>> Awww C'mon! Westy is an 84 with the traditional brown paint.   <<

That doesn't count, I have an 83.5 with the same turd brown color.

>> I keep threatening to take it down to metal and repaint in a deep metalic
purple  ... and have a depiction of Gerry Garcia rising to the sky through a
double, mult-colored rainbow ... <<

That just screams "pull me over officer." After scraping those yin yang
dolphins, etc. off my van and replacing them with an NRA sticker and an
American flag I don't get pulled over anymore for "suspicious vehicle."

>> And, at the last Greatful Dead concert up here in Vermont, one of my sons

and I sold gallons of ice water and "pizza bread" from the rig .... $2.00
and bring you own bottle for water and 4.00 a piece of pizza - flat bread
quarters with tomato sauce and greated cheeze, no meat. <<

Sure, that qualifies you as hippy but I'm afraid constant maintenance still
disqualifies you from "hippy way of thinking" in terms of van ownership.

BTW, $2 for water and $4 for a meatless slice of cheese bread does qualify
you as a capitalist.

Meatless pizza? Geez, only in VT. Here in PA we'd have to shoot something to
put on top of it.

Bryan