The Interwebs are a weird and wonderful place

Spotted these grainy shots on Hemmings. Reminds me of a Bigfoot photo.

Complain all you want about the four-seater and even the four-door Thunderbirds and Ford losing its way with the icon of the 1950s, at least you never saw a Thunderbird station wagon come from the factory.
Sometime in the 1980s, during a deluge of rain, Steve Donohue made a pit stop on the Ohio Turnpike and spied either the best or worst thing to ever happen to a 1972-1976 Ford Thunderbird. While the roof above the driver and passenger appeared chopped, it looks like the builder left the greenhouse (possibly from a same-era LTD wagon?) at stock height.
Steve said these were the best photos he could get during the downpour using an instant print camera, but he still scanned them in to share them with us. Anybody seen this beast around since then?

 

Busy night, lots of good surfing. Found this on Hemmings Blog.

Two things surprised us when we ran the Buick Motorhome photos that Wally Hirsch sent us recently: That we hadn’t seen photos of this totally unique land yacht anywhere before, and that nobody immediately chimed in with additional photos. After all, this is exactly the kind of beast that Internet hipsters love to bash and that ends up in those ceaseless email forward chains.
But our readers deliver. Specifically, Doug Schaefer and his dad Fred, who spotted the motorhome and snapped some pictures of it in Northeast Ohio a year after the previous photos were taken. Fred sent along the photos and wrote:

"Attached are two pictures I took in 1977 when we camped at a campground around Conneaut, OH, east of Cleveland. We were on our way home from a barbershop harmony convention in Philadelphia. This vehicle was there and, being car nuts, we had to check it out. It appears to be made of 2-3 1962 Buick station wagons! Since it was so long ago, the details beyond that have since been forgotten."
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Extra Weird!!

 

I'd love to see some interior shots of these vehicles. (I guess that's what they are--vehicles.)

 

Uh...that last one is Extra, Super, Totally Weird! I wonder if he can see anything out of that from the drivers seat. He'd have to carry a dozen extra batteries to power all those lights if they worked. I'd love to hear the story behind that one!

 

I think the story is pritty clear regaurding the builder......

AWE MAN, DAZ KOOL.....

 

We had a 'wierd vehicle' thread a while back (maybe a couple), and all those were discused at length. The guy that built that silver Mercedes thingy also built a big extended Chevy van along those same lines - mucho length, extra axles in the middle, etc. I think he even put on 4-wheel steering.....

Saw a TV show that featured the guy and his vehicles. He's in Florida, but comes from Checkoslovakia or some such.......

 

Kinda' like Democracy, as embraced by former Soviet Republics.. ..

 

Sheesh! Looks like he scoured every backyard mechanic and took whatever parts he could find to build her.

 

Well......this is a great testimomial to the fact that less is more!

 

It was a junkyard dog in a previous life! Came back remembering all the parts it protected.

 

Imagine if it was all polished as much as possible... it would blind all cars around it on a major highway the one at the top is pretty cool looking... I wonder what happened to it?

 

D'OH. I didn't do so good at searching for old threads again. Sorry guys, didn't mean to rehash old stuff.

 

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OK the first one is kinda cool...the second one is UUUGG AGGLLYYY! And the third one...I think fannie's 1/4 are under there somewhere

I bet he is sooo proud of that at the car shows...it's all in the eye of the beholder...right?