1977 Dodge B100 Tradesman Restomod Rocks Our Music Competition Desires

• Typically you stroll previous a basic van on the road and instantly purchase it. Properly, you typically do this when you based
  Legacy Classic Trucks, anyway.
• That is what occurred with this 1977 Dodge B100 Tradesman, which has been restored and up to date so it’s now “solely made for partying.”
• A rebuilt 5.2-liter Chrysler 318 V-8 engine helps make the van road-trip worthy, whereas a big lithium battery can energy the TV/VHS participant and AC items for days.

In the present day’s standard music festivals do not shrink back from a Nineteen Seventies vibe relating to tunes and garments. If you would like your wheels to really feel proper at house in that type of surroundings, Legacy Basic Vans might need you lined.

Legacy, a longtime automobile restorer, typically modifies outdated Dodge Energy Wagons and Jeep Scramblers and works on nationwide park buses. For this a lot hipper restomod endeavor, Legacy began with two issues: a 1977 Dodge B100 Tradesman donor van and the concept Coachella could be a verb.

The van got here to Legacy Basic Vans’ founder Winslow Bent when he occurred upon it on his marriage ceremony day. The van was parked on a avenue in Chicago. Given the gathering of outdated VHS tapes and an outlaw nation music cassette within the tape deck, Bent bought the van “on the spot,” Legacy mentioned, with goals of restoring it in time for him to drive it the 930 miles from Jackson Gap, Wyoming, the place his store is positioned, to California for the music pageant.

A Van Made for Partying

“There are few issues cooler than an excellent clear, well-restored van,” Bent mentioned in a press release. “Our new Legacy Tradesman van restoration is solely made for partying.”
That perspective explains the combo of recent and outdated expertise contained in the van. The outside has the identical basic paint scheme however added a pair of moonlight home windows within the again. Inside basic touches embrace a classic TV/VHS participant, disco ball, lava lamp, and orange shag carpet. From the trendy period, there is a lithium battery with sufficient power capability to energy the TV, a beer cooler, an 18-speaker sound system, and a pair of air-con items for as much as two days on a single cost, the corporate claims.

Motive energy for the B100 comes from a rebuilt 5.2-liter Chrysler 318 V-8 engine that produces as much as 450 pound-feet of torque. Bent and his staff additionally changed the brakes and suspension.

With this 12 months’s Coachella pageant and Legacy’s Tradesman restoration each full, Legacy has now added Tradesman vans to its checklist of outdated issues that may be made contemporary once more. Legacy’s Tradesman commissions begin at $45,000.

For extra dope vans from the Nineteen Seventies, check out this list or head on over to Bring a Trailer, which, like Automobile and Driver, is a part of Hearst Autos, to seek for your individual donor mannequin. Or perhaps you’ll discover a ready-to-go possibility, just like the custom 1973 Dodge Tradesman B100 that offered this previous week for $24,000.