inspected. That one was 3 on the tree and worn out manual steering that kept you awake. You'd be driving, it pulled a little to the left, so you'd kinda have tension to the right. Then it would change it's mind and start pulling to the right, all of a sudden you'd be on the shoulder of the road. 😂 Good times, good times.

[@forthwithtx5852]

My Dad had a1976 van, but it was rear and slider door windows, only. Not a Beauville. Being in northern Ohio, when he bought it at only 5 years old, it had already rusted through the fenders and was “repaired”, followed by additional rust. My parents moved it to New Mexico in 1983 and it never rusted any further. I rebuilt the Q-Jet on that thing at least twice, and replaced the water pump through that slot of a hood once. All day job.

[@Chevl67]

Love these video’s if you’re ever in Connecticut stop by my house to talk cars, and I’ll listen.

[@bodgiesteve8849]

The short nose of the Ford Econoline, was inspired by British Fords Transit Van from 1966.

[@BrokenWrenches]

I just LS swapped one of these on my YT channel. Thanks for showing the vans some love !!!! ❤️ ❤️

[@williamcap2236]

We had a 76 chevy van 10 250 6cyl w/3 on the tree was the first vehicle i ever drove i was 9 my old man let me move it ! That van was awesome shag carpet on the inside bubble windows in the back bench seat on one side capt. Chairs ! My old man loved that ride

[@billevans2312]

I like the grill. Maybe a good wall hangar

[@u121921]

I had a 77 G20 Beauville in 87 thru 88 .77 was the last year they had 2 blowers for the AC equipted vans . Unfortunately the 2nd one that blew the cold air into the air ducts was failure prone and replaced in the 78 up systems . it had also been obsoleted and deleted from the GM parts book around 1980 which is why i got the van as a gift . The only opening windows were those in the front doors so there was little airflow to cool the interior .

[@edwardpate6128]

I had a 75 and those vents down in the kick pads along with the vent wing windows could provide some pretty good ventilation when driving on the highway.

[@kmath50]

This was a popular family hauler. A lot of my friend' families had them.

[@bennettcom]

Wow! The ambulance photo in the chevy brochure has Ford hubcaps on it. Crazy.

[@markp0752]

I started at a gmc dealer in 1974. The vanduras were so fast with those 350’s !

[@davebarron5939]

Wow Steve, you have taught me again, Thanks.

[@randyauer7303]

Another great video professor Steve get well soon

[@jfu5222]

I grew up in the 1970s. With six kids, we always had a Chevrolet van including one badged as a Nomad without the back side windows.

[@ddellwo]

That’s almost as big of an abomination of an automotive nameplate as putting “Mustang” on an electric SUV or Road Runner on a tarted-up Plymouth Volare…….☹️

[@RC-cc4rv]

Get well Steve!!!

[@glennirvin271]

I'm 53. My dad bought a two tone metallic brown and tan beltline '77 Beauville van new after my mom was in an accident in our family's 1970 Mercury Montego 2 door that year. Fast forward to December 1984, when while Christmas shopping, the '77 Beauville was stolen from a parking lot. It was never recovered. That same month in 1984, he bought a red with white insert Beauville van that was the family hauler through about 1992. There were four of us kids, and we travelled all over the U.S. in those two vehicles from our SE Texas home. We were a Beauville van family through and through!

[@patdesrosiers6423]

Great video. It clarifies the “optional axle ratio” listed on the SPID of my 1973 C30 one ton daily driver. It has the big axle with 3.73 ratio. Very interesting and educational, thanks!

[@70sport37]

Get it running Steve !

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you Steve

[@edwardpate6128]

OMG such memories for me. My grandfather bought a clear title salvage 1975 Beauville 3/4 ton van in 1979. Minor right front damage which I helped repair. I drove that thing to Hell and back for close to 20 years with it's great 350 4 barrel. Never let me down!

[@dancostello6465]

What I recall the rust advanced quickly on the two tone paint edges. The windows popped out the sides from below and the latches rusted out around the top. There was a side door step or ledge that seemed to rust out pretty quick. The metal on it seemed a little light.

