Some of my longtime friends have started a fun little project, a podcast all about fake bands in pop culture. Well, really, it started from a website way back in the early 2000s, a site started just to document made-up bands in movies and TV and other culture called fakebands.com. Then it became a book! It’s a lot of fun, and they just had me on to talk about some of the more famous cars of fake bands. We cover some of the greats, like The Blues Brothers’ Bluesmobile, the Amphicats piloted by the terrifying furries of the Banana Splits, the OMG-worthy GTO that is the Monkeemobile, and more. It’s worth a listen! I mean, what could it hurt?
For our particular audience, all of you oil-saturated gearheads, with overdeveloped left calves from clutch-pushing, it may be fun to listen to me explain things that I think we all take for granted, like landau bars and the Chicken Tax, to some non-gearhead normies.
The cars we do cover are ones that, mostly, I bet you’ve heard of: the Bluesmobile from the Blues Brothers, the Partridge Family DeStijl-inspired bus, the Monkeemobile, the Doof Wagon from Mad Max:Fury Road, and more, including a couple really obscure ones.
To get you in the mood, let’s recall the majesty of the Doof Wagon, a converted MAN KAT 1 A1 8×8 missile launcher truck:
…and to change the mood a little, maybe appreciate the Electric Mayhem’s International bus in its natural habitat:
While I know David would like me to write about all the stuff we discussed on the podcast here, in lovely text-and-picture form, I’m still at the hospital and they’re connecting a whole new IV bag of magnesium sulfate, so I’m going to just encourage you to listen, take a moment and really revel in the audio-ness of it all, which you can do right here, or, if you want, whatever podcasting setup you prefer. Knowing you, it’s probably something where you dub it to cassettes and play it on your Walkman.
It’s a generally great podcast, so I’d encourage you to follow them and keep listening for your limited non-car media needs! Which you should have, I guess.
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