VIDEO: Aerosmith Reunited with Original Tour Van on ‘American Pickers’
It’s been a reunion about a year in the making, but Aerosmith and their original tour van from the band’s early days were brought back together thanks to the History Channel series American Pickers.
American Pickers hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz bought the van, which was just sitting on a wooded property in Chesterfield, Mass., in a 2018 episode for $25,000. They then restored the van and presented it to the band in Las Vegas, where they are currently in the middle of a residency at Park MGM. In the video below, the entire band is clearly blown away at the sight of this piece of their history.
As for the cartoon figure on the side of the van, that’s Mark Lehman, who Joey Kramer details was basically Aerosmith’s super-roadie and an old friend of Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton’s.
Who is painted on the iconic @Aerosmith van? We'll give you a hint, he wasn't even in the band! Get a dose of rock n' roll history from the rockstars themselves TONIGHT at 8/7c. pic.twitter.com/8En8YiLt06
— American Pickers (@americanpickers) July 8, 2019