[@jimdean7335]

My Dad owned a automotive battery business and used these vans to haul pallets of batteries. It was cheaper to license these as passenger vehicles than to license a work van. We did change the ring and pinion ratio to help with the heavy loads.

[@dado8117]

Thank you Steve!

[@wreckerjonny6144]

My mom had a 71 yellow short wheel base van. Had orange and blue, black stripes on it. She hauled stuff from and to auctions.

[@jondoes7836]

A friend & I pulled a 350 engine from a junkyard G30 1973 van years ago. We rebuilt that 4 bolt main engine for his 1970 Camaro. 25 years later and he still has that car with the same engine.

[@ExilefromCrownHill]

The early examples of this body style had bolt-on front fenders. I bought a '96 with a badly punched fender/headlight grille. I bought a fender from a '76 and once home I realized that the later models of this body style had welded front fenders.

[@gideondingle9363]

I have a 1979 GMC High Sierra 3/4 ton Camper Special full size 4 wheel drive pickup truck with a 454 motor,turbo 400 Trans and a 3.73 Dana 44 rear end.It is the last year GM made their vehicles without the computer crap on them and also the last year 4 the round headlights.I've had it since 8/88.

[@johnmcenaney7539]

Nice overview. One cool thing about the Chevy/GMC vans of this era is the fact that they had the ignition in the dash long after everything else went to a column mounted key. I think until 1980 or 81. If you’re lucky, you might find a tilt column.

[@MrTheHillfolk]

I like the myth that the GMC has 1 ga. larger wiring then the Chevy counterpart. Because it's a GMC and they made em stronger 🤔

[@MrRoman-lo6ih]

mine is that way. Tilted column and dash ignition.

[@lab1042]

My '91 Toyota pickup has the ignition in the dash.

[@therealmotorcyclemichael]

@@lab1042 look again, Toyotas appear to be in the dash but are attached to the column.

[@johnkranz4004]

Very Nice Steve

[@taskmaster58]

I had to come back and look at this once again, on our block someone has one of those wide vans, but it is a B class camper van with an extra top on it for height. It doesn't look like it started life as an ambulance, but I suppose it could have.

[@HotRod-wv4vm]

Thanks Steve and happy 4th of July 🫖🚀

[@ericpeterson1965]

Love that Olds next to it!!!

[@mikelaumaillier9271]

I love vans. Had them most of my life. First one was one of the first flat nose Chevy Vans (can't remember the year), then a flat nose '66 Fargo Cargo, '75 GMC Vandura cargo, '79 GMC Vandura all window cargo, '79 Dodge Tradesman cargo, and my current one, a '91 GMC Rally STX Passenger, 350 EFI, which I've owned since '95. The '91 is all original, even the spare, and only has 142,000km (88,000 or so miles) and no rust, no winters since I've owned it. Thanks again for all the great videos you post. Best Regards - Mike

[@MrRoman-lo6ih]

same here. I started with a 1990 ford e250 extended then 1975 e150 custom and 1979 chevy g20. Im in talks with this guy on buying his 1980 g10 with a inline six / no window shorty. IT gets addictive but they are cool as hell :P

[@marioncobaretti2280]

I had a 74 g30 350 4bbl with 4.09 10.50 Corp axle I put an Eaton locker in mine. I had a sliding door with windows only on the rear doors. Had that truck for ten yrs , miss it.

[@ecorey45]

my dad had one of later versions of these g vans the doors would randomly open during turns, and the gauges would get stuck until the severely warped front rotors would shake them loose, it also would do pretty good burnouts and randomly puke coolant during the winter

[@adamthomas9829]

Thanks for the showing the beauville very interesting and informative love the videos you post me and my brother both watch

[@googleusergp]

