Panel vans were icons as recognisably Australian as Lillee and Thommo in the days of disco, and for those not into cricket or camping in the 1970s, panel vanning was a pursuit all to itself, as ...

In the ‘60s and ‘70s, you could buy vans with custom options like that, says Nick Schlabach, a member of Portland’s Rolling Death Van Club. “They weren’t work vans,” he says.