- Hey you guys.
Shawn with Custom Offsets, Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube.
Got another vehicle spotlight for you.
This is gonna be my 2002 Chevy Astro minivan
modeled after Menace II Society drive-by minivan
with Daytons.
If you don't know what I'm talking about,
you need to get some culture, son.
Let's go!
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♪ Big trucks, take down ♪
♪ Brother did you what ♪
♪ And it breaks down ♪
♪ Rims so big and the windows black ♪
♪ Got the lights all lit up ♪
♪ Double chrome down stacks ♪
♪ Can't let them get dirty ♪
♪ But still they so clean ♪
♪ Custom offsets ♪
♪ There's a genie on top of it ♪
♪ Now we ain't never gonna face ♪
♪ So you better get ready ♪
♪ They're taking over the game ♪
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So like I said this is a 2002 Astro minivan.
When I got it, it was pure white, didn't have anything cool.
It was just totally stock.
But because I grew up in the mid to late '90s
obsessing about Tupac, Biggie Smalls,
and watching Friday and Menace II Society,
I had to build the replica van from the Menace II Society.
I know theirs was a Ford Aerostar,
but the closest thing I could find
that I liked the styling of was the Chevy Astro.
It's a 2002.
It's gonna be stock suspension.
We were gonna put it on bags, but we need all-wheel drive
because we're up here in a frozen dessert.
We need this to be able to do our videos
as far as our rolling shots and whatnot.
So she's all-wheel drive.
So we stuck with stock suspension.
For wheels on the front, we've got 15 by eights
that are the standard offset.
These are real Daytons.
The way Daytons do it is they basically have
three different offsets.
Standard being the middle one, the standard offset.
You'll see that it's got a good sized lip on it
especially for a 15 by eight
because that is the Dayton wire wheel life.
You'll see that she's gonna be
right around four inches a lip,
almost four and a half probably.
It's got that multi-level lip
which was super popular back in the day.
And yes, these are real knock-off Daytons.
It's got the adapters and then the knock-offs.
This is holding the entire wheel on.
You take that off and the wheel comes off.
It's got an adapter behind it that facilitates that.
As far as the tires on the front, we're running a ...
I am so frozen, I can't even remember anything.
A 215/65/R15.
That's definitely bigger than a stock size.
It rubbed a little bit on the back
but were able to trim that away.
Little bit on the front up in here
which we trimmed that away, got that to clear.
There's a 15 by nine and a half standard.
This is the well wire.
You'll see that it's got
the inner-laced wire on the Daytons.
This one's gonna be deeper because it's a staggered set-up.
So these are nine wides in the rear.
You'll notice that they're powder coated,
some sort of crazy gold translucent.
You kind of see the polish through there.
That's gonna be about five and a half inches of lip.
Nice big deep lip wheel.
Then again with the knock-offs, some spike valve stems.
I believe we went with the same tire size, yeah.
215/65/R15 on the rear as well.
The rear is clear but it doesn't clear the door.
When we open the door, it kind of smashes into the wheel,
but it looks really sick.
That's all we care about.
Front to back.
You'll see we went with the Billet bar grille, aftermarket.
That is gonna be all gold powder coat as well.
We gold out the emblem.
We went with the clear front lights.
Everything's been painted.
The entire van is painted in a deep maroon
which was awesome back in the '90s.
Then we put a gold metal flake in there
that you can really see on a nice sunny day.
On the rear, tinted out the tail lights,
a weld-in roll pan, completely body-worked
to give it that totally flush, disappear rear bumper.
Of course, the BroMedia decal
because that is the nickname of our media team.
Sport mirrors painted to match upfront.
A little bit of maroon with the gold.
Inside it's pretty much stock
other than the Tupac air freshener, the infamous tree,
and of course fuzzy dice because '90s.
Other than that, she's pretty much stock inside.
I can show you the clearance
just in case you run the similar set-up.
Unless if the door is frozen,
then I won't be able to show you that.
You'll see back here that it's gonna hit.
We're considering modifying that
or just going a little bit in with the wheels.
We got a little aggressive on the rear staggered set-up.
You'll see it's pretty well stock
other than that on the inside.
So that is our 2002 Chevy Astro minivan,
stock suspension with some real knock-off Daytons,
powdered gold, and some of the extra fixings
to look like the Menace II Society roll-by shooting van.
If you don't know what that is, go watch that movie tonight.
Get yourself some culture, peace.
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