**Cammoguy de-cloaking** Greetings to all my earth brothers and sisters from the Oregon coast.
I have a question for all y'all. I've owned 2 GMC Safari cargo vans in the past and just did some horse tradin' to get a 1998 Astro passenger van. It runs real good but the interior is trashed.
My first Safari was used for general hauling stuff around and going to work. I loved that van but gave it to my brother when he needed a truck to get a job. (Better to lose a van than gain a permanent couch resident.)
The second was a shorty ex-beer delivery rig that I bought for $1400, built a bed in it, rolled on a couple of coats of flat olive drab latex house paint and did a 10,000 mile trip around the USA, pulling a motorcycle trailer. Never a lick of trouble the whole way. Averaged 20 MPG and got a lot of interest in the paint job.
But I digress. I do that a lot as I'm getting to be an old guy...hell, I AM an old guy I guess. Let's see, where was I?
Oh yeah, the interior on my van is pretty grimy and I was thinking of pulling off the formed-plastic-impossible-to-clean-cup-holders-and-cubby-holes that are attached underneath the windows. I want to go old school (as you whippersnappers say) and put some wood panelling on both sides. I'm not sure if wood will fit in with the rest of the interior so I may use that gray fuzzy board stuff, whatever you call it.
If I manage to get all that stuff off, is there anything under there that will trip me up in my endeavor?
Thanks to that thread about the Amazing Folding Bed, I learned about deck covering and have decided to find some of that to replace the carpeting. (At least I think it's carpet under all the gunk.)
Also thanks to the thread about replacing the door armrest, I got a clue on how the panels are held on before they completely fall off. My driver side electric window sometimes doesn't work. The PO told me to just whack the door panel and she'll fly. It works but geesh....LOL!
I'd like to do another road trip around the USA this year so I guess I'll be camperizing the van but keeping the ability to snap in the back seat once in a while so I can carry my buds out to the shootin' range.
Anyhow, thanks in advance for any info and for all the info I've gleaned here over the years.
I have a question for all y'all. I've owned 2 GMC Safari cargo vans in the past and just did some horse tradin' to get a 1998 Astro passenger van. It runs real good but the interior is trashed.
My first Safari was used for general hauling stuff around and going to work. I loved that van but gave it to my brother when he needed a truck to get a job. (Better to lose a van than gain a permanent couch resident.)
The second was a shorty ex-beer delivery rig that I bought for $1400, built a bed in it, rolled on a couple of coats of flat olive drab latex house paint and did a 10,000 mile trip around the USA, pulling a motorcycle trailer. Never a lick of trouble the whole way. Averaged 20 MPG and got a lot of interest in the paint job.
But I digress. I do that a lot as I'm getting to be an old guy...hell, I AM an old guy I guess. Let's see, where was I?
Oh yeah, the interior on my van is pretty grimy and I was thinking of pulling off the formed-plastic-impossible-to-clean-cup-holders-and-cubby-holes that are attached underneath the windows. I want to go old school (as you whippersnappers say) and put some wood panelling on both sides. I'm not sure if wood will fit in with the rest of the interior so I may use that gray fuzzy board stuff, whatever you call it.
If I manage to get all that stuff off, is there anything under there that will trip me up in my endeavor?
Thanks to that thread about the Amazing Folding Bed, I learned about deck covering and have decided to find some of that to replace the carpeting. (At least I think it's carpet under all the gunk.)
Also thanks to the thread about replacing the door armrest, I got a clue on how the panels are held on before they completely fall off. My driver side electric window sometimes doesn't work. The PO told me to just whack the door panel and she'll fly. It works but geesh....LOL!
I'd like to do another road trip around the USA this year so I guess I'll be camperizing the van but keeping the ability to snap in the back seat once in a while so I can carry my buds out to the shootin' range.
Anyhow, thanks in advance for any info and for all the info I've gleaned here over the years.