1970's ERTL Conversion Van Restoration, Customization. New paint/powder booth! Not Tonka.
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
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This week i have an old ERTL van from the 70's. The van has lost a lot of paint and the rest has faded with time. I decided to change the paint scheme to something a little more flashy. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching!
RD
I had this van and a Sears and Roebuck tractor and trailer by Ertl. I used to pretend the van was driven by the Hardy Boys and the semi by Bj McKay and the Bear! LOL! Memories...
I loved BJ and the Bear? Sheriff Lobo was always after him!
Cool videos. Back in the 70s-80s all my friends and I would always talk about getting party vans and what stuff we would put in them.
Great Van restoration !
An old Dodge Van here. Cool stuff. Grew up around these. Nothing remarkable but they got it done.
Very cool! I love old vans, so I enjoyed this restoration a lot.
Thank you!!!🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
I used to have that van as a kid. It was pretty bad ass.
😎 custom paint effects too!!
Nice shiny paint job...
That is a sweet model van! It’s definitely a 1971-78 Dodge Tradesman as evidenced by the front grill and the space between the front passenger door and side door. The odd single side opening rear door was an option back then. It replaced the usual two back doors. It’s an uncommon option. I’d have loved to have this model as a kid. Heck, I still like it as an adult!
Thanks for the info on the van! It’s much appreciated! 🙏🏻
Nice work on the van ..
Love the colors too..
Very 70's paint style looking groovy
❤️🙏🏻
A FANTASTIC customization job!!.. Looks all ready for the next Custom Van Show!!.. Keep up the great work Bud!!
I Soooo wanted you to make it into the Scooby Doo Mystery Van when I first saw it. That would have been Fantastic!! But, Great job though!
Nice work! Got the van looking like it’s from The A Team!
Low key, the new paint job reminds me of the A-Team van. I dig it.
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought, greetings mate
Dear Mr. Sheperd,
in all the videos that I watch (and I see a lot of them) you are undoubtedly one of the most innovative restorers that I see on the web, congratulations for your work and continues to amaze us!
This is almost exactly like the conversion van my buddy's family had in the early 80s. Same paint color and even same round rear windows, though they had a few other windows (tinted) as well. Granted, the interior was a bit different, as they were a family of mom, dad, and 4 boys, so it was more of a comfortable transport van as opposed to a party van. Wow, you brought back some memories for me with this one.
I’m glad you liked it! RS
There’s a van exactly the same colour as your original paint knocking around my town of Melton South, Victoria, Australia. Has large rectangular bubble windows in the back and it’s set up like a business board room. Large round table and chairs around that. Different but very well done. No idea what he uses it for. Unfortunately I know the name of the movie, “Pretty Woman”, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts and Jason Alexander as the sleazy lawyer. My wife’s favourite movie, so I’ve seen it more times than I care to admit. Thanks for the reno’ mate. Enjoyed it.
Had a 77' Chevy conversion, long not the short van, teardrop windows at the rear sides, converted for camping inside, wish I still had that thing ran like a champ all the years I had it, probably still running somewhere. The Dodge conversions were nice too but I'm a Chevy person 100%.
This is an AWESOME RESTORATION 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍
Thank you very much!
Very cool!
Adam
Nice job wish I had your skills I'd be doing what your doing
You can do it brother! Get a project, take it apart, strip it then paint it. Reassemble it. Give it a shot!
@@RustyShepherd ok I'll find something
That turned out really good. I love the red and black color scheme. Another awesome restoration job!
Super job Rusty. Van looks terrific!
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i HAD A 1977 B-200 tradesman custom, At first I did not like the two tone paint job, but now I do. If I do one of these, I am going to try to weld the seem on the hood, and smooth it out
Ficou lindo, parabéns 🥰🥰
"Pretty Woman" was the movie. And I was born in the 70's so I did not (nor anyone in my family) have a van. My father had an El Camino. But my best friends husband currently has a van exactly like this that he's restored...complete with couches, tv, etc! It's gorgeous.
I was hoping he'd turn it into one of those vans with a mystical mural on the side. Dragons or lions with some flames. Either way it looks awesome!
a wizard...or a barbarian protecting a scantly clad prisoner from a dragon...that would have been great
Well detailed like mine was too!!
Awesome 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
my college years in the 80's I had a 1976 Dodge Tradesman, three on the tree, white keystone rims, bed in the back, carpet and wood paneling.
bet it wasn't all puke yellow inside
@@SpringdaleJim It probably was if he had been drinking.
Some how it reminds me of the “A-Team” van? It turned out well though. Thanks for posting.
Thanks! I couldn't find the roof spoiler, the windshield louver and a few other parts to make it a correct A-Team van.
I owned 2, my first Dodge had the FULL mural paint , EVERY candy and pearl color you can imagine, Flames on the passenger side from headlight to taillight, along with VERY BUSTY goddess riding a dragon that breaths fire, and a medieval back ground. The drives side was all space ships planets and aliens, I was I never sold it. the second was all in shades of golds and browns sweet graphics all over the outside.
