Great blog post, totally agree with it... except, "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go" condescending? If you think Richard Scarry is trying to keep kids engaged with "the false novelty of a carrot car" (!!!) you do NOT understand the appeal of that book to kids, despite the claim to the contrary.
If I had more time I'd make myself a bananamobile. Sure it would only be useful for driving in the city parade, but I WANT one. (anyone want to fund my mid-life crisis? You get to see a bananamobile out of the deal)
That probably isn't the first either... Cool car, but I'm envisioning something that is more like the books show (and thus even more impractical as anything other than a parade vehicle)
Get a weibermobile and paint it yellow? They're literally street legal race cars and probably not too dissimilar in shape to what a bananamobile would be.
A yellow vinyl wrap plus fabricating a couple of cones for the ends of the wiener to morph it into a banana sounds a heck of a lot cheaper than fabricating a fiberglass banana shell from scratch, I think you’re onto something here! I’ll start the GoFundMe and work on procuring a lightly used wiener mobile, GP will be cruising in a banana mobile by next summer :)
Class A motorhome, trash the motorhome, relocate driver station, build a bannana or a weiner or broccoli or whatever body to go on top.
This is basically how they built the wienermobiles except they were starting with stripped chassis not a "ran when parked, free if you haul" tier winnebago.
Speaking of wienermobiles, I think it's a travesty they never made Heinz ketchup bottles to tow behind them.
There's a special edition that includes the creation process in the back along with some copies of the intermediate stories. Quite a bit of story telling a well.
