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Veggie Van Gogh is transportation, warehouse, and lodging for two artisans, who cross North America, peddling their wares at arts festivals, powered by vegetable oil that they scavenge from behind restaurants along the way. It's filled with Mill Supply repairs and upgrades, including wet-arm wipers and slow-kick wiper control, air-bag suspension, and your wonderful rotating passenger seat! Much more info at http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van -- hope to see this on your website one of these days! |
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A little hard to see but this 1983 Kurbmaster is decorated for Christmas. Billy is a contractor in Seminole Florida and writes, "This truck fits my needs to a "T". It is 24 foot from bumper to bumper with an aluminum body. His goal is to polish the body to look like a brand new B-17 from the factory. (Any suggestions on how to polish this body can be sent to photo@walkinvan.com .) This vehicle has 262,000 miles on it and Billy says that the Mill Supply catalog has been very helpful in repair and maintenance. |
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| 1986 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster - 160,000 miles, owned 5 years. This is one of five trucks Robin Hood Express uses to deliver frozen food to homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants. Many of the institutional products they deliver are not available in the grocery stores and are repacked into a smaller more attractive size and then delivered at no delivery charge. One of the biggest complaints Herschel has about these trucks is the electrical problems but they are overcome because these trucks are workable. The Robin Hood Express Company has purchased many of their truck parts from Mill Supply including: vents, wiper parts, hold-downs and weatherstrip |
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1961 Grumman Olson Kurbside - 54,000? Miles, owned 5 years. Alias "The Slug", has a 223 6-cylinder with a 3-speed transmission. Windows were put in the sides and the interior was customized with a "bamboo tiki" theme. This van was driven from Key West, Florida all the way to San Francisco, California, and back. Over 7000 miles were logged in two months. The mileage averaged 12.5 per gallon. Dan is currently working on a book about van-dwellers (a chronicle of the American Gypsy) and would like to hear from anyone who has done traveling in their van. Dan Pretto, PO Box 1595, Gulf Breeze, FL 32562 |
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1990 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster - 154,000 Miles, owned 3 years. Don from Wethersfield, Conn. uses his truck daily for his scissor and knife sharpening business. He runs approx. 200 miles a week with no complaints, especially pleased with the easy body upkeep and roomy interior. |
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1983 Grumman® Small Tractor Trailer - 208,000 Miles, owned 10 years. Reid from Seamless Gutters and Soffit has three Grumman® tractor-trailers that serve his gutter business perfectly. Running about 500 miles per week these trucks can carry the supplies he needs for just about any job. |
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1983 and 1986 Grumman Olson Kurbmasters - 114,000 and 151,000 miles, owned approx. 5 years. Running about 525 miles per week Gary from Catskill, New York delivers bakery (bread and cake) goods daily to nearby retail outlets. Boasts of the large storage room but occasionally would appreciate better suspension and braking. At one point in his deliveries Gary (without realizing it) pulled out of the gas station right into the formation line of a parade. Quick maneuvering steered him clear before he became part of the procession. |
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1990 Union City Body - 157,000 miles, owned 6 months. Jeff has been in the tool business for 9 years running approx. 500 miles per week. This particular truck of his has a custom built display inside with 40 air tools hanging from the ceiling. A custom flame paint job puts Jeff ahead with the best-looking tool truck around. |
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1976 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster, owned 5 year. Mario is in the tile business and likes the fact that his truck is large enough to keep all his tools in one place and dry. After many years of working in the construction business out of a pickup truck, not having enough room, always worrying about the weather and living in Florida with lots of rain, he decided to buy this old truck. He had the engine rebuilt, replaced the rotors, drums, and brakes, but otherwise it has the original parts. The unpainted aluminum body is easy to keep looking halfway decent without worrying about scratches and the like. The shelves that he built to suit his needs reminds him daily of the trouble he use to go through when he had to dig through the pickup to find the right tool. Now everything has a place saving him time, money and aggravation. He plans to purchase another van to replace this one as soon as possible. |
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1987 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster - owned 2 ½". Here is the story of the "Pig Wagon" and Dan's business "FAT BOY'S Bar-B-Que Ranch. Location, Prattville, Alabama, ten miles north of the capital city of Montgomery. I'm a contract vendor with the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 90 miles northwest of our restaurant and hometown. We were graced with the opportunity at the University while our restaurant was being rebuilt after a fire sour building 2 ½ months post opening day. The "Pig Wagon" is equipped with a stainless steel 3 compartment sink, a S.S. hand wash sink, S.S. work tables, hot and cold water, stocked shelves, plates, cups, pans, utensils, stereo, tool chest, 110 volt circuits and most everything our restaurant kitchen has. We go to Tuscaloosa and sell sandwiches and drinks on the "Quad" in the center of campus on all home game days of football season. Each game we make and sell over 2,500 sandwiches in the Pig Wagon. I pull a "Smoker on Wheels" that cooks half of the Boston Butts we need with the Pig Wagon. Another supply truck pulls my other smoker, and two Suburbans pull supply trailers and carry most of the 20-man team. On the last game day of the season, 40 miles from home, the motor blew-up in the Pig Wagon on a foggy two-lane section of Hwy 82. We limped it to a station, hooked the smoker with meat to another truck, left a supply trailer with the Pig Wagon, rearranged essentials supplies, called a wrecker and took off to the game. With one man behind the rest of the crew went on to set up. Within 20 minutes a wrecker pulled up with the Pig Wagon, backed it into position and we went on to making sandwiches, selling a record number of sandwiches up to that game. Since then, we've enlarged the restaurant twice, signed our 4th contract with the University, and cooked 220,000 lbs. of pig. |
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1994 Utilimaster - 140,000 miles - owned 5 years. Richard from Courtland Manor, New York runs approximately 300 miles per week delivering breads and cakes to retail outlets. He likes the dependability of his truck but the front suspension gives it a "really" rough ride. |
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1988 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster - 197,800 miles - owned 1 year. Vincent from Oak Bluffs MA writes. I used to have a full size Chevy van to perform my locksmith duties. It served me adequately, but I needed more. Now with the walk-in van, I can stand up out of the wind and rain. I have a full shop on wheels that I can comfortably work in. There is plenty of storage and a long workbench for key machines and work areas. With regular maintenance the van should last a long time. He writes that he would buy another when the time comes. |
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Chevrolet Step Van Sunny, owner of this clean Chevrolet Step Van, located in Honolulu, HI, has been on his own since 1999 after 15 years of working for Snap-On and Matco. He purchased this van in 1983 and does all the maintenance on this truck himself. Everything is in original condition except the engine, which has been upgraded to a 454. The walls are lined with slanted shelves for optimal viewing of the tools he sells, Plexiglas cases cover the more expensive items (and the knife hobbyist), and the air tools are hung from the ceiling. Auxiliary batteries and a 150-amp inverter run his on-board computer system. Sunny has designed his own logo and likes to modify the truck to make it more functional than when he got it. |
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1981 Grumman Olson Kurbmaster - 187,000 miles - owned 11 years. Kenoza Vending Co has eleven walk-in vans including Grumman Olsons and Utilimasters. They have found the step van type vehicle a reliable vehicle for hauling their vending machines. The only complaint about these vehicles is that there is no air conditioning in the cab area. This particular van is run about 400 miles per week. |
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1985 Grumman Olson Kubvan - 94,000 miles - owned 9 years. Here's a van you rarely see. The Kubvan was designed for economy and Walter with Kimmel Contractors, Brooklyn, New York, owns two of them. He finds that even though the vans are a bit sluggish and smaller in size the standard walk-in van, they are excellent for ease of entrance and exiting. |
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