Me gustan los videos de carros de colección. De friccion
I had one of these Ertl Dodge Vans in my childhood... Unfortunately it is long gone...
It was interesting to see how the glass was restored, because usually everyone buys new ones
Retro Restoration after the sanding, brass or silver liquid polish works just as well. Been using it for years, especially on Perspex
@@shedmanx3640 Thanks for the good advice
I used to have one of these when i was a kid.
Back when toys were meant to last!
@@RustyShepherd Yes, not none of this plastic bull crap they are making today.
Mark Allen Ashcraft Yep. Today’s plastic stuff is garbage. I only work on vintage stuff. The plastic stuff isn’t worth working on.
@@RustyShepherd I hear ya! When i was a kid i used to have a lot of the old metal trucks and cars, if i had only knew back then that they would be worth money today i would have hung on to them, but having to share with my younger brother back then a lot of them got torn apart because of him.
Excellent work. I had the same van as a kid. If I recall right, the decals on the side were of a sunset. I knew 2 people that had custom vans based on the Dodge Tradesman van.
My uncle s was yellow with a swamp landscape on the side and black interior.my friend s was faded blue and sadly In poor condition when he got it. We had planned to restore it, but he was active Navy and was deployed.
During that, it was towed due to no valid tags from our apt complex. Both of us were broke so he had to sign the title over to the tow company. Sadly, it was junked. Guess I 've always liked vans, I m currently fixing up a 66 Chevy G-10 Sportvan as a Mystery Machine replica and my daily driver is an 02 GMC Safari conversion van. People always said I was a lil weird. Guess I m part of the 2%.😋😁
Keep on Vannin !!!
The two cars I remember my parents having in the 70s when I was a kid (born 1973) was an orange Heavy Chevy then a red 76 Vega with a Bicentennial package and a really crappy engine. Somewhere in the mix was an old green Impala too. It wasn't until 1985 when my parents got a VW camper, which I loved. I enjoyed watching this one and I like the way the van turned out.
Like your portable spray booth. Reminds me of a deer blind.
I had that same Dodge van in the 70's. I think around '76 or '77. Mine was all black. I played with it outside on the dirt roads I carved in the dirt with a block of wood.
Excellent video, when you lost the finger to your glove, I died laughing.
Was wondering what media type and grit you ran for sandblasting the van?
Thank you for sharing these restoration’s.
Very relaxing and calming.
Thanks for watching? I use aluminum oxide
A decent casting with good bones...
B A Baracus, would be proud.
Would look really cool with some 70s graphics on it
Well done Phil as always.
Tbh with you it doesn't look that bad as I thought it would
You had the shakes during this build
Great job. I have never seen anyone work out of one of those metal buildings. The one I had you couldn't even stand up straight in. Sure would like to see a tour of it and any modifications you have done.
Thanks David! The only significant modification is a window unit A/C. Painted the roof white and added some insulation to roof inside. Dead summer here it gets over 100. I can get the temp down to 85. A box fan behind me helps also. I’m hoping some of my subscribers can help support my channel by picking up some of my merch. Maybe I’ll be able to upgrade the shed to something better. Thanks for watching my content. 🙏🏻 RS
Slippery little suckers is a quote from the movie Pretty Woman with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts....😁
I have 2 Hotwheels that look like that XD also sandblasting is oddly relaxing and satisfying no? Old color/new colors i like both versions ...
My brother's God father had a Dodge I want 2 say a 76 or 77 awesome van carpet every where kool rims mini bar, small bed & those weird black windows O well. The paint job on those vans were always landscapes trees or a forest or a desert theme nice thou
I didn't have one but a few of my friends did and they were just about everywhere in the '70s. Chevys, Fords and Dodge vans were on dealer lots as well as the streets.
i so hoped you would custom paint the interior to give a good visual when the door was open. Oh well.
Saludos desde León Nicaragua 👍 EXCELENTE TRABAJO 👀👏👏👏
I hoped you would do something to revamp the interior, but am more interested in your setup, tamp and times for the powder coating process, I recently bought a few toys from my childhood I am going to restore, may or may not make vids of it, but would like to know how you go about it,
Awesome😊
I had a '77 Tradesman 200 with a hot rodded 440 riding on 10"wides
I dig your new intro piece !
"Slippery little suckers.' Pretty Wpman
Well, well well well well! Well, very well indeed I don't recall, sir, there was any option given for two tone! This is akin to being asked if one wants a steak or lasagna, only to discover when being served that the person to the left of you has lasagna with a steak in it! Which is obviously better! I did not know one could order a lasagna with a steak in it, or a steak with lasagna dressing!
Outrageous!
On the other hand, spiffy as always RS, couple of spots where the masking wasn't 100% which set my brain wondering what happens if you put a thing with masking tape on into a vacuum chamber, would you end up sucking the tape down harder? Would it do nothing at all? Would it build up a potentiality of kinetic energy that, when released, would shatter the steel containment vessel and kill everyone within a hundred yard radius with razor sharp shrapnel?
Probably not the latter to be fair...
