Our Purpose – Direct, Affordable Conversions

Adaptive Mobility Systems, Inc. has been serving Atlanta area customers since 1979. Like many other adaptive equipment dealers around the USA, they built custom full size vans for clients in wheelchairs and also later became dealers for several lowered floor minivan companies such as Braun and IMS. They sold a full line of equipment from scooter lifts to hand controls. However, by the end of the 1990's they 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 the 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 Adaptive Mobility Systems, Inc. about building lowered floor minivans in Canada. In October of 2001 they successfully completed a full set of crash tests on the new 2001 models at PMG Technologies in Quebec. Adaptive Mobility Systems, Inc can proudly say that they are one of the only lowered floor minivan producers to be fully certified in the USA and with Canada Transport. The enlarged 63,000 square foot quality assured facility now produces 60 lowered floor minivan conversions per month in their Norcross, Georgia, location - shared with AMS Vans, Inc.

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. The philosophy would be to make it strong, simple and safe. To this end the first AMS 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, they forged into production and built fully crash test certified lowered floor minivans at the rate of about 4 per month. AMS Vans, Inc. sold everything Adaptive Mobility Systems could produce. The word spread and many people heard that they could get late model pre-owned lowered floor minivans from $20,000-$30,000 and that they could convert their own Dodge Grand Caravan or Chrysler Town & Country for only $13,900.

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.