About The Van Guide

The Van Guide is a directory of van conversion builders and a reference for the insurance, registration, and certification questions that come with owning one.

The builder directory covers shops across the US. You can filter by state, platform, price range, and services. The editorial side covers which insurance carriers write policies on converted vans, how retitling works state by state, and what certifications like RVIA actually mean. Everything cites its source.

How this site will make money

Some outbound links — particularly to insurance carriers — may be affiliate links that earn The Van Guide a commission. When they are, the page that contains them discloses it clearly. Affiliate relationships never influence which carriers we recommend or how we rank them.

The builder directory is free to be listed in and free to search. Listings are never sold, and rankings are never influenced by payment.

Who runs this

The Van Guide is owned and operated by Andrew Underhill, who also owns Emery Custom Builds, a van conversion shop in Costa Mesa, California. ECB is listed in the builder directory under the same criteria as every other shop — no preferential placement, no enhanced profile, no editorial favoritism.

Running a build shop is actually why this site exists. The questions customers ask — about insurance, registration, retitling, certification — are the same ones that have bad answers everywhere else online. The editorial standards on this site apply equally to content that mentions ECB and content that doesn't.

Corrections

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