Also from my closet: my custom hippy-dippy, New Agey Hillman Minx

Once upon a time, my sister and I created a paracosm centered around the Kings, a family consisting of the most powerful, magical and 51% evil individual in the universe and his three half-alien, half-Earthling daughters, the younger of which were a set of Mary Sue self-insert identical twins. The Kings regularly traveled through space and/or time, meeting fictional characters, ridding the world of menaces and going on sarcastic, parodic tangents.

Back in 1996, we did an adventure for them called Operation WAWBAB. An egregiously obnoxious family, the Wallis-Budges, moved across the street from the Kings. Offended by their egregious obnoxiousness, the Kings employed many creative, non-magical devices to evict the Wallis-Budges from their neighborhood. The Wallis-Budges did not budge…

…Until the Kings threw a dinner party on par with that of the Rocky Horror Picture Show [which, incidentally, we didn't know about at that time]. Each of the Kings decided to embody the stereotypical fashions and mannerisms of a different late 20th century decade. The patriarch, for some reason, targeted the 1960s, as interpreted by New Age sensibilities. To complete the characterization, he included in the driveway a VW MicroBus and a Hillman Minx, both decked out in, uh, weird paraphernalia.

Now, as far as my sister and I were concerned, the Hillman Minx was the funniest car in existence, thanks to its immortalization in a Dave Barry column as "a wart-shaped British car with the same rakish, sporty appeal as a municipal parking garage but with not as much pickup." Therefore, at some point, I decided to make a custom scale model of it. Since I could not find a small-scale Hillman Minx, I had to make do with a Volkswagen Beetle