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Van Used by Rock Icons Aerosmith in '70s Found in Woods

by Associated Press

   CHESTERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS --

   Long before Aerosmith filled stadiums with tens of thousands of fans,
   the band traveled New England in a tiny van playing to smaller crowds.

   That dilapidated van has been found in the woods of a small
   Massachusetts town.

   Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, hosts of the History Channel show American
   Pickers, located the van in Chesterfield, a town of about 1,200
   residents 100 miles west of Boston.

   The property owner said the 1964 International Harvester Metro van was
   there when he bought the land from someone with a connection to
   Aerosmith.

   Ray Tabano, a founding member of Aerosmith, confirmed it was the van
   the rockers used in the 1970s.

   The pickers paid $25,000 for it. Wolfe says it's "a piece of American
   rock and roll history."