Ah, the conversion vans of the 1970’s! They were such a riot what guys did to those vans. My friend put a DC to AC up-convertor so he could run a stereo receiver and standard home speakers in his van. Shag carpeting and Captain’s chairs were THE thing for any custom van. I slept in my friend’s van… once. It was not comfortable at all.
Robyn is not the type to take crap from anyone, and if you don’t pay her for the work, she’ll keep your van! Note that Lorraine is helping load the van, a hint she took from Bud during the Hemp Island story. They’ll hit the road next for a brief period and then arrive in New York city ready to record and leave their mark on the Big Apple.
I’m also pushing myself on character poses in this story, so it’s taking me longer than usual to draw each page as I sometimes redraw a frame two or three times to get what I want. I want quality over quantity in this story. The previous pages are updated with inks and color, so step back through them if you haven’t already.
And I figured Alice Cooper’s “Under My Wheels” was a great rocker to tag along on this story. 🙂
Mixing Fords and Dodges…she’ll never get to Auto Heaven doing that.
And the Ford vs. Dodge debates begin…
Of course, if it wasn’t a Chevy van, then it wasn’t a real custom van anyway. 😉
Never really cared for that song, don’t know why, I just don’t like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsBPsPl9BZE
Nice choice of wheels! If I remember correctly, that’s the van Cassie bought for her Woodstock trip! 🙂
Well, hello there, Tom! You can’t go wrong with Cragar mags.
Town cops had a Dodge ‘interecpetor’ with a 440 ‘Magnum’
My old man let me drive his Malibu with a 396 4bbl, ‘4 on the floor’ and some ‘fine tuning’
No contest, they could barely keep up with themselves 😉
I remember getting a phone call right after I got home one night saying “slow the #$%^ down, I clocked you at 114”
“why didn’t you pull me over”
“you know why…if I come over there and the hood’s hot you’re getting a ticket” then he hung up.
I’m a little ‘I don’t think you can do that’ but I’m standing on the back porch five minutes later with a CO2 extinguisher to cool it down waiting for headlights to turn into the driveway that never came… 😉
By 1977, the 440s had been relegated to RVs and trucks since the fuel mileage requirements weren’t as strict as cars. With low compression of like 9:1 the 440s were less than impressive for speed, but had the torque needed to move those heavy RVs. So yeah, I think my Miata could out perform a 440 from 1977. 🙂
This was more around ’72-3 😉
The Malibu was a ’70 with more compression than one of killary’s cankle socks
Went to a Labor day weekend car show they had 3 road runners out of over 7300 ever built, 7 ford mustangs, 4 Shelby cobras, a Rolls Royce, French, Italian and German including Volkswagen beetle and van. They used Volkswagen vans for Wood stock maybe Robyn could get a better price and millage. They also had a Mercury cougar just like I remember seeing adds for when watching Hockey night in Canada slogan At Mercury the sign of the cat. The car show could use a Mercury bobcat “It’s got class easy on the gas bobcat from Mercury, Mercury bobcat form Mercury.” The band could stuff themselves and instruments into the bobcat and drive off to New York city of course it would hard on the little car but they’d save money. I remember my late dads ford but latter he bought a Nissan oh the jokes the poor little car took just for being Japanese. Like buzzing with a Curtiss P 40 kitty hawk like in the movie 1941 “Wild Bill Kilso and don’t you forget it.” Liked how he shoots down a twin engine beach craft after thinking it’s Japanese and dogfighting it. But the couple has romance in a tar pit while Bill is shot down by a 303 hunting rifle after all the triple A he took. Or Vought F 4U corsair bombs gun fire, napalm even rockets like 1945 colored film. Run over it with a M3 Grant or M 4 Sherman. Shooting it with a BAR, M 1 carbine, M 1 Garand, M 1 tommy gun, M3 grease gun a 60mm Bazooka or motar, 57mm recoilless rifle or flame thrower. Bombard it with 20mm to 240 mm King Kong artillery maybe use a Iowa class battleship. All kidding aside it was a faithful car and enjoyed driving mom and dad even went to the local airport and saw both a spitfire and ironically a F 4 U corsair. Have you read the papers the queen died she was getting old but I’ll miss the dear old lady like a kindly aunt. Strange for a figurehead but she was head of state for Canada. Seemed not to matter in the 1956 Suez crisis but still I miss her. But at least I have a mom who love me. Prince Charles will be Charles the third. I’d rather have king Bushwick the 33rd from Rocky and Bullwinkle. But too bad it Charles and Camila (Dianne was prettier). Maybe you have the Queen’s 1977 Jubilee the Sex Pistols did even have their album. The gang could play the Dictators the party’s right now Manitoba’s wild kingdom does the same song in 1989.
I have thought about having the Queen make a cameo in this story now that she has passed on. I have looked up her events for July of 1977 and she was nowhere near the USA, so I will have to come up with another way to bring her in for a quick cameo. However I do it, I’ll be as respectful as I can with her appearance. She was the Queen for 70 years regardless of what people say or think about her.
Incidentally I saw two 1979 AMC dusters even glib neon TV ads in the 1980s couldn’t save AMC “My duster on those MTV ads”. So plan 9 are wise not have a AMC rambler or they could have Diesel’s 1980 summer in Sausalito $80 in repair, engine pounding like a disco and we ought to dump it in the bay. Then again Jeff could be Jenny and have drivers seat like Stuff n Tears. Saw Dodge viper, demon, charger, viscount even challenger just like Al Bundy’s car. Al wisely says to his wife about sex no only after Kelly and Bud. Kelly is cute with blond hair, button noise sweet smile with sexy clothes and shoes love dressing like her. Bud on the other hand is just Bud horny and doomed. The car show had a 1929 flatbed truck while having rat rods one even had rat fink from Big Daddy Hoth. Another had the American second amendment as homeland security never argued it was for a well regulated militia. Anyway they had coffins, skeletons and racing car wheels you almost expected the count from TVs hot rides. A sun burned Elvira vampires hate sun burn learn something new. Or a neutered Wolfman Jack with a bow in his hair wearing pink doggie boots and tutu. I could be the wicked witch of the west in a low sexy voice “I’m so wicked I don’t need black magic”. Like dog witch’s sister Blue Bell she cute girl who endures a witch who looks like Alice Cooper it is a comic about a evil English witch. Great for Halloween theme change from pirates and zombies. Go Mac Beth have Buddet, Lorraine and Robyn as sexy witches mini dresses, corsets, bikinis, thigh highs and heels (went as a surf witch one Halloween in a black on piece swimsuit and knee high boots) torturing Jeff that I gotta see. Think in Canada they’ll replace the queen with king Charles the third not king Bushwick the 33rd but at least no Camilia so no brown paper bag.
One of the first things that popped into my head was a “someone’s going to play the sex pistols as a ‘tribute’.
I’m having trouble thinking of something more disrespectful at the moment but I’m sure there’s a few.
My family hails from London back in the 1700’s… just about the time she became Queen. 🙂
On one side I can trace back to Ireland in the 1400’s, then back to Scotland in the 900’s, possibly earlier, we even have a hardcover book published for that side.
On another only to around the early 1900’s, the records were lost along with most of the family when Lithuania came under nazi and then soviet rule and Jews were 95% exterminated. The immigration records here are ‘imprecise’ to say the least, the name is spelled at least four different ways in various ‘official’ documents.
Other lines are English mostly with a few interesting bits thrown into the pot.
All that said, we’re still a Monarchy up here so…
“The Queen is dead, long live the King !!!”