Do We Know The Person That Owns This?
 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...n_tmnt_van.jpg

I know I've asked about this years ago...but I would really like to track down the owner and make them an offer on the van. Anybody have any idea who owns it or how I can get ahold of them? It will be mine...OH YES...it will be mine!

Picture
 

From where and when is the picture?

Lordy Lou! That is amazing! I've never seen it before - it's actually hard to tell with nothing else to put size into perspective - but is that a real full-sized van or a customized toy?

Either way, yo soy impressed.

I'm suprised more people havent seen this. It's from the movie premiere of TMNT at a texas theater, and yes, its a full sized modded VW van.

1) That's amazing.

2) Archon's Batman villain-esque obsession with Turtle rarities is both awe-inspiring and slightly terrifying.

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all week <3

But seriously...how could I NOT drive that? I DO run http://www.theturtlevan.com after all ;-)

You just want to own every single turtle item don't you. Nice van. I've seen that before but i don't know who made it.

"It's going to be one shell of a show, Batman!"

(Fully functional Turtlevan drives menacingly out of the shadows)

You confuse me for Michelle Ivey ;-)

I just want every single toy and comic...and...well...that van.

*waits for it*

LOL. Win. :lol:

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA You know I was thinking the exact same thing

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to say how astonished I am that someone could be into the turtles (enough to do this) and not a single one of us know them. How does this person slip through the cracks? Not to call us elitist...but....we are elitists! I just don't get it.

At one point I knew what shop owned that but their site was mostly down. I shot them an e-mail asking for a quote but they never replied.

It's Jay Ohrberg. Fabricator/collector of many fine vehicles, owns many George Barris originals. I do believe his website is down right now.

The game is a foot! thanks for the lead Toste! I knew SOMEONE around here had to have a clue :-)

2007
 

You mean the 2007 movie?

yes, the 2007 movie.

Battle Shell
 

Is there any like this of the "Battle Shell" from the 2003 cartoon?

I would just like to go on record saying: I so call shotgun.

Shotgun? Heck, I'm drivin'!

Dude, anyone who tries to take the keys from Archon should fear for their life.

Indeed. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, go directly to murdered. :-P

Oh, fine, I'll man the gun in the flip out side seat.:P

I doubt it. As that one is based on an armored truck.

I wonder how hard it would be to do that yourself. I have a totally wrecked VW van that had been sitting for 20+ years. Probably not the best platform. It could be used to set up a non driving version but man that would be cool to drive!

Depending on where and how its been sitting it might not be too bad. One of my cars had been sitting since '81 before I got my hands on it a year ago, and it's still in good shape because the owner kept it covered but well ventilated.
It's too bad Ohrbergs page isn't still up, he had a bunch of pics of it through the build (fabrication was fairly extensive). Even had videos of it driving around out in some dirt track, probably behind his shop or something. Sounded like it had a hefty engine, not sure if it was actually a souped up VW motor or not though.

Is it a split window? Thats the difficult part of the project....finding a split window VW van that isnt going to cost you 17 grand.

He pretty much would have to in order for it to push those back tires. I would guess It's probably got a 1914cc engine in it.

Just got home and found some more pics on my harddrive:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i7...rtleMobile.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i7...tNinjaTurt.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i7...tNinjaTurt.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i7...tNinjaTurt.jpg

If that's too heavy for you, there's always the low-buck option:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i7...enCanadian.jpg

That is amazing looks like a lot of fiber glass fabbing.

Well the problem is the old van has been sitting (sinking) into a forest floor in South Wester Ontario... not the driest place on earth, so it is way to far gone. And I don't think it has a split window but I haven't been out there for a long time.

Would have been AWESOME... Wouldn't be to hard to make it a split window.