Has anyone besides me noticed that the G M L'Universalle and a Greenbriar are close ?

I belong to several model building forums . Ive been vanning long before it was popular in the early seventies . I owned a van accessory manufacturing co once . I'm more or less retired these days but I still do repair work on Vintage stuff. I also build the Out of the ordanary . One I tried to build a clone of G M C's 1955 L'Universalle Van . I got the body and half the frame built . I got stumped on a decent transaxle . Little was I aware of but the Secret transmission that was used was the Pontiac Tempest unit , 1961-3. Meanwhile as I couldn't find a suitable transaxle , I scrapped the body and sent it to a landfill. Meanwhile I did build a 1-25th scale replica of the van .





Scrubba

scrubba i came across the l'universalle the other day while surfing the net never heard of it before than but was definately a cool prototype , willy's or jeep also had a cool prototype that was suppose to compete with the vw bus in the late 50's but was also scraped. the l'universalle would be a great model to build, your looks cool.
scott i could be wrong but i think your decal refers to yamaha motorcycles, i rode one back in the 70's and i think i remember seeing them at the cycle shop.

Scott, now that Ive sen the pictures of your Yamahauler , I vaugely remember either Van- Land of N Ft Worth or mabye Classic Van manufacturing down in Mansfield having this package avalible back in 1978. I never really paid too much attention to " Dealer " type vans as they were aimed at mass markets and NON - truck In participants . Even though a lot of my products did wind up in Dealer vans , I wasn't really trying to please that segment. Scrubba

Scott I think Bugeye Bob is correct on the Yamahauler sticker. I too rode dirt bikes back in the 70's and 80's and that sticker was sold at the local Yamaha shop.