# It's Big! It's Purple! And It Has a VW Bus Welded to the Top of It! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437 "2001-10-25T01:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/21 "2001-10-25T18:52:24Z")
No kidding! Somewhere in the Indianapolis area someone (god knows why) has taken a Chevette and put it on one of those huge 4X4 chassis. There’s a monster minivan (same setup) here in town… I don’t know what to say about the the ricer-style paint job on the late-model Caprice station wagon… I love the Beaterz site… should get the digital camera out again - plenty of fodder here! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/22 "2001-10-25T19:54:25Z")
A couple of years ago I actually met a guy who had put an old Pinto body on a 4x4 frame. With HUGE wheels. Then he painted it camoflauge. He offered to sell it to me for 500 bucks. I told him no thanks.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/23 "2001-10-26T06:46:20Z")
You know those caps you can buy to mount on the back of a pickup truck, that turns it into a mini-camper? Twice I have seen one (same vehicle) welded onto the back and top of a 1980s-era Saab sedan. Damnedest thing… ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/24 "2001-10-26T06:59:31Z")
[li]a real replica of the Ghostbusters car[/li][li]a real replica of the General Lee[/li][li]a 55 Pontiac station wagon on monster truck suspension and tires[/li][li]a beat up old pick-up truck, painted with flat latex paint, half of it is white and pink stripes the other half is blue with white polka dots, and some black n white cow spots, with giant bull horns mounted to the hood. Its the ugliest vehicle I have ever seen. It pretty much defies complete description.[/li]I saw the Oscar Meyer weinermobile pass through town once. ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/25 "2001-10-26T07:47:24Z")
I saw pictures of the same sort of car, **Tranqilis** , and I must say that I thought it cool in a hillbilly sort of way. My friends, on seeing it, began a short and ill-fated project to add tracks to an F-body. A hick can dream, can’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/26 "2001-10-26T14:09:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chrome Spot \* > **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.** Believe it or not, this is almost exactly what the '55-'57 Suburbans look like. Swap the nose and front quarters and you essentially have a 4x4 Nomad. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437/27 "2001-10-26T14:40:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*I saw pictures of the same sort of car, **Tranqilis** , and I must say that I thought it cool in a hillbilly sort of way. \*\* Dream all ya wanna, but this thing, I’m sure, was uglier than the one you saw. The 'Stang’s frame had been left intact, complete with engine, but a ‘new’ tranny had been put in place. The wheels and axles ahd just been stripped out, and the Mustang’s underframe had been welded straight onto the stripped frame of a 4WD car of some sort, perhaps a Subaru. The transmission output had been redirected to the drivetrain of the second frame. Imagine a stripped mustang sitting on top of a couple of I-beams, sitting on wheels. I mean, Kee-rist! There was a _foot and a half_ of frame sticking down below the 'Stang’s quarter pannels! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-big-its-purple-and-it-has-a-vw-bus-welded-to-the-top-of-it/89437.md?page=1)