It's great that you post the SPID label because with the VIN we win: C for Chevrolet, G for G Series Van, Y for 350 V8 with four barrel, approx.155 HP, 3 for 1-ton rated van, 6 for Sport Van/Rally Wagon/Suburban (not to be confused with a Chevrolet Suburban SUV), 3 for 1973 model year, U for Lordstown, OH assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Lordstown plant operated from 1966 to 2019 and was the main van plant with Flint, MI and Scarborough Ontario, Canada also producing them during this time. The Lordstown plant was rife with strikes and was often called "Industrial Woodstock" due to the hippie type workers that worked there. Later GM strikes at other plants were often referred to by GM management as "Lordstown Syndrome". Exterior paint is code 514 Crimson Red. It would have been nice if they got AC, RPO code "C60". LOL. The rest of the options on the SPID are self-explanatory. Yes, you have to be observant in the yards. I've found tools and even the proper paperwork I needed for my Trans Am. I had been searching for years for 1979 and 1980 blank warranty folders and I found them in a junkyard car. My mom was working at a place that had both modern computers and yes typewriters, so I had her type up the owner's manual folders just as they would have been done at the dealership when they were new. At that point, my dad had been gone about 20 years, so it was nice to type his name on the one warranty folder like it was probably done in 1980 (although we never had one for some reason, odd, we kept those things). That was a find. Another time I found the "What Is It?" space saver tire brochure in a 1977 Cadillac. It is the same piece for my 1979 Trans Am. But the '77 piece in the Cadillac was about 3 inches from nasty rotten half eaten Chinese food and the car was on an angle in the yard in the mud. I was able to get it, it was clean and undamaged and it now sits in my glovebox of my '79 Trans Am. Another time I found some Craftsman tools, or should I say half of them: half of a nutdriver handle and half of a socket rack. I brought them back to the local Sears when I was a regular there and the guy said, "Where's the other half?" Laughing I said, "In a Olds 307 engine in a junked car in PA". He went to the rack, pulled off a new USA (then) made tool and did the paperwork. I then showed him the half of the socket rack with the word "MAN" only left. He said, "I don't think you're right, but if the new package says lifetime warranty they are yours". Sure enough it did. He did the paperwork at the register, handed me the new tools and said, "Have a good day, see you soon". Unfortunately, that store closed in 2019. My uncle's neighbor who was a manager at Sears from 1953 to 1993 was involved in opening that store in 1973 and the previous two stores that preceded it. I have many tools and items that likely came from all of those Sears stores. You can still get upfit packages/prep packages today on G series vans. For a time, GM also sold an AWD van called the "H Series". Today if you want a "factory" 4WD van, you have the van sent drop shipped from GM to Quigley and they do an OEM approved conversion that keeps the warranty intact. As for upfits inside for tradespeople, Adrian Steel, American Van and others offer upfit packages that can be put into vans like this. GM (as well as Ford and Chrysler) have many "ship through" vendors that will take chassis and upfit it, getting it right off the delivery vehicle. Ambulance chassis are done this way---in the case of Ford they are often drop shipped to the ambulance manufacturer from a Ford dealer like Olathe Ford in Kansas. Ford often calls it "pool vendors". There are many throughout the country that get drop shipments. When I go away for business or to a meeting, we are driven to it, and we're often driven there in a modern version of this van, a newer G Series. While it's changed a bit over the years, they still have many of the same types of options, upfits, seating configurations and so on. Back then if the "shoe fits, wear it". That was GM's motto. 1996 brought the phase-in of the Savana and Express vans we still have today. Those are assembled in Wentzville, MO with some models built at the Navistar plant in Springfield, OH.

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

Interesting story. I believe that Pathfinder also did 4x4 conversions on vans. I don't know if they're still in business though.

[@bradc32]

i used to work at the Canadian van plant til it closed in the early 90s.GM used to call it ladder frame design

[@googleusergp]

@@bradc32 That's correct. We did get Canadian made vans here in the States as well. Most were Lordstown or Flint made, but I have seen plenty of Canadian made ones.

[@googleusergp]

@@MikeBrown-ii3pt They are out of business. I believe an ex-employee bought the stock of parts/name some time ago and kept it going for a time, but I don't think it's still around.

[@googleusergp]

@@bradc32 Funny thing. My coworker just brought over a VIN from a 1978 GMC van that we used to have many years back. Sure enough, it was a Scarborough made van.

