The "Mongrel T," built in 1966 by George Barris from a 1926ish Model T touring & Ford FE motor for the Elvis movie Easy Come Easy Go, but also doubled as TV's Jokermobile #DavesCarIDService
car still exists, somewhere in the bowels of the Petersen Museum in LA
Here's Elvis at the wheel, along with a few other cars emblematic of George Barris's mid-late 60s WTF period 
Before George Barris was gluing shag carpet and surfboards and guitars and gilded bathtubs on Model Ts, he and his brother Sam made some very tasteful and historic lead sleds
Also, Cesar Romero is still the greatest Joker of all time, don't @ me
Also, George Barris's "Bathtub Buggy" is not to be confused with Bob Reiser's twin tub & toilet "Bathtub Rod," currently being restored at my buddy Dave's shop in the San Fernando Valley
For a less-Louis XVI, more countrified take on a bathroom-themed automobile, there was also Don Bell's 1966 Outhouse T
sure, these are all goofy, but still cooler than the Tesla CyberTruck
Let's see Elon Musk come up with a circular shag carpeted bedmobile with twin double blower Hemis and its own mirrored ceiling, and we'll talk
1960s-70s show cars will eventually be recognized as the most important art movement of the 20th Century
Unlike the empty nihilism of other 20th Century art movements, show car artists explored important universal human themes; sex, poop, death, war, nationalism, using the unique and challenging medium of bitchin' blown Hemis
Not all 60s show cars were immobile chromed conversation pieces; my pal Dave also restored the Ice Truck (1967), designed by Ed Newton and built by Dan Woods, featuring an all aluminum blown Buick 215 out of Mickey Thompson dragster and IRS/IFS. Scary fast and corners too.
Forget the Munster Koach, Dragula, and the Monkeemobile, the finest weirdo 60s Barris car was the Raiders Coach, built in '66 for Paul Revere & the Raiders. 2 injected 389 Pontiac motors on a drive unit pulling a stage coach via 5th wheel gooseneck.
This is what rock & roll style was like before the insipid Summer of Love folk rock hippies came along the next year and ruined everything
call me a Philistine, but I'll take the James Bond-Batman-beach movie-monster mania-garage rock-go go boots-show car 60s over the LSD-filthy Haight Asbury hippie-STD-folky jam band-paisley painted VW bus 60s.
ANY DAY.
ANY DAY.
Paul Revere & the Raiders, "SS 396," made as a promotional 45 single in 1965 for Chevy dealers. Flip side was "Corvair Baby." Better than anything ever made by the Grateful Dead
By 1969 Pontiac signed the Raiders away from Chevrolet to extol the virtues of the GTO Judge over the Chevelle 396. I can imagine this triggered some fierce battles among GM's various marketing departments
True story: Paul Revere & the Raiders campaigned for The Penguin on Batman
Which I believe brings this entire thread to a perfect full circle denouement
