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John Jackson is our kind of guy. As a professional automotive photographer, he’s managed to combine his passion for photography and beautiful machinery into a vocation. But unlike most shooters, Jackson prefers to get off the beaten path to suss out the custom rides that would typically get passed over in favor of big-shop productions. How does he do that? He takes to the road in his own custom 1964 Chevrolet Corvair van. There’s no air conditioning, and the air-cooled engine can only crank the van up to 60 mph, but that hasn’t stopped Jackson from covering 170,000 miles in just four years.
That may seem absurd in a world where modern minivans offer three-zone climate control and can outrun most classic sports cars in the 0-60 dash. But as Jackson put it, in 1964, people drove these things across country all the time. Amen.
All told, he puts an average of 60,000 miles a year on the van, which underscores something in which we believe wholeheartedly: if you have a classic car, drive it. Few actions can lead to death and decay faster than leaving a machine squirreled away in a garage somewhere. Check out Depth of Speed’s look at Jackson and his classic Chevrolet van below.Continue reading Meet the man who put 170K miles on this Corvair van in four years
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