Article first published on September 27th, 2007, on my personnal blog.
Since we were talking about vans, I thought I shoud tell you about another one of these so-bad-it’s-good movies: The Van. And not the british movie from the 90’s. This one is from 1977, directed by Sam Grossman and Dany Devito has a small part in it.
It’s a road/teen movie, about Bobby, a high-schooler who works at Dany’s carwash to buy his dream machine: a mean yellow van. This would solve all his biggest problem: getting girls (’Cause of course that’s what girls want, right?) .
But to get the girl of his dreams is going to have to fight bullies and win races.
The movie is pretty slow, especially for today’s taste, but sympathetic, with the song “Chevy Van” by Sammy Johns playing ad libitum.
It’s also an honest view of the 70’s: the van craze (a lot of crazy ones in the movie), the muscle cars, and like many flicks from that time showing pot smoking and gratuitous nudity.
THE Van, a.k.a Straight Arrow, was designed and built by George Barris, King of Kustomizers. It’s based on a Dodge van, (and not a Chevy van like the song suggests…), sports a male symbol on it’s sides, plenty of fur, a toaster, a waterbed (!)… and many more. I want the same.
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