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Shitty Van

   Thu, August 2, 2007 - 10:29 PM
I just bought an '83 Chevy van for Burning Man. The interior is all moldy and stinky. It is so funky, apparently, that my hedgehog was more interested with the smell of my pants than the beetles that I had put on the floor in front of him. He chewed on my pants and then frothed on himself.

For those who don't know, hedgehogs like to find stinky or otherwise nasty things and taste them then froth and lick themselves. They do this because they have a really high poison tolerance and the act makes them undesirable as food.



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Fri, August 3, 2007 - 5:41 PM
On the plus side the mold will all be destroyed after a few days on the playa, and then your van will justsmell like playa dust.
Fri, August 3, 2007 - 10:00 PM
Gutting
We've started stripping the interior of the van. There was this nasty cloth hanging from the ceiling. Inside that was this horrible rotting foam stuff, and under that was a piece of fake wood paneling. It was the same stuff that was on the walls and was covered with carpet and used for the door panels. Fucking paneling.
Sun, August 5, 2007 - 1:13 PM
Hmmm, if it was on the ceiling then maybe there's a leak on the van top.
It could be the moisture arose from body perspiration or maybe the former owners made their own expresso.
I hope you plan to replace the insulation as it was put in to keep the heat out... but you would know that.
You know you could bake a cake in your van once out in the desert. :)