[@TheopolisQSmith]

I had a 1983 12 passenger van very much like that one. 350 4 barrel, four speed automatic. I had it for 12 or 13 years and put 175,000 miles on it. Great truck. Strong and powerful.

[@TacoTraveller]

My father drove a 79 Beauville 1-ton for about 10 years. He purchased it used in 86 to be a combination work van and vacation van. That lasted for about 6 months then all the bench seats came out except the one closest to the front. It was a pretty loaded out van with high back caption seats that would rotate. It was pretty trashed when he sold it in 96 with close to 300k miles on it.

[@savedin87ify]

Nice van

[@stevevogelman3360]

Love your videos

[@clutchkicker392ison5]

Gday Mr Magnante. U obs got LOTS of good stuff, how bout a show on some of ur fav memorabilia? Its ya style of telling we and u know the subject. I kno we'd love it .Fav models, Hotwheels,mags, rc whatever. Just a thought cheers ._.

[@ddellwo]

Had never seen the dash on one of these before this video - echoes of the ‘67 - ‘72 GM trucks for sure!

[@GeorgesMiniatureCars]

Love old school Chevys!! My Initials are GM so as a kid I felt a connection with GM vehicles but as I grew older I really appreciated the great vehicles GM made back then! Other than the rust, that grill is perfect. I've had friends who owned Chevy vans and these are the coolest!!

[@kevincruz4045]

Interesting that the cube van killed the coach based ambulance in the 70s. Great video!

[@CR7659]

Fed regulations required ambulances to carry more supplies and at the same time they trained paramedics to ride on them so they could help people. With the coach it was mostly scrape them up and get them to the hospital ASAP.

[@396M21]

Vantastic video Steve! The side glass you mention in the brochure is not a rare option rather it is the same common dual pop out style as seen in the sliding door of your junkyard model. Don't forget the other passenger models like the Nomad and Gaucho.

[@dupe3d]

Mr. Steve LITERALLY has every magazine! Thank you so much for all these wonderful videos.

[@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561]

Interesting video, I had one of those vans. But more interesting are the two green vehicles on either side of the van.

[@CR7659]

He's done videos on both of those cars

[@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561]

@@CR7659 Guess I need to go back and look for those videos.

[@Bud88883]

I drove Chevy cargo vans from 1980 to 1994 working for a vending company in southern N.H. Ironically out of all the vehicles I have owned over the years I have never owned one. Could have used one back in the mid to late 70s cruising. BTW great job at the auction this weekend. I watched all of it. You and one of my favorite broadcasters Mike Joy make it really interesting so thanks.

[@brianbloom1799]

Steve You Need that stuff I,m sure they would let you Have them, Better you than rotting away.

[@DTD110865]

I see that some of the keys fell down into the grass.

[@jaymorgan8017]

I like how those car magazines stay so crisp.

[@ImForwardlook]

Those 1-ton Beauvilles were fairly common in Finland in the mid-70:s as they evaded the 132% passenger car tax.

[@ddellwo]

A 132% tax……😮 But hey - your healthcare is free………🤪

[@ImForwardlook]

@@ddellwo It has assisted many of my relatives to die prematurely.

[@emersonaz]

Sweet. I have a '79 G20 short wheelbase with the 400 small block. Love that little van.

[@oldsledpurgatory3595]

My '04 Chevy Express 3500 has that same rear axle.

[@joe6096]

My Boy Scout troop master had a ‘77 with the extended length body. It wasn’t fully loaded but he did have cruise, am/fm, and front and rear air conditioning! It was the first vehicle of any kind I’d ever seen with rear A/C and made riding in the third or 4th row on a long drive to or from summer camp very comfortable!

[@paullee2777]

Great video!!! As a former owner of two G series vans that brought me great joy, I must say this is my favorite episode yet!!

[@cmcb7230]

The Chevy express just hit 26 years of production same body style from 1996- present. I do love those old vans my parents had a 83 g20 high top conversion van in the mid 90’s, we nicknamed it the “Beast”!

[@gertraba4484]

Thats all we ran and bought between. 1970 and 1981. Total of 6 we bought new they were cheep and we bought GMC. Van Dura ones too, the vans with box on back were hi. Cube called and held z ton of stuff, our 1974 hi cube was still in service at local flea market even after selling it in 78. I bought sport vans and had a 73 NOMAD USED WITH SHAG CARPETING...WORKHORSES

[@winsox28]

Thanks for taking the time put from your busy Las Vegas schedule to post! Have a great time (Know you are!)

[@genehunsinger3981]

"I'll put these brochures back in the van so they can survive",,,,Until i cut the camera off + talk the owners outta them",,LOL.They'd be in great hands,AND get used.SOURCE MATERIAL!

[@edwardgibson19]

Steve must have the best library of all motor write ups ,

[@gregorylyon1004]

I wish it had a 400 small block. Otherwise it's a great van when it was new. Definitely heavy duty

[@robtiger]

Steve thanks for doing the video on the Chevy g series van ..I commented about it last week.. . I have owned 2 1976 half ton, a 79 1 ton G 30, and currently have a 1994 g 30 window van. Got to have a van 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@alanblack2794]

Had a 1973 I believe 3/4 ton Bell phone company van which was a very short van shortest man I ever had that had a posse rear end in it a 262 6 cylinder with 300,000 miles on it lived in New York drove it for a winter car my summer car was a 68 RT Dodge Charger

[@Henry_Jones]

Gm used that same key design forever.

[@edwardpate6128]

If it aint broke don't fix it! Look at the current Chevy/GMC vans, been in production since 1996!

[@DanEBoyd]

It always sounds like you're saying "Bernondson Auto Wrecking..."

[@KRRZ350]

I had an 84 with a 6.2 Detroit. Was a good all around driver

[@georgejsalomskasiii3048]

You can do an entire year worth of shows just at this yard. I may take the trip from PA to get up there and check this place out

[@davidszakacs6888]

I might have helped build that van! I worked in the plant that produced them from 1970-1998 in Lordstown, Ohio. I started out scheduling and building rear axles in the van plant and ended up driving a fork lift, stock parts to the line in the car assembly plant building Chevy Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunfires up until I retired in 2003.

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Great stuff Steve! You found some collectible stuff there! 👌😎👍

[@thedelawareranch2379]

Awesome!!! My father had a 74 belleville van it was a window van and he fully customized it not many guys did window vans I own a 80 Belleville van my self same color as pops . You could also get a 400 small block in these vans as well I grew up around van as my father was heavily into them awesome video thanks Steve !!

[@googleusergp]

Beauville. Belleville is a place in NJ.

[@jeffclark2725]

always enjoy the video, all those papers that survived, that's is a historical goldmine

[@citationxeleven]

Steve, if you come across a GMC Safari or Astro AWD can you do a video on it. I always liked those vans.

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Neat van with treasure inside!

[@jadesmith6823]

The good old key rack from a dealership or wreaking yard ❤️🙏

[@jadesmith6823]

Of a time of trust ❤️🙏

[@CR7659]

I recall looking at a '71 Chevy van for sale at the Moravia, NY car show some years ago. $400 for it with a 400 engine and 300,000 miles. Guy drove it there. I probably should have bought it. It was out of Florida and not rusty. The dealer badges on both sides is a little unusual. Cutaway vans have a conventional chassis to them, at least behind the cab. These vans didn't get a locking column ignition until 1982. While the body panels don't change GM did like to change little things every so often - they changed the dash in 1983 making the 1982 column one year only. By the time mine was made in 1994, they had TBI, electronic controlled transmissions, an airbag, and even 4 wheel antilock brakes.

[@vettekid3326]

The unit construction of the Chevy vans is the reason why almost all the box type ambulances in the 1970's and up were built using Ford van chassis. All an ambulance builder had to do was order the ambulance package from Ford and they supplied the driving chassis complete with the cab unit and then you added the walk thru rear body. Something you could not do with Chevy, you had to but a one ton and up truck chassis and cab and add a separate non walk thru body. Those were inconvenient if the driver was called on to lend assistance having to get out and walk around the vehicle that may be in traffic in an emergency when pulled over for a full arrest.

