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The A-Team generally travelled about in their custom built GMC van. This is one item of the A-Team that is fondly remembered. There were loads of different versions that you could buy when the A-Team was at it's most popular. There was die cast, 1/10 scale and even larger versions too, that could hold the A-Team figures that were released too!
The van belonged to B.A. who was a master mechanic. The van was sunk in rivers, jumped through billboards, shot up, taken apart, basically destroyed in loads of different ways, but B.A. was always able to put it back together like new!!
Different license plates spotted: S967238, 2L83000, 2E14859, 1K709S8, 2R22100 , 2R22099 and 1AWI247
The below extract was taken from 'GMC Vans A-Team Extragavanza':
The van is a 1983 G-series customized by Universal Studios Prop Dept. The engine is a 350 cid with minor modifications done mainly the carburator and exhaust system. The wheels are turbine style 15" painted black with red accents with P235/65 15-front and P 275/65 15-rear. The main color is semi-gloss black-bottom, semi gloss dark gun metal grey metal flake-top with red striping. Other mod's include- quad headlight conversion, full front brushbar, fog/driving lights, exterior sun visor, quad square exhaust tips (each side in front of rear wheels), and custom made rear wing. Interior was custom-white naugahide bucket seats, shag carpet, and custom gun case in the back (Guns were Ruger Mini 14 stainless steel ranch model with side eject and paratrooper folding stocks-two were modified for full automatic). If you look carefully you'll see 3M grip tape all over the roof for scene's where stuntmen jumped onto it. It also had beefy shocks-air shocks in the rear-to improve handling. Scene's where it burns out were done by spraying bleach in front of and onto the rear tires which creates billowing grey smoke and helps it to spin the tires (it was'nt that powerfull, acheiving burnouts on pavement were difficult without help).
A little tid bit-rumors have it that the show lost its GMC sponsorship when they removed the GMC name from the van completely during the last season. The rest of the time it was on the left rear door but was barely visible as they sprayed a light coat of the black paint over it so it wouldn't stand out so much.
At the moment there are still two (of six) original vans existing that were used in the show. One is located at the Universal Studios in Los Angeles rotting on the Universal Back Lot -tires flat, paint faded, for tram tourists to photo -too bad. The other one is in England since 1992, bought and presented by the "Cars Of The Stars" museum. One can actually rent the van for a day or even a weekend, though 500 - 1000 British Pund seem like a lot of money. It is rumoured that Dirk Benedict was driven to his appearance at Celebrity Big Brother in England in that particular van in January 2007. However, it was most likely a replica since the interior was red and not tan.
Official GMC Homepage
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