Himsl & Haas Custom Paint Studio

By the early 1970s, demand for custom-painted vans had reached a level few could have imagined just a decade earlier. At Himsl & Haas Custom Paint Studio in Northern California, Art and his small crew suddenly found themselves doing volume work at an industrial pace, turning out as many as forty custom vans a week during the height of the van craze. What began as custom painting quickly became more like a factory operation. Photo from The Art Himsl Photo Collection.