[@googleusergp]

A lot of the ambulances by the 1970s went to the Type I style which was a truck chassis (like a CK Series or an F Series), because they held up better than the van chassis. However, the Type I style truck chassis made the vehicle more expensive so that's why a lot of ambulance/fire departments used the van based (Type II) platform.

[@waterheaterservices]

Ford went to body on frame in 1975, Chevrolet not until 1996.

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

First year for the corporate 14 bolt rear axle and, I believe, the last year for points ignitions, which this van also has. I have several square body pickups with the full floater 14 bolt and I've converted the one under my 77 K-35 tow rig to disc brakes. If I'm not mistaken, the 9.5" semi-floating 14 bolt was used under the 454 SS pickups in the early 90s.

[@daynadiggle8169]

In the mid seventies after getting out of the service , I bought a used 66 Chevy van . Straight six , three on the tree , but it was weird because it only had the two front doors and two swing out doors in the rear . Nothing on the passenger side middle . I've never seen another one like this .

[@ryanshevlin_Holy_Diver_Van]

The early model 'no doors' are pretty rare and sought after...!

[@daynadiggle8169]

@@ryanshevlin_Holy_Diver_Van Hi Ryan . I didn't know this . I also believe it had a straight front axel on it too . I have one picture of it with me mugging for the camera standing in front of it . I was eventually going to put a small block with turbo 400 in it but then I got hold of a 66 Chevy ll six banger two speed auto . I built a 327 from a wrecked Corvette with auto in the Nova . I have one picture of it with you guessed it , me in front mugging for the camera . Thanks for your info !

[@nonamesplease6288]

Hey, Steve! Great job on this video and on Barret Jackson. Keep up the great work!

[@normende]

Steve, I am interested in the cars on either side. 41 or 46 Olds??? Love the Junk Yard!

[@bobroberts2371]

Recently he did a vid on the car on the drivers side of the van.. See the vid 1946 Oldsmobile Dynamic

[@Henry_Jones]

I always liked the design of the dodge and chevy vans way more than the econoline. They had more character while the econoline always looked more utilitarian.

[@ddellwo]

Had a business trip to Tulsa a few years back - when I landed at the airport about 10:00 at night and got to where the rental cars were, the only vehicles available were a long line of Econoline passenger vans! Drove that thing around town for about three days and have to say it was actually kind of fun to tool around in - felt like Ralph Kramden driving around Gotham in his city bus……😂

[@googleusergp]

Had the same thing in Louisiana on a business trip a few years back, only an Econoline for our group of nine with luggage. More recently at Louis Armstrong airport, because the person that coordinates our trip couldn't go due to a family emergency, someone else in his office went. They re-rented our vehicles to someone else. Everyone had their cell phones out searching for vehicles (again three SUVs as we have a group of 9 with luggage for close to a week). Somehow after a group of us went to the coordinator of the trip's assistant (who went in his supervisor's place) and mentioned we had "found vehicles at a competitor and they're willing to come here to pick us up" did the Hertz clerk "find" two full size SUVs for us. LOL. Fast fun fact: The one location I called was Enterprise in Metairie, LA. My nephew's 2016 Fusion came through that hub as a rental originally. When my sister first got it, I said, "It's from LA, I know it". When she asked how, I said, "Smells like swamp and wet socks, just like the whole state". She thought I was nuts, until after I was done changing the cabin filter (first piece of evidence) and finding a wadded up old insurance card from Enterprise in Metairie and came in the house to show her did she just shake her head and laugh.

[@markbattista6857]

Man Steve, I would have hoped you kept those catalogs for your collection .

[@jimmartin735]

Beauville,does that mean beautiful town?

[@kc0lif]

uncle printess had a yellow chevy van.

[@grabasandwich]

Not sure if you mention it, but the V-drive 4x4 stuff I've seen online sure looks weird.

[@rheidtech]

Dude...that hilux on the side of ya...😳