There was a time when an event such at the Specialty Equipment Marketers Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas would have been packed to the rafters with modified vans, carrying horrid metal-flake paint jobs and interiors that looked like the inside of a trombone case.

That time has passed. Still, Ford dropped off its dorky, little Euro work van with the folks at Azentek and Grant Products to load it down with custom paint, BBS wheels, navigation and entertainment systems as well as what Ford described as a "kitchen on wheels."

Okay sure, it's cute in a dorky VW Camper van sort of way. But we think it still pales in comparison to the custom Transit Connect we designed months ago. To apiece their own, we guess. (original art by Boris Vallejo; illustration by Kurt Niebuhr)