lake washington

i walk by these caged cars all the time and today i took some pix, i know their not vans- so don't get all huffy and write me hate mail and tell me how i've sold out.

you can tell from the photo that someone obviously backed this beast in, they even left the wipers at full on 12 o'clock, then they put up the fence threw the keys into the toilet and never drove again.

maybe they started walking, like i have, this one got all munched recently, even with the anti-bad kid fence, it looks like a sinking ship, going down. man, this is a great driveway story- i can see it all, the fear- the fence salesman, the old people getting older some blind guy trying to drive it out of the driveway with four flats and a flat bottle

on the other hand this poor guy was just looking for kids, but they're all at school, fool, and your parked all wrong, but i must have a thing for bomb pop art, really eye catching, i came running, but not for ice cream-

my walk today

these guys have been rolling around for years in my hood, but you know i've never seen anyone go in or out, ghosts ? i love the battleship grey paint and the fact that they harvest rainwater off the roof gutters, maybe they have an aquarium inside, now that would be pimp.

this one's for toby, because he drove one very similar to this, i think a teacher drives this little hussy+4wd and cute little red decal- very nice van

this is where i want to wake up, on an incline wrapped in pure 1975 mini-winnie- all brown, avocado and burnt orange- down some quasi-industrial stretch of my part of town

parked a respectfully not gay distance away from the puckered rear end of some short bus, pictured above.

i just liked this little bay window, with really exaggerated bubble top, very clean and cared for, no neo- hippy dirtbags here.

sorry, but i don't believe there is even such a thing as the central area chamber of commerce- do you ? but, if so, why is their red van such a piece of shit ? no offense

this van i featured a few weeks ago, from craigs list and then bammm it's parked two blocks from my house and it is so cool, a little kitchen, a little table- adorable and yes, original mopar wheel covers.

these two vans parked bumper to bumper remind me of some fucked up van version of our flag.

all photo's taken today, on one walk- that's how many creeper, van livers, i could find, besides the old guy, handicapped asleep, in the smushed back, front seat, and behind him some lady staring me down as she performed some nefarious acts in a blacked out chevy, i didn't take pictures of that. i don't really like taking pictures of people.

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SPLITTY SITTING UNDER TREE

look at the beauty, parked super primo, with safety cones to keep the kids back, under a fine glaze of mold dust and grime, but just look, the tires are full, and the tabs have just expired, i'm going back to leave a cash down payment,stuck under a wiper blade- i want this gem- the tiny kitchen pop-top has double sky lights, one of the sweetest free range dubs i've seen, wild-unmolested rusting in a parking lot oh oh- i forgot, look at the photo, even the highly stolen front emblem is there.

i want it

i want it-

to sit in my drive-way and rot, rust and roll

commer mini bus rv

this bus had been parked over by shoot out park a few years ago and i had ogled it for weeks until it had disappeared,

well, now, my ace photographer Henry, found it parked in Ballard, and now it looks like someone has turned it into a mobile house, very sweet, Ballard's a great place to live in a bus, and from the future, all the fisherman do, we all should, this one has a lot of windows though, fishbowl living in a hothouse would be my fear. creepers and hot, icky.

funny, i remember the Commer name only from matchbox cars, and Kent, my east coast car expert and mechanic in demolition derby daring.

great find Henry, i hope these bus dwellers come out camping at the beach this year, instead of on the streets, if it moves, i wonder if it has a little four banger diesel ?

i really like the futuristic shape and design, like a playland trolley, an abandoned airport shuttle- i can see drunk cosmonauts smoking cigarettes in the back with monkeys and Kalashnikovs, but really, in Ballard.

this is a bedroom community, yeah, in a bus, so cool, daddy.

the more i walk the more crap i see

love this chevy, but i think some hipsters own it- they don't live in it. really love the washed out paint job and the little chimney, so cute, with original hub caps too !

this van used to be complete, until a few years ago, and this psycho started hacking at it to make some kinda truck hybrid,with a roof thingy, so-so crazy, the garage behind the splitty is full of parts and bikes and crap, he drives this around town though which is nice

parked in front of the destroyed splitty is a beat down original corvair van i think, mid engine, low and just fantastic-but really needs a restoration, or maybe just a grinder and sawsall too.

vanagon painting

this painting is part of my 100th Posting party this is also a painting of a vanagon parked on the grassy knoll that is Hobuck beach campground-i missed neahbay this winter, a whole surf season lost to injury.

going postal with white walls

i think this jeepette lives a parallel life to mine, i see this freaking crazy ride everywhere, it's so pimp with those whack white walls and third world paint and pinstripes, i know it's not a van, but it's so far out there, i've been waiting to find it, so i could snap this shot-you like ?

i haven't seen the driver yet, i can't wait- what a surprise it'll be.

maybe i need to get a job.