That is what I saw driving down the road. It was a school bus, painted purple, and it had a rust colored Volkswagon Bus (The shell only, I assume)welded to the top of it. I guess to make more head room or something. I am not sure. I can only imagine that it was some sort of home-made Motor Home. I can’t imagine that it was street legal, but so it goes when you live in the sticks.
So, what bizarre vehicles have to seen driving down the road? It has to have actually been driving, other wise it doesn’t count 
Saw this one after dreaming of it – a Chevy Nomad body on a sport ute frame. It was uglier than the one in my dreams.
I’ve also seen a VW bug with a blower sticking out of the hood (engine relocated to the front) and jacked up like for off-road.
For your viewing pleasure: http://www.artcars.com/
I saw a couple at Burning Man a few years ago. There was a van with a giant shark fin attached. Another van completely covered with small toys (like troll dolls) and knick-knacks. Someone else had turned a scooter into a giant bunny rabbit, complete with some kind of felt fur. Granted, they weren’t being operated on the road, but they were working vehicles and I understand that the owners do drive them in the street.
As far as being street legal, they would of course have to meet inspection criteria (working brake lights, headlights, seat belts, etc.) I don’t think it’s illegal to do custom body work - even if it’s radical - but there might be limits. I seem to recall that custom made limosines have a length limitation that is based on the structural strength of the frame.
If a cop was going to ticket the operators of the bus/bug thing, what crime would he charge them with?
Houston, Texas, where I live, is the Art Car capital of the world, so I see lots of 'em. One of my favorites from many years ago was a '68 Buick Skylark that had the front windshield replaced by sheet metal with vision slits, the rear axle and wheels replaced by the drive wheels and treads from a tractor and a long ~4" pipe sticking ouy of a cutout in the metal windshield that extended out to the front of the car.
The whole thing was painted black and had some sort of propane hookup so the “cannon” could belch flames every now and then.
I only entered because I thought this was a thread about my penis.
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I was just wondering who attached a car to David Dixon.
Oh, I thought you were talking about my mom.
House bus!
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I love house busses and house trucks. Here is a really good site about them. Somewhere in there are instructions for applying VW shells to bus roofs. Click on ‘Bus Barn’ and look at some of the pics - some of these trucks are nicer than many houses I’ve seen…
By far, the strangest thing I’ve ever seen on the road is a mousehead on wheels, ears over the back side windows, eyes on the top, and all. Strange how some people take pride in their cars, other are strictly for practical purposes, and then there’s stuff like this, which just makes you wonder:
"Which mental illness does that person have? " (hmmm, wonder if you could turn that into one of those ‘long road trip games’)
For the record, the car of my dreams is an M1 tank with a loudspeaker on the top. When traffic becomes a problem, I just hit a button, and: “I am driving a tank, get out of my way, or I will run over you… repeatedly.” TOO, do they make paintball shells fir M-1 tank cannons? Not that I’m in the market or anything (wink,wink).
There were two in my Silicon Valley neck of the woods. Just saw the caterpillar car (Calliope) a week ago, but it’s been about a year since I’ve seen the “terminal key” car- a geo metro or similar car completely encrusted with keys from old vt100 computer terminals.
I’ve never seen Gustine Castle’s other cars Kazoo and Marimba. I have had the interesting experience of seeing a few minutes of her TV show, and no I don’t understand what the CAN thing is about other than a fixation with the color cantaloupe.
As for the OP, I’ve seen a bus with two VW vans on top at a 1995 Grateful Dead concert.
Here’s a page from the Bus Barn with some buses with VW’s on top.
The ugliest cars in the world:
http://www.beaterz.com
One of my favorites:
http://www.beaterz.com/one_liners/0201/020101_aerobulge.htm
There’s a car in St. Paul with doll heads attached all over it. It’s kinda creepy, like the guy’s been running them down and taking the heads as trophies or something.
One day while driving my brother to work in Cincinnati I noticed a car that was completely covered in indoor/outdoor carpetting. Just kinda make me sit there and think “I wonder if that hurts his gas mileage?”
You wouldn’t happen to be in the Tampa area, would you? That sounds remarkably like this “thing” that one of the bartenders at Skipper’s used to own, but he sold it a while back.
Another one I saw in Tampa was some old land yacht. the kind with two big fins on the back end. But this one had the fins from a dozen or so other cars attached to it, on the trunk, the hood, even the roof. And all painted bright red.
Oooh, ooh, I almost forgot one.
There’s two guys who live around here who both ride sportbikes. One has his completely covered in some white tiger skin material, and the other has his covered in leopard skin.
I have seen them together, btu I don’t know if they got together because of their mutual appreciation for fake animal skin, or before that.
No, I am afraid not. I live in Nothern California.
Just last night I saw a stretch VW bug limousine. New model. That sucker must have been 20 feet long, with 6 doors. I thought the stretch HumVee I see around was strange, but this took the cake.
I had an abandoned 4WD '65 Mustang in my impound lot at NAVSTA Philly. Someone had litterally welded the 'Stang on top of a 4x4 frame. Good GOD, but it was ugly…
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i know a guy who has a jeep covered in blue and green astroturf. he is a strange duck.
there are all kinds of crazy shit vehicles around where i live, but the majority are 4WD creations out of VW’s or old street cars. there is a 57 chevy that sits about 4 feet off the ground thats actually very well done.
the freaks really come out for burning man, though.