Strange Car News on the Interwebs
When surfing the web for news, there’s no shortage of strange car culture stories around the globe. From car coffins in Guam and the Southland to Big Daddy Roth’s Auto Show – we gathered up a few tales of automotive lust for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Jalopnik and BoingBoing for posting them in the first place.
Somewhere in West Africa, personalized coffins are constructed to fit the lives of those whose remains they contain. This baby-blue tomb is in the shape of a taxi, on its way to be delivered to a former Benin livery driver. Speaking of funerals…
A Mr. James D. Calabrese of Ocean County, California, was laid to rest in a tricked out coffin fitted with parts from his 1958 Chevy Biscayne. His procession was led by a pack of hot rods. Pic via Autoblog
Hot rod funerals are pretty impressive, but how about a DeLorean one? Well, no one has decided they want to put a DMC into the ground, but someone did take their machine back in time and added a little steampunk to quantum leaping with a Victorian time machine – it’s no locomotive, but Doc Brown would approve.
Explosm has given us a heads up – clearing the air as to what auto-eroticism is NOT about.
We end this week with a look back at Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, a pioneer of DIY hot rods and show cars. His ’63 Orbitron project is chronicled on Iowa Hawk’s blog.
The Orbitron is supposedly cursed, and has been responsible for taking the lives (or at least maming) several racers including Roth himself. The vehicle has been in and out of storage for decades to be shown off at varios automotive events – but some still can’t forget the evil legacy this homemade hot rod leaves behind.
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