Chap the other day, or indeed yesterday as it was known back then, was pondering on the structural containment of a can of diet coke and the interesting things that could be done with a variable pressure container. I used to have access to a very large one but they revoked my building access privs after the deep-fried chicken incident in 1994. I did discover that lowering the air pressure does indeed lower the boiling point of sesame oil. Also that explosive decompression can spread a deep-fried chicken over a surprisingly large area.
I feel I've wandered off-topic somewhat.
Hahahahaha! Your brain works in mysterious ways!
@@RustyShepherd That's what they said at the last reinstall....
Bonza shaggin' waggn' renno, mate!
Slippery little suckers quote is from "Pretty Woman"
Aww yeah I'm digging this van I'm a van nut like some guys are into super cars I'm that way towards vans and hearses and station wagon I actually have an 86 Dodge full size van I'm getting ready to do a little restore on
not sure if you know, eastwood sells "high temp: masking tape, it allows you to mask on your cured first coat and lay out any design you want on top of it, repowder with another color and bake. also, they have very small buffing wheels for your Dremel , works great on polishing your clear windows
Should have put some shag carpet in it bro. Looks good man. Very cool
“Happens all the time, Ma’am.” 😉
tech question...how big of CFM compressor you using to run the sand blaster
21 gallon central pneumatic. Works ok. If I could go back, I would have bought the 26 gallon.
I used to had a 1978 dodge tradesman 200
Nice but it needs a mural on the side. lol
Great restoration, just got bombarded by advertising.
Nice restore. Another color that would have looked good would be red fading into orange like a sun set.
Oh man! Why didn't you powder coat the black on! And there is a rivot press.
The movie is "Pretty Woman"!
Im reading all the other comments and it does look like The A- TEAM VAN colors.That van on the show was a GMC VAN not a DODGE. Restoration not bad i was hoping close to the original color with. a much better paint quality paint , an A
If a supervillain drove an evil creeper van... :P
Still, I really like it. Nice job!
very nice job. is that supposed to be a ford or a dodge? back in the day they were all very similar. That's before Ford put the nose on em. one of my Friend's dad had a Ford, it even had that little round rear window treatment this has, but was plain Jane as hell inside.Double rear doors instead of the single door. Now one of my other friends had a 60's model Ford van with a Wizard mural on the sides. It had the shag carpet and all that. Six cylinder in the middle, the Hump as we called it. but it had what was called a six equals eight kit on it, headers, different intake manifold, different carb.. ran great when it ran. With rather meager wallets back in the day (fast food jobs don't pay well) we had a time keeping our vehicles going. Most often we all wound up in one guy's pinto trunk back. There would be somebody up in the package tray in the rear, four guys squeezed in across the back seat, and then of course shot gun driver bitch seats up front. The middle of the front wasn't called bitch because that was where a gal would be setting, it was called bitch because if you sat there, you were sitting on the parking brake lever, and it could be a real bitch!
All that's missing is shagg carpet! Why does your painter growl? It has the most unique sound! Wonderful paint job!
The only other thing I would have done would be to have naked off the tail lights to keep them red but beautifully done I think I'm gonna redo my a team van that I have in same scale
Let's see you put that booth back in the bag 😂😂👍
It’s an absolute fight!
@@RustyShepherd That tent looks neat. Is it worth it and are you happy with it (aside from putting it away)?
Pretty Woman
...walking down the street...
Hello my friend,
you really do a good job👏
I would also like to start with powder coating now. question: is the powder more expensive than paint?
thank you michael👍👍👍👍
It’s more expensive then spray paint. One pound, which is full plastic container. The same size as the black powder in this video. It’s around 15$ plus 8$ shipping. Www. Thepowdercoatstore.com
i made mine into a u haul with trailer a friend has a real one but it kinda got singed in a weed fire
no but i have a couple of those ertl vans cool
Not me but a friend had a Chevy van the same color. This would have been 1977-78.
I do think you should have painted the interior. black or red or both. the yellow mustard color really doesn't work with the exterior.
Pretty Woman - eating shellfish
I had a toy van like that. Mine was black with stickers. That weird door on it...
Excellent job on the model but you could have added details like tail lights but well done nevertheless
you could have and should have painted the inside with a little detail
My dad had a real one when I was little in the 80s it was green. Got some pictures. No way to post them though.
Got a 77 dodge streetvan
Should do Scooby doo van
I love it, however I would've wanted with scooby doos mystery mobile paint job.
Oops forgot to mention I do collect diecast cars and I've got a massive collection I've got 4 Dodge vans and actually one is the same yr as this one but a smaller scale and I have a 1974 Ford Econoline van as well I'm wanting to get more vans I'm wanting to add some Chevy vans at the moment I've got 3 dodges 2 Ford's all mostly the smaller scale the Econoline is a larger scale
Hat Rusty, where do you find PlastX ? I've heard of it but have never seen it.
Autozone
by the way I have a color vison problem, what is that color, a cross between baby shit yellow and puke green? (ala American graffiti)
Pretty woman
Wardrobe malfunction?!
Need to work on your glass polishing skills. Also you could have made aluminum rivet type for the bumper
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has a Shaggin Wagon Video on his channel...