More converted than convertible

This wonderful, weird, whacky vehicle was parked in the street. I flashed past it and did a smart U-Turn (No, Officer, it was not a dangerous manoeuvre).

The steering wheel is composed of heavy chain links, while the spokes are piston con rods, the whole being attractively set with spark plugs and a nice toothed gear wheel.

The floor mats consist of carefully placed spanners, artfully welded to the floor.

The three foot pedals (this is plainly not an automatic gearbox), are made of pipe spanners, known to some as monkey wrenches.

The pièce de résistance is the gear lever, cunningly surrounded by large keys and topped with.....a hand grenade. Oh my!

The seats appear to be sections of steel drums

Various bits of pipes, chains and tools set off this fine vehicle.

One only lucky horseshoe can be seen - I sincerely hope it works.

The windscreen is folded back but I presume it carried a tax disc, even if the age of the chassis was declared to be pre 1974 and therefore road tax free.

In the back, not visible in this picture, was a First Aid box, holding four bottles of beer and a half jack of vodka.

I would hate to be the MOT (roadworthy) tester who had to deal with this vehicle.

I looked around for any traces of BA Baracus of the A Team, but no signs of clinking gold jewellery were to be seen or heard.

Lock up your daughters.