Promo Van Build for Esteamz Entertainment 42 inch lcd tv on outside of van

Styles is CEO of Esteamz Entertainment and a very good customer of ours at NVS Audio. We had built a few cars for Styles in the past but nothing as wild as this! Styles spoke to me and told me that he wanted to do something "over the top" to promote is company and his up and coming artist. He wanted us to convert a chevy express van into a mini limo and promo van for long out of state trips to do shows. this was no problem for us, he wanted in car pc with mobile hi speed internet, touch screen navigation with over speed warnings on major highways, ipod control, dvd , playstation 3, seating for at least 8, 4 subwoofers. All this was no problem for us..... He is where is get a little crazy .... Styles wanted a big tv on the outside of the car to show dvd video of his artist, i said 20 inch , he said no bigger, i said 30 inch, he said no bigger, i said 42 inch !??? he said that should be ok. Now my worry was being able to install the tv solid and safe , maintain the factory line of the van, protect the tv from theft, protect the tv from the sun and make it serviceable. As if that wasn't challage enough, Styles wanted to add a micraphone system that would allow his artist to proform on the roof of the van to the video as the video played and the music, and the artist both came out the speakers in the van van loud enough to perform in front of a crowd of a few hunded people!!!!
I though it over for a few days , came up with a game plan gave Styles a call. He liked what he heard ,gave us the green light and dropped of the van. What came next was 3 months of hard work and late nights, but we made it happen and it came out great! Since the build the van had toured up and down the eastcoast hitting every major music even and car show, winning awards and turning heads everywhere!
The van has had a couple of minor accidents and some broken equipment (from some of the wild parties that take place inside and outside of the van) but nothing major we were alaways able to get them back on the road doing shows after a few days and a few upgrades along the way.

The begining :

The Teardown :
We compleatly gutted the whole van and started fresh, down to the bare metal!

With the carpet removed we begain the build.
We cut a BIG opening on the outside of the van and framed it out with a 2x2 inch welded steel tube frame to reenforce the opening we just made and to give us a solid surface to mount the tv and the bulletproof glass. We when with bulletproof glass because it is shatter proof and we can drill throu it for the mounting holes. Welding the steel frame took a long time because first we had to level the van on jack stands , then we had to level the frame before we welded it together , then we had to level the whole thing to the nav before we welded it in place. After the tv frame was mounted we then tacked the subwoofer enclosure. We had to cut away most of the driver side rear wheel well and then rebuild the whole thing out of 7 layers of fiberglass to build the base of the enclosure. it had to be solid because it would also serve as the bench seat bottom on that section of the van. We used 2x4 to brace the inside of the encloser and made the chambers 1.25 cf per woofer. We ran 4 optima yellow tops in a custom rack under the rear bench seat and one under the hood. The factory altinotor was upgraded to a OHIO genorator 250 amp and we ran 0 gauge power and ground front to back under the van (the carpet was removed to make way for the custom hardwood floor , so the would be no wires running under the wood flor of the carpet do to the lack of clearance.). After the encloser was done the the bottoms of the seats were built we moved on the the rear seat entertainment, a masive 36 inch lcd motorized up directley behind the rear seats witch also acts as a partition for privicy!!!! Also added for good measure were 2 nine inch fipdown tvs and a 15 inch flipdown incase the larger 32 inch screen was in the closed position and not in use.
We welded a 1x1 inch steel frame for the 36 inch lcd to ride up and down on and a 2x4 and mdf wood frame to keep it all in place and protected.