For owner John Waldroff, this 1976 Chevy van brings back the partying days of his youth. Overhaulin' decided to plunge that spirit into the present by outfitting Waldroff's Chevy with plenty of modern ICE technologies. To undertake the A/V build, Travis Gustafson, Jason Rasmussen and Del Ushenko of Installation Station in Red Deer, Canada, flew in to Gardena, CA. Four hundred man-hours later (we did the math - that averages out to seven 19-hour days for each guy!), they delivered the perfect party ride.
But that's skipping to the end. At the beginning, the Overhaulin' crew stripped the van to bare bones, making it easy for the installers to lay Dynamat Extremeliner on every single interior panel, a network of Tsunami wiring on top and the Concept gear in plain view on the surface. Of course, the install was a lot more complicated than throwing products on top of products. Let's start with the doors: custom panels built with a base of 1/4" MDF, 3/4" MDF rings and grille cloth. After those intensive pieces, the Installation Station team set to creating custom armrests that matched Chip Foose's conceptual rendering.
As you move back into the "partying" space, you see that the build doesn't get any less complicated. Slide open the door and a Kodak 27-inch LCD monitor straddling a compact fridge and two Concept amps strikes your eye. The install team built a rack to house all four pieces of equipment, flushed in by blue vinyl.
The seating area not only holds the 3.5ft3 slot-vented box for the Concept ZT-124 12" subs, but also slides out to make a bed. What kind of partying does the Overhaulin' crew have in mind? For another trick in the party zone, the team fabricated a false window in the sliding door.
To get this van wrapped up in time, the Installation Station team worked for a solid 43-hour stretch at the end. The nail-biter: Due to delays in other areas of the build, they only had one and a half hours to actually install the finished panels and all the gear! Meeting their deadline with 15 minutes to spare, the team can give themselves a pat on the back. This van is definitely ready to party.