A couple is restoring the well-known van that was featured in Blink-182’s music video for the tune “The Rock Show.”
The car featured within the video is a gray 1985 Dodge Ram B250 van with a Blink-182 emblem on the facet of it, and it is virtually as a lot a star of the video because the members of the band are. In truth, it is develop into a little bit of a cultural icon — some diehard Blink followers have gotten it tattooed on them.
Dodge Ram van in Blink-182’s ‘The Rock Show’ video
Two people named Andrew and Taylor discovered the van, bought it and are planning to revive it. They even created social media accounts particularly for documenting their journey with the van, from how they situated it to how they plan on modifying it.
The couple created their first put up on the Instagram web page, appropriately named therockshowvan, this previous October.
“We’re restoring the van from Blink-182’s music video for ‘The Rock Show,'” they wrote within the caption of the put up, which was a Reel displaying the van being delivered to their residence and what it seemed like upon arrival in and out.
Another clip exhibits that the again of the van remains to be dented from when Mark Hoppus crashed it (for enjoyable) on the set of the video.
In a collection of Reels, Andrew defined how they situated the van within the first place. He recalled that they’d seen some images of it on Reddit and in articles, and in one of many images, they had been capable of see that it was being saved at a bodyshop. Upon researching additional, they discovered that it had been at a store in a selected neighborhood of Sacramento, California.
Andrew and Taylor used Google Maps to get a road view of varied bodyshops in that particular a part of Sacramento, and ultimately discovered one which seemed acquainted — and the van was within the car parking zone. The Blink-182 emblem on the facet was nonetheless considerably seen within the picture, too.
From there, they tracked down the proprietor of the car and contacted him. The man had acquired the van from a lady about 10 years prior, and had been utilizing it for storage the entire time. He agreed to promote the van to the couple for $1,000, and mailed them the paperwork to signal — a few of which was handwritten.
The couple had the van shipped from Sacramento to their residence in Austin, Texas.
“It’s famous, it’s a piece of rock ‘n’ roll history,” Andrew informed the motive force who delivered the van.
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Despite being almost 40 years outdated, the van nonetheless begins. Andrew and Taylor have posted a number of extra updates on the web page, and at the moment are asking what folks suppose they need to do to revive it.
The web page even acquired the eye of Ram, who commented, “Well, I guess this is growing up,” on one of many posts.
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