He spent two years building a giant motorised banana, then drove it across a continent (bigbananacar.com)
Built from 2008 and finished in 2011, the Big Banana Car has toured the USA, Canada and a bit of Mexico under one motto: the world needs more whimsy. Park it and you can take a free trinket off the dashboard, just not his phone.
Readers loved the joy and then flinched: a few stops, one commenter noted, and a routine encounter with the wrong officer could go badly. Others traded their own 'pulled over just to look at the car' stories.
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