Certain vehicles are amazingly evocative of time and place. Can you picture a Chevy Vega without thinking of it lined up for fuel during the gas crisis? And here’s another Chevy, a 1979 G20 custom conversion van, that takes me instantly back to the days of shag carpets and eight-track tapes. It looks like a time capsule, but this van on eBay in Wattsburgh, Pennsylvania with a $10,000 Buy It Now price here on eBay is actually a loving recreation from a frayed original, done eight years ago.

Remember “Don’t Come Knockin’ When This Van’s Rockin’”? This van, with an amazing multi-colored metal-flake paint job, is the very embodiment. It’s a boudoir on wheels. The van is carpeted in inch-thick blood-red shag, with the sides and ceiling in 1.5-inch cut pile shag. More bright-white shag—looking like the hide of an Afghan dog—covers the dashboard and other extremities. Don’t spill coffee on it.

In the old days a roue would invite a gal to come upstairs and see his etchings. In the period of Dazed and Confused (see it immediately if you’ve somehow missed it) the invitation is into the back of the van. This one is outfitted with an eight-inch thick mattress mounted on a storage-friendly plinth, with appropriate come-hither red draperies and, I kid you not, Champagne Satin sheets. There are three swivel seats with a convenient oak table, too. The front thrones, two-toned in shades of gray, are just about the only restrained element in the van.

Here’s the piece de resistance: “Each side vent window is etched, showing the Zig-Zag papers man from back in the day, smoking a joint.”

But wait, there’s more. The van was professionally repainted in 1984 and has been stored indoors since. “The undercarriage is beautiful,” the owner said. This is no mere appearance upgrade.

All the door jambs were repainted, and new window track rubbers and felts were installed for each of the front doors, plus new door seals.

Other features include a roof-mounted fiberglass go-wing, an era-correct bug shield painted on the front hood, and a new wooden sub-floor. There are three functional sunroofs.

The rear door glass pops out on both sides. The eight-track is long gone; now there’s a Bluetooth-capable Pioneer rig with four speakers. I think I’m seeing a custom and period-correct steering wheel from the J.C. Whitney catalog.

There are 98,000 miles on the odometer, with a recent engine service that included an oil change, plugs and wires, cap and rotor, and a new fuel pump. “It runs very, very well,” says the proud owner.

This is a bit of an understatement: “Overall, the van shows and looks very nicely”.

Act quickly on this one if you want to be the local retro Don Juan because it’s for sale locally in Pennsylvania and there’s not much time left on the eBay auction.