We love SEMA for its incredible display of mobile creativity, but even by the show's standards, the Scion x Riley Hawk Skate Tour xB is a work of '70s-tastic art.
Slammed down on classic Cragar S/S wheels and white-letter BF Goodrich tires, this amazing vanlet dives back four decades in time with its brilliant, pinstriped orange, brown, red, and yellow paint scheme and fish-bowl window. Other period-correct details include side-exit exhaust pipes (non-functional, sadly), door-mounted metal mirrors, chrome grille slats, a raised roof, and even "Back Off" mud flaps.
According to Scion, this retrospectacular xB is inspired by "the interests of professional skateboarder Riley Hawk." (If you'd like to feel old, know that he's Tony Hawk's kid. And that he's 21.) Besides the obvious skate stuff, Hawk apparently also is interested in building wood cabinets, button-tufted Naugahyde, covering stuff—even walls and windows—in deep-pile shag carpet, and chatting with truckers on a CB radio when not listening to classic 8-tracks. Yep, this thing has an 8-track player—and a T-bar shifter, crank windows, hinged metal door pulls, and a Pioneer sound system through which you can play a guitar, using an iPad mini as a mixer.
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For the record, this is exactly—exactly—what we would do to a Scion xB and all the gold in Fort Knox. If you want to see the van yourself and aren't one of the lucky ones to go to the SEMA show this year, watch for Riley Hawk appearances at skate venues and competitions in your neck of the woods; Scion says this custom xB is expected to follow him like the most groovy groupie in history.
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