How they got here

The name of this site is bolted to the back of the Econoline. GROOVAN was on the van when it arrived, and taking it off felt like a worse idea than building a website around it.

replace Write the real version here: where the plate came from, whether it was the previous owner’s idea, and what the DMV thought about it.

The sunburst is the whole argument. Four colours fanning back from the front wheel — golden yellow through orange into rust, all of it sitting on a chocolate lower body that hides what road salt does. Slotted mags, raised white letters.

It runs, it stops, it is finished in the sense that any of these are ever finished. It exists on this site as the reference: proof that the paint in the plan is reachable, because it has already been reached once.

replace Year, engine, where it was found, what was wrong with it, who shot the paint, and how long the whole thing took.

Yellow over brown, spare mounted on the rear door under a black cover, and a floor pan that turned out to be more of a suggestion than a floor pan. It is the current project, and everything in the work log from entry 0001 forward happens to this van.

replace Year, how far it was trailered, what the seller claimed versus what turned up, and the moment it became obvious this was going to take a while.

Corrugated steel, faded teal on the walls, oxide red along the roofline, a yellow timber door frame that has been in the sun for decades, and a dirt floor. It is not a workshop. It is a building that keeps rain off two vans while a person with a wire wheel makes slow progress on one of them.

This site is built to look like that building on purpose. The ribbing behind everything is the wall. The cream panels are the light coming through the open door. The tags are the ones hanging off the shelves.