Our Purpose – Direct, Affordable Conversions
At AMS Vans, Inc. our goal is to connect people with their destination.
We understand how difficult it can be to afford or rent a wheelchair accessible mini-van and how
frustrating it can be to find one in good condition. That’s why we do what we do. In addition
to affordable value, our team of professional individuals will work to make your purchase experience
pleasant from the first phone call to the time that you take delivery of your van. We are a dedicated
to educating our customers and making sure you get the accessible van that is right for your needs.
About AMS Vans, Inc. - Company Profile
Adaptive Mobility Systems, Inc. has been serving Atlanta area customers since 1979.
Like many other adaptive equipment dealers around the USA we built custom full size vans for our clients
in wheelchairs and also later became dealers for several lowered floor minivan companies such as Braun
and IMS. We also sold a full line of equipment from scooter lifts to hand controls. However, by the end
of the 1990’s we came to realize that the lowered floor minivan was going to someday replace the larger
and more cumbersome full sized vans that had been the mainstay of our industry. The ease of driving and
parking the minivan plus the lower cost of operation was surely going to propel the lowered floor minivan
into the forefront of the handicap van market. There was one problem though....these new lowered floor minivans
from the major manufacturers cost between $40,000-$45,000.....OUCH! Many people loved the idea of personal
transportation freedom that these new minivans offered but felt left out because of the price.
Canadian dealers approached us about building lowered floor minivans in Canada. In October of 2001
we successfully completed a full set of crash tests on the new 2001 models at PMG Technologies in Quebec.
Now we can proudly say that we are one of the only lowered floor minivan producers to be fully certified
in the USA and with Canada Transport. Our enlarged 63,000 square foot National Mobility Equipment Dealers
Association “NMEDA” quality assured facility now produces 40 lowered floor minivan conversions per month
in our Norcross, Georgia, location. We are not the largest producer of lowered floor minivans in the market,
but we certainly do offer the most for your dollar, whether in the USA or Canada.
The spring of 1999 brought a new owner to Adaptive Mobility Systems, Inc., with over 30 years of
automotive background. His experienced design team immediately set out to build a reasonably priced
lowered floor minivan system based on pre-owned Dodge Grand Caravans and Chrysler Town & Country models.
Our philosophy would be to make it strong, simple and safe. To this end the first of our AMS Vans Conversion
units, as they would be called, were built and crash tested at Transportation Research Center in East
Liberty, Ohio, (one of the top rated testing centers in the USA). In January 2000, with resounding success,
we forged into production and built fully crash test certified lowered floor minivans at the rate of about
4 per month. We sold everything we could produce while still maintaining our position as Atlanta’s #1 new
IMS Van dealer. The Word spread and many people heard we could offer late model pre-owned lowered floor
minivans from $20,000-$30,000 or that we could convert their own Dodge Grand Caravan for them for only
$13,900 (a process taking about 4 weeks to complete).
We look forward to helping you connect with your destination. We are happy to assist you and answer
any questions you may have. Our goal is to make disable transportation more available and affordable to
our friends in wheelchairs.