1996 Plymouth Voyager Utiline

Chuck Most · 2025-11-03T15:51:56Z

Sam Reeves never had a 9 to 5 job. People would dump off old appliances on his property, and he'd either dismantle the machines for scrap, or repair them and sell them for a modest price. He obviously never made a fortune doing this, but he did pretty well for himself.

Eventually he bought a building downtown and began selling new and used appliances, and for many years he used a tattered 1996 Plymouth Grand Voyager for pickups and deliveries. In 2015, the Voyager was rear ended, and rather than scrap it, Sam brushed up on his welding skills and rebuilt it as a pickup.

Sam had a trailer made from the back half of a '72 Dodge pickup, and after he'd cut away the mangled Voyager body, the bed from this was grafted to the unibody on it's new shorter wheelbase. A piece of plexiglass was used for the rear window.

Sam passed away in 2024, and the business was closed. The Voyager was sold off, and is now the first vehicle of 17 year old Elijah Keating. Elijah found a spare tire carrier on eBay, the old Iron City Beer spare tire cover was a gift from his uncle, and he added the late model GM truck mirrors and a set of pawn shop driving lights. He also stuck on the smokestack... It's just for looks now, but he might actually hook it up to be functional if he gets ambitious.

Elijah is having a blast driving the crude old van-truck around town and to his job at Taco Bell. It might need a transmission shortly, but for now it's definitely the only vehicle like it in the Sickles High School parking lot.

This is a Lindberg Grand Caravan I got as a glue bomb years ago, with the intention of turning it into a pickup. This wasn't what I had in mind but it'll do. Inspired by the Caravan dump truck that went viral a few years ago, I added a Warlock bed, with the wheelbase adjusted to match. The spare tire is from the MPC Sod Buster Chevy. The mirrors are 3D printed from Fast Trax Hobbies, and the parts box was raided liberally to fill in the blanks. Most of the decals are from Gofer Racing, but the Plymouth graphic on the windshield is from a Petty '64 Plymouth.