Bring Back The A-Team!

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Comedian Mike Birbiglia is a fan of the A-Team, and of Maaco.

“This seems like a joke, but I own an A-Team van,” he said June 19 on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

“The van from the A-Team?” Jimmy asked.

“Not theirs. I made my own. I brought you a picture of it.” (Holds up a poster.)

“You made this yourself?”

“Yes. It's not as hard as you think.” (Laughter.) “I went to Maaco. They paint cars there. And I said to the guy, I swear to God, I go, ‘Can I have it black with a red stripe on the side?’ And he was like, ‘A-Team Van?’”

“No one's ever done this before.” (Laughter.)

“I thought it was going to be really pricey, and it wasn't even that expensive. I think that the reason is, when you make an A-Team van, the people who are making it for you understand that you're not making it for yourself, you're making it for America. You’re doing it for all. (Laughter.)

“You're not being selfish at all….”

The van was painted in October 2007 at the Cincinnati center on Northland Boulevard, now operated by Lynn Burnside and Doug and Ann Wannemacher.

The A-Team television series, which ran from 1983 to 1986, was about a fictional group of soldiers of fortune on the run from the military for a “crime they didn't commit.”