Also last week, a broken-down van overturned on an Arizona Interstate, seriously injuring the 33 people crammed inside.

As Mr. Bridgman and Mr. Gallagher joke about broken-down vans and truck-packing rituals (andirons in the front, furniture in the back), they sound every bit as close as family.

In fact, bands that have already secured label support may find touring budgets drastically reduced, with broken-down vans or economy tickets the only transport option and food riders not necessarily part of the deal.

Simon then takes up residence in Everett's broken-down van in the backyard of Monty's house.

Harry & Concepta Hewitt return for the ceremony; Harry is later crushed to death whilst fixing his broken-down van when the jack slips.

The seniors, unable to afford a limo, had made plans to go to the prom via "Jet Blue," Officer Trinidad's broken-down blue van.

He will drive a thousand miles in the broken-down van with his ladders on top to labor for a month on a log mansion in the wilds of Montana, for some eastern investment broker with the palace appetite of the Medicis.

There was nothing but the broken-down van up there.

Their off-season conditioning encompassed sprints on the sands of Lake Michigan, as well as pushing a broken-down van around the perimeter of the Notre Dame field.

He said the 17th suicide, Thomas Hyde, 30, who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, died on Aug. 4 from inhaling carbon monoxide in Dr. Kevorkian's "rusty, broken-down van."