I developed yet another idea while at work tonight. A Rolls Royce El Camino! You could take the rear window, turn it upside down and backwards and use it like a normal Elky does. Use the doors from a 2 door or convertible, and make some panels to extend the quarters. Then, make a pickup bed from junkyard metal ( Ranchero or El Camino donor from the mid 70's), and use part of the trunk lid as the tail gate. For an engine, nothing but a clanky diesel would do. I think a Ford Power Stroke with a manual trans is most appropriate as it comes from that most Redneck of vehicles, the F-150. It should be made to look like a factory conversion, with good metal work and good paint. The tailgate should function properly too. I think an appropriate accessory would be a Confederate flag on the back window, along with a gun rack. (In this case, it would be a statement about class and not race, but I would still be a bit leery of using it for fear of being misunderstood.) A Dixie horn would also subtract "class" from the conversion. A big stereo blasting Lynard Skynnard would complete the effect. Added bonus points for hay bales or a load of manure in the bed. I even came up with a name, "Prole's Royce". Basically, it takes the term Proletariat from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, and shortens it to the form used by George Orwell in "1984". The Proles were the lowest class of society in the novel, so it is a fitting name for a de-classed Rolls Royce.
I would probably drive it through West Palm Beach, clanking diesel and all. Valet parking it would be the best though.
I would probably drive it through West Palm Beach, clanking diesel and all. Valet parking it would be the best though.
