On the road to Talladega one weekend, we passed a DIY “motor home” that was clearly going to the race. They had taken one of those big old pickups from the 1970s and somehow got a good bit of a prefab house installed up on the bed, to turn the truck into a “camper” of sorts. The original truck appeared to be made entirely of Bondo.
The best part: On both sides, they had quite obviously used electrical tape to spell out their life motto:
GIT
‘R’
DONE
I kinda wanted to go hang out with them, but we were driving my wife’s 2001 Beetle. I was WAY out-manned.
I once worked with the late Paul Von Bank. He was a master welder, but he needed some artistic guidance. One of his projects had the core (front half of the cockpit) of a Chevy Vega. Behind that was a sectioned (width and length) El Camino pickup bed. The doghouse was the surgically altered hood and front fenders of a Chevy Caprice, shrunk to fit. It had a big V-8 and a beefy drivetrain, and fat tires all around. The whole package looked almost right, sorta.
I once lived next door to a certified redneck with a project car in the side yard. It was a Ford Torino Ranchero, with a pair of rear fenders in the bed. The hood was up, and there was an 8 foot poplar tree growing up through the engine bay!
In my hometown there’s a store called “THe Gun Rack”. The owner drives a crappy old minivan with a gun rack in the back, with the store information on the sides. The best part is on the back there is “try and highjack this Osama!” written across the windshield.
lol - thanks. I like them. I’m putzing around designing a website for my OH profile & I love clothes and I have curves - soo…it seemed like a logical step.
That reminds me of a car that either a friend or a friend’s brother owned. It was a Caprice from '82 or so with body parts from almost a dozen other Caprices, all different colors and a giant band-aid sticker that said “OUCH!” covering a dent in the right front fender.
Ooh, in college (and in California) we used to line the neighbor’s big ol’ lifted F350 with plastic and drive down to the nearby laundromat. They had unwisely placed a hot water spigot outside where we could get to it, so we’d load that thing up with hot water and drive it back to the apartments. Red neck hot tub! I’ve seen pictures, and that’s pretty much what we looked like.
