For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over…
“‘The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.’”
Nothing like abusing your authority just to make a shitty dad joke.
, officer
I like his slogan: “The world needs more whimsy”. You see it even here in this thread where half the comments can’t focus on how amazing and hilarious the banana car is and instead make it about their disdain for police.
It would be awesome if more people did this and the world looked more like Richard Scarry’s books!
Would you still love me if I was a worm? Driving an apple?
The reason it is whimsical and fun is because it’s unique. I’m sure its also a huge pain in the ass when it comes to just owning it. Parking. Painting, Maintenance, etc. Then there’s safety to consider when it comes to things like accidents. I’m sure most of these custom cars are death traps for the occupants in any situation other than just fender benders.
Do I love seeing them on the road, yes. Would I drive one myself or enjoy living in a world full of them? No.
I don’t have an art car like this banana, but I have an old weird Japanese 4x4 and… Yeah. You’re kinda right. When you hit the brakes it doesn’t always stop straight. There is considerable slack in the steering. It sways. It’s slow. It gets surprisingly bad gas mileage. It has an auto-locker, so it clicks going around corners. It has solid axles at both ends, and leaf springs. At both ends. It has no airbags, and there is nothing in the door except the exterior sheet metal for protection. No airbags, no ABS, no traction control, no stability control, no rear camera, just a steering wheel more or less connected to the front wheels. It’s dangerous to drive and it’s objectively horrible to drive.
But it’s so much fun. And it’s completely unstoppable on a trail.
There’s always room for more disdain for police!
Richard scarry feels validated.
Somehow the builder didn’t even mention it. But there almost no way he hadn’t seen that right? I think that book came out in the late 1960s.
I’ve wanted a Steyr Puch Haflinger since I was about 5 from that book. Pretty rare in the US though.
That looks like it could kill two families of five in a single sunday trip to the beach.
It’s tiny and only goes 50mph max (maybe, and that’s pushing it). it’s more like an all terrain golf cart than even a UTV.
It’s smaller than an old OG jeep.
I stand by my assessment.
Wonderful
passengers wave
It’s all the same guy.
enough roadside conversations to fill a produce aisle
Nice
I don’t get it. They sell roadside banter in produce aisles?
… or produce roadside banter in sell aisles?
Hey look we are just asking questions
