My Crazy Uncle

[wdfifteen]

Last winter my uncle built a vehicle to carry politicians in parades. He was in city government where he lives, so he ought to know what it takes. He started with a 1967 Volkswagen and a 1920s-era McCormick-Deering manure spreader. "It seemed like the perfect vehicle for a politician spreading s**t."








This is the business end. Notice the current license plate. It is street-legal in his state.




The beater is powered by this electric motor. He can operated it remotely with a key-fob controller he has.



He can set the beater speed to match the amount of BS his politician is spreading.




You don't have to look too close to see its VW provenance.

[Nostril Cheese]

All kinds of awesome.

[Evans, Marv]

That is too cool! Sort of reminds me of a cobbled together Model A a roommate of mine had in college. I don't remember all of its mods. The one that sort of entertained me the most was for operating the headlights. He had a house light switch on the dash with a house plugin receptacle next to it with an electric plug in it connected to a wire running out from under the dash. To turn on the head lights, you flipped the light switch. To change from low beams to high beams, you pulled out the electric plug, turned it over and plugged it in again.

[Rick V]

That is all kinds of way cool

[HardDrive]

Way cool. You should submit it to Jalopnik.

Great piece of Americana.

[VINMAN]

Love it!

[herr_oberst]

Wow. Just wow.

I LIKE it!

[Baz]

That unit is AWESOME!!!!

That is what our politicians SHOULD be using for transportation during their campaigns! LOL!

Thumbs up to your uncle!

[craigster59]

That baby is off the charts! Nice job!