Article and Photos by Bryan Fross

   If a manufacturer or retailer decides to build a vehicle to showcase their products, they try to design and build something that will be eye-catching while making it very clear what they are trying to sell. This 2000 Ford E150 Van is one of the best examples I have ever seen to showcase a companies many products. This van is owned by Visonik Autophonics in Rancho Dominguez, CA. It was built for the purpose of displaying a wide range of Visonik products for car show attendee's to view.

   A mind blowing amount of audio equipment was installed starting with thirty-two 12” V120V6W subwoofers and four 12” 127D4 subwoofers. Mids and highs are distributed throughout the vehicle by ten 5 ¼” V52CS coax speakers and eight 6 ½” V860 mid bass drivers all controlled by a V68DVD AM/FM-CD/DVD player.  Multimedia equipment was also added including three 15” Optiview TFT LCD monitors and two VM6821 6.8” TFT LCD monitors. Power is provided by eight V2608 1400 Watt amplifiers and ten 1 Farad Vcap1fd digital capacitors. Installation of this equipment was performed by Unleashed Audio Designs.

After all of the Audio was set up, the interior needed some work from it's stock styling to make it stand out. A red color matched instrument panel, custom vinyl and fiber glass door panels, inter loop black carpet and three GT1 racing buckets wrapped in red and black leather were then installed.

With the major part of the project finished, the exterior was customized to bring attention to the van at shows. A Visonik Autophonics logo was painted on the side with PPG Burgundy tribal graphics on the front, side, and rear. All paint was sprayed by PeeWee. The suspension was then altered using Belltech 2” drop spindles in the front and ford E250 springs with air support in the rear. The van also rolls on 20” KMC Hellion wheels with 265/50/20 Falken tires.

This van has traveled all over to continental United States for the entire year of 2001 and plans are in the works for a total make over in the future so watch for it at a show near you.

For more information on Visonik Products please call Kevin Kuenzie at 1-800-848-6748 or visit their website at www.visonikusa.com