Here’s a bit of insight into my typical work day: I spend hours at my computer searching, performing research, and in general dredging the Internet for things that I think BangShifters would like to see. Admittedly, I spend more time on Craigslist than any human probably should, but you never know when that “gotta have it!” project is going to pop up for sale. That, and I like to see what’s up for grabs in the local area. I’ve come to expect certain things out of the Craigslist listings in my area: front-drive cars nobody wants, old diesel trucks that are being priced at about three times their real-deal worth, and Mustangs of just about every type imaginable. I did not expect to see the gem that is the “Bitchin’ Chicken Car” pop up.
It’s not like you will miss an Oldsmobile 98 painted Big Bird yellow…that would be visible from the International Space Station. But the head of a rooster and a tail of feathers on said Olds…that’s the fastest way to have people pay attention to you since setting yourself on fire and cartwheeling to Ohio. Is it real? Somehow, in my travels of Nashville, I haven’t seen a twenty-foot long, two and a half ton fryer cruising up Interstate 65 with a bunch of chicks inside. What would you do with this monster? C’mon…we’d autocross that sucker at a Goodguys autocross to the absolute horror of the track staff. It’d be a cone massacre and we’d be dying laughing as we pinball around the cabin while the S.S. Bantam there wallows around.
Ok, now that I’ve made it through this without making one joke about a giant…uh, “rooster”…we will get to today’s Question Of the Day: Can you find something stranger than the feathered sled we found? We wish you the best of luck.
Plucking chickens Batman!
I’m not the chicken plucker I’m the chicken plucker’s son
and I’ll keep on plucking chickens til the chicken plucking’s done.
But pluck me – is that a chicken that thinks its a car or a car that thinks its a chicken?
Cash for Cluckers Act 2017.Trumps way of getting the chicken shit off the highways.
The one and only? Did he just get it from a guy in L.A.? Was that a fake ad and the car is not really “Ramone”s? For more info on the infamous Chicken Car (also seen on the TV show Storage Wars) see: http://smdp.com/the-kooky-story-behind-santa-monicas-chicken-car/156497
Loren, your suspicions are correct. I searched on Barry Weiss of Storage Wars and found this. http://www.therichest.com/luxury/auto/barry-weiss-500-000-vintage-car-collection/
Ah yes…and about that search-thing, Google the image which even looks like West L.A. with the building style and you get exactly it from at-least as far back as a year ago, example, this: http://www.ufunk.net/vrac/selection-du-weekend-221/ (Scroll down halfway) and many others. Fake ad.
Oh, yeah, it appears to be an early ’70’s Oldsmobile.
Theres more cars being scammed than what are actually for sale it seems like anymore
Can’t say it ain’t entertaining sometimes, though…
i think this car is the one that tommy kendell owns,i have talked to him about it.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000079370375 the car’s FB page
Call me crazy but I think a few of the person magazines had pictures of this same car from the 80’s to the early 2000’s.