It takes somebody with a love of cars and a bit of a sense of humor to drive a hearse as a daily driver, and judging by the skeleton hanging in from the rear view mirror and the obscene amount of car magazines in the back, Don, the owner of the Fleetwood you see here, certainly appears to have both.
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I was going through some of my photos and found this. It’s the same electric Rabbit that I posted about before, only this is a shot of it driving at 40th Street and Indian School. I had forgotten that I had this picture. It was taken long before I saw it at the Pavilions when I took the pictures for the other post. I now recall seeing it driving around in the Arcadia area all the time about two years ago. Hopefully it’s still driving, but I don’t live around there any more so I couldn’t tell you for sure.
From this photo, the motivation behind the electric conversion is pretty clear. Apparently, it was built in 1993 because “screw OPEC”.
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You can usually find this Gremlin at the Pavilions on Saturday nights. I’ve never been able to find the owner of the car but I’d eventually like to find him and ask him some questions about the car, but for now, I’ll just go out on a limb here and assume that it’s really fast.
This car is weird, and I love that about it. I love the front end, the bare metal, the bizarre half back window and the motor, of course, but I find the interior especially cool. I like everything about it, from the screen, to the randomly placed ignition components on the floor, even the “gremlin” in the sheet metal of the dash. It’s just a really cool car. Enjoy the pics!
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Something looks familiar here, right?
Let’s take a closer look…
Weird.
This is a Coachmen Aurora. I can’t find any information regarding what years they used Camry taillights, but I did learn that certain Winnebagos also used the same lights.
Apparently, more than one person on the forum I was reading has had their lights stolen from their RVs. I think this lends credence to the theory that every single Camry in the whole world has had one of it’s corners smashed. The owners are desperate for replacement parts because all of the Camrys in the junkyards have broken taillights too, so they have resorted to stealing parts off people’s motorhomes. I’m really not sure how you would take one of those lights off from the outside though, so I really don’t know what to think exactly.
I’d like to know what other RVs use existing car’s tail lights. It’s definitely something I’m always going to be looking out for now.
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Apparently, this truck has nothing to do with the similarly named Bronco Centurion (one of which I keep seeing but never when I have my camera). The company that does the “Centaurus” conversions is called LCM and I can’t find much information about them at all. It appears that they mostly converted Chevy and Ford vans and Explorers though, and the F-350 conversions are said to be very rare, which I believe, since I haven’t been able to find a picture of a truck on the internet yet that looks similar to this one at all.
The actual conversion itself is pretty much what you’d expect from a typical conversion van, from what I’ve read. They are supposed to be really plush and luxurious inside, but I wasn’t able to get close enough to take a look. Looking at the outside of the truck, it isn’t hard to imagine how tasteless customized these vehicles are inside.
That fact that all the accessories on the truck were designed by the same company and professionally installed does make it look much better than most of the other hyper-accessorized trucks out there (why are there so many of them anyways?) I guess you could say it’s tasteless, done tastefully.
This car is exactly like when a bum gets all cleaned up and trims his beard and pulls his hair back into a ponytail and puts on a suit, only backwards.
And you thought the last Corvette I posted was bad…
