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May 21 '09 by bortwein
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It would have been Cooler as a Van - UPDATE: The Series Continues?

about It Would Have Been Cooler as a Van

UPDATE!!!
Wired.com likes the Vans!

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The Vans series looks to continue with my latest Van for the Loves Tron challenge. This has gotten me thinking about doing a series of more vans but using the Dark Grey background in place of the blue. This will allow me to do some of the spaceships and other ideas I wasn't sure about from the list.

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I started a series of Van illustrations. I'm working off of various Movie and TV references. Taking a vehicle from the movie that wasn't a van and making it a van. It's just an idea at the moment, I may end up just making some cool vans instead.

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Here is the Link to my Flickr to view larger versions of all of the series.

Love the Vans @ emptees

24. The Deathmobile from Animal House and it's Under cover Cake Version

23. The Tank from Tank Girl

22. E.T. in the Escape - Elliott's Kuwahara BMX Bike

CLICK TO ENLARGE Vans

21. Hey Hey it's The Monkeemobile from the TV show The Monkees

20. The Pizza Planet delivery Truck from Toy Story

19. Thomas the Tank Engine

18. The F-14 Tom Cat from Top Gun

17. The Alligator Car from Death Race 2000

16. Grease Lightning from Grease

15. The Pacer from Wayne's World

14. Mach 5 from Speed Racer

13. Herbie the Love Bug

12. Batmobile from Batman Returns

11. The red bike from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

10. Happy Toyz Truck from Maximum Overdrive Movie

9. National Lampoon's Truckster

Van Series - National Lampoon's Truckster - v1

8. Optimus Prime from Transformers

7. Titanic Before and After

6. Starsky & Hutch - 1976 Gran Torino

5. Delorean from Back to the Future

4. General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard

3. KITT - Knight Rider

2. Ecto-1 - Ghost Busters

1. Blues Brothers Van - version 2 -

Other ideas I had for vans include:
Kaneda's Motorcycle from Akira
Ferris Bueller�s Day Off Red Ferrari
SUV from Jurassic Park
Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am
The Highwayman Truck
Star Wars Landspeeder
iRobot audi
Boss Hogg's Car (not sure on this one)
Bloggers Ideas I might try:
Poseidon Cruise Ship (Upside Down Van)
Ghost Rider Motorcycle
Green Ranger's Dragonzord
Mad Max Car
The Homer
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Munster Koach
Nerd Herd Car from Chuck
The Partridge Family Bus
Flying Taxi from Fifth Element
Yellow Submarine
Flintstones' Car
Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
Orca Fishing Boat from Jaws
Stuntman Mike's Death Proof car
Pussy Wagon from Kill bill
SpiderBuggy from 80's Spiderman
C.H.i.P.S. motorbikes as vans
Christine
Dastardly car from Wacky Races
Godfather 's Cadillac
Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds
Lightning McQueen from Cars
filmation's ghostbusters car
totoro bus
Bluth company stairs truck
Creepy Coupe from wacky races
Radio Flyer Movie wagon
The Wraith
vin diesel's car in Fast & furious
George Jetson's car thing
Axel's Chevy Nova from beverly hills cop
the car from the beverly hillbillies.
Max from Flight of the Navigator
Colt Seavers (The Fall Guy) Truck
Nautilaus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Star Trek Enterprise
The Wiener Mobile (not sure on this one)
Millenium Falcon
Trigger (Can't you just see Roy Rogers Riding a van?)

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bortwein on May 21 '09 at 9:45am

Sorry, I had to delete the old blog and start a new one. I posted an image to the comments that was Way Too Big and messed everything up.

Anyway. Feedback is still welcome.

Staffel: The point is that they were not vans in the first place. Except for the A-Team van, I just want to do that one anyway.

staffell on May 21 '09 at 9:45am

lol

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 9:46am

On the Blues Brother Van, I think I might need to add a window to the side door on this one and lower the white down to that middle line of the Van. Something just feels not quite there for me when I look back at it this morning.

Bramish on May 21 '09 at 9:46am

KITT

Optimus Prime

Tron bike

Some kind of Star Wars vehicle

tracerbullet on May 21 '09 at 9:51am

PARTY WAGON

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 10:02am

I thought about KITT, but since I'm only doing the Profile View that doesn't leave me much to do other than an all Black Van with similar hub caps.

Something Tron would be fun.

I remember that TMNT van. I wanted that toy.

TheInfamousBaka on May 21 '09 at 10:04am

It shoots pizzas! COWABUNGA

Kookaberry on May 21 '09 at 10:07am

You could have KITT be a front view. Like have all the profile, profile, profile and then at the end be KITT with a front view.

tracerbullet on May 21 '09 at 10:07am

sorry, tiffany, but you're thinking of the Pizza Thrower.

totally different :-)

Bramish on May 21 '09 at 10:09am

I'd have KITT rather than the A Team van. So what if it's just black with a red light at the front?

tracerbullet on May 21 '09 at 10:09am

the titanic

TheInfamousBaka on May 21 '09 at 10:12am

*sadness*

A Millenium Falcon as a van would be pretty sweet. Or the Enterprise.

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 10:12am

Bramish:I was now thinking the same thing after I looked a little harder at the van form I have going.

I'm going to do an A-Team van for the fun of it. I think after I get a collection of the Vans done then I may decide if they fit a shirt format at all.

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 10:21am

some really good ideas. Keep them coming.

tracerbullet on May 21 '09 at 10:23am

you could have a thelma and louise van driving over a cliff

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:27am

the ridiculously loud humming of the pizza shooter would always ease my troubles as a child

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 10:39am

didn't the front of the TMNT Van flip down and shoot something?

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:41am

it did not

just that awesome door spring would pop out from the side

that was too much fun

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:41am

a newer version mightve

but the one brian posted (that i had) did not

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:42am

damnit... now all i want to do is talk about ninja turtle action figures.... but that would set this blog completely off course

Phiffer on May 21 '09 at 10:43am

dear Steve

Plus make a turtles blog, i have a fun story for it

Adam

TheInfamousBaka on May 21 '09 at 10:43am

The newer version for the TMNT cgi movie shot pizzas, I believe.

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 10:43am

stay the course. I updated the list in the main to include the ideas from you all that I'm willing to try.

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:45am

i think i have a turtles related blog... i shall find it, and bump it

drmtama2 on May 21 '09 at 10:45am

The Batmobile

Torakamikaze on May 21 '09 at 10:45am

this blog may now return to it's regular scheduled programming

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 11:21am

drmtama2 on May 21 '09 at 10:45am

The Batmobile

but Which one?

drmtama2 on May 21 '09 at 11:33am

all of them!!!

the question is which one wouldn't you want to be a van??

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 11:51am

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 1:38pm

I think I'll try this Batmobile from Batman Returns:

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 3:28pm

any other ideas?

Phiffer on May 21 '09 at 3:29pm

when can we expect the next van?

Also the little engine that coild

brentendo on May 21 '09 at 3:30pm

great idea! I really like the style of the blues brothers one, what about knight rider? though it's pretty similar to the batman one I suppose

spacesick 2 on May 21 '09 at 3:31pm

whaddya say? is it the new bluesmobile or what?

tracerbullet on May 21 '09 at 3:31pm

megazord from power rangers

TheInfamousBaka on May 21 '09 at 3:34pm

Thomas the tank engine.

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 4:19pm

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 4:21pm

oh, Boss Hogg's Car

bortwein on May 21 '09 at 4:22pm

I'm going to try and work on a few of these tonight.

bortwein on May 22 '09 at 12:20am

Updated with Ecto-1. It still seems like it needs more or I need to fine tune some things but I got the gist across. I also revised the Blues Brothers by adding a 2nd window and fixing the "P1".

bortwein on May 22 '09 at 9:15am

Good Morning. I'm thinking I may try a harder one like Titanic next or try to get a few easier ones done like the General Lee, Smokey & The Bandit Trans AM and KITT done. Probably the easier ones so I build up the series a bit more.

bortwein on May 22 '09 at 11:44am

Updated: 3. KITT - Knight Rider

NiNTH WHEEL on May 22 '09 at 11:47am

These are absolutely fantastic.

*watches blog*

bortwein on May 22 '09 at 2:42pm

Thanks 9th Wheel

bortwein on May 22 '09 at 11:46pm

There won't be a lot of Hood Sliding but they sure could get a good number of Dukes through all those windows.

bortwein on May 24 '09 at 1:33am

Back to the Van!

mike bautista on May 24 '09 at 1:38am

A convertible.

bortwein on May 24 '09 at 2:59pm

I'm not sure what that means Mike. I know I have a few cars listed up there that are convertibles like Boss Hogg's car but I haven't decided if they will look quite right yet.

bortwein on May 25 '09 at 12:51am

I think limiting these down to 8 unique colors as a group is going to be the hardest part if I want to get them all on one shirt. I'm liking the poster idea. No new one for today. Perhaps tomorrow.

NiNTH WHEEL on May 25 '09 at 1:05am

The Delorevan is my new favorite.

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