LUGNuts Custom Blue Hawaiian Previa Surf van
This build combines a few genre into one.
As per the design brief for the 102nd challenge, the Previa Surf Van is kind of a rat rod. An ordinary car modified to perform a particular function better (surfing safaris), without going overboard on the impracticalties of beauty. I see a great many similarly themed vehicles where I live (on the doorstep of Australia's surf coast) - beware, the water is cold! They don't get the 'woody' wagon theme happening, even though the vehicle type was present here during the period that they were popular.
The Previa also mixes some of Lino's pop-culture island-beauty, hoolla totem stuff too. Lino built a VW Beetle to this exact theme for Challenge 53 - 'For the Love of the Bug'.
He even provided a recipe for the Blue Hawaiian cocktail as follows:
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Light Rum
3/4 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
3 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients and mix well. If using ice, mix the ingredients in a blender. Serve in a tall glass. Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.
Sounds good. And makes me want to be some place warm (with warm water). The weather having just turned cold here in southern Australia.
One has to be always careful with cultural totems - so I asked a sly 'If its ok?' regarding the totem to my part-Hawaiian wife. I don't think she was paying attention though, so it might not count.
I always thought this Previa model was pretty cool, right from the first spy images in 1989 (about the time I received my driver's licence). I had grown up in a family of five kids, and we had a van. A boxy van, with vinyl interior that was white.
A Previa was like some kind of hot female, advanced space-alien from planet minivan - here to blow your mind.
I would still love one of these. Except, it only just makes it into our 1996 cut off for age, so there all probably knackered by now.
This Lego miniland-scale LUGNuts Custom Previa Blue Hawaiian Surf Van has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 102nd Build Challenge, titled - 'I Smell a (Modern) Rat!'. In this challenge, any post-1996 vehicle can be built as a rat-rod.
LUGNuts Custom Blue Hawaiian Previa Surf van
This build combines a few genre into one.
As per the design brief for the 102nd challenge, the Previa Surf Van is kind of a rat rod. An ordinary car modified to perform a particular function better (surfing safaris), without going overboard on the impracticalties of beauty. I see a great many similarly themed vehicles where I live (on the doorstep of Australia's surf coast) - beware, the water is cold! They don't get the 'woody' wagon theme happening, even though the vehicle type was present here during the period that they were popular.
The Previa also mixes some of Lino's pop-culture island-beauty, hoolla totem stuff too. Lino built a VW Beetle to this exact theme for Challenge 53 - 'For the Love of the Bug'.
He even provided a recipe for the Blue Hawaiian cocktail as follows:
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Light Rum
3/4 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
3 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients and mix well. If using ice, mix the ingredients in a blender. Serve in a tall glass. Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.
Sounds good. And makes me want to be some place warm (with warm water). The weather having just turned cold here in southern Australia.
One has to be always careful with cultural totems - so I asked a sly 'If its ok?' regarding the totem to my part-Hawaiian wife. I don't think she was paying attention though, so it might not count.
I always thought this Previa model was pretty cool, right from the first spy images in 1989 (about the time I received my driver's licence). I had grown up in a family of five kids, and we had a van. A boxy van, with vinyl interior that was white.
A Previa was like some kind of hot female, advanced space-alien from planet minivan - here to blow your mind.
I would still love one of these. Except, it only just makes it into our 1996 cut off for age, so there all probably knackered by now.
This Lego miniland-scale LUGNuts Custom Previa Blue Hawaiian Surf Van has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 102nd Build Challenge, titled - 'I Smell a (Modern) Rat!'. In this challenge, any post-1996 vehicle can be built as a rat-rod.