I have no idea if this is real or an advert for something but it is well cool! All tube trains and normal trains should all look like splitty vans it would be awesome!

Even better yet someone should do a stretch on a van that makes it longer than a bendy bus and then try and drive it normally… No? Ok I’m just being stupid now.

Does anyone know anything about this? Is it quite obviously photoshopped? Somebody find some info!!!

I happened to be perusing the ace Retro Rides forum again today when I saw a thread about Japanese vans and campers because someone was thinking of looking for some Japanese vans for sale and wanted some inspiration and guidance of what was around and what could be done to them.

The thread (here) has absolutely loads of amazing pics but I thought I would pick out a few of my favourites for your perusal.

First off have one of my favourite things in the world… RAKE! For a van that is so square this actually works really well and even the white band tyres look good considering its modern-ness (I may have made that word up…)

This has a very 70′s So Cal feel to it for a Japanese van but it works really well and I can imagine seeing it down by the beach with all the surfboards thrown in the back!

The most distinctive Japanese style is easily Bosozoku so obviously it gets done to everything, even tiny little vans…

Slam, banded steels and flat paint. Always a MASSIVE WIN!

This looks like the perfect race car team vehicle, just because something is completely impractical for the style doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done, race car stylings on a van obviously works I mean just look at the picture! Drag racer styled G-Wiz anyone?

My car is getting closer to being back on the road soon but I still have a few months to wait and all this lovely sunny weather we are having at the moment is making me itch to get back in an old car and go for a random drive. At the moment I’m driving a Mk2 Golf, which although loved by many and praised for how well it can drive a track even as a standard car, I find quite boring and in desperate need of some decent suspension (which it will have in a couple weeks…)

I want need to get back in a car where the steering makes my arms ache, the smell of petrol is so strong I get a little woozy and the engine is so loud it scares boy racers and their 8 inch tail pipes. I have talked about how, if my car is still broken by the time the show season comes up, that I will get one of those awesome classic camper van hire things and do a show in relative comfort in the back of a splitty van rather than a rubbish tent. Ideally one day I will be looking in the vans for sale sections of forums and free ads to buy my own but with the prices at the moment that is just a pipe dream. Who knew old vans driven by hippies could cost so much!

Well anyway I’m half tempted to have a look at the car hire stuff you can get, not to go anywhere in particular just so I can bomb around in an old e-type Jag for the weekend. In fact I think I might find all the old cars that you can get to hire and make a big post about it so stay tuned!

In the meantime have a picture of a Golf that I hope the one I drive will look like soon (Except Silver).