Okay, hear me out.
>Chevy van engine is very hard to access
>Suburban dashboard is much cooler
>Four wheel drive??? Maybe???
>Manual swap??
It wouldn't be hard to do, I think.
>cut off front end of van, pull engine and transmission
>cut off roof and rear of suburban, leave dashboard
>line up base of suburban windshield with van windshield
>weld it all together or something
>patch what remains of the hole for the van engine cover
>figure out the longer rear driveshaft but the front one should be fine
>hook up all of the van stuff to the truck stuff like the rear AC/Heat and the speakers and TVs and so on
>paint it idk
>add cornering lamps since the headlights are now much further away
And that's pretty much it. Easy! In theory, you could even combine the rear of the suburban with the front of the van to create a uh, a G-ban, or something, but it would probably look stupid.

>>28492161 (OP)
>It wouldn't be hard to do, I think.
famous last words

>>28492161 (OP)
>Chevy van engine is very hard to access
It's not, changing spark plugs or even doing something like an oil pickup tube is incredibly easy compared to one with a "full" hood since you have access through the doghouse. They aren't that bad.
They did build high top Suburban conversions already however, many complete with TVs and VCRs and whatnot, so this huge amount of fabrication is rather pointless IMO.

>>28492503
I don't want a high top suburban, I want an unnecessarily long high top van
>>28492247
You may have a point, I say those words every time I need to work on that thing and every time I am proven wrong

>>28492161 (OP)
So the vehicle you want exists, but it'll be a Nissan NV3500 with a 4x4 modification.

>>28493719
>Nissan NV3500
Yeah kind of like that but from the late 1980s and with stripes and weirdly tall but also weirdly long

If I ever get into an accident where the front of my van gets squashed up I might just do this, my van isn't super unique compared to all the other old conversions on the roads but I can certainly make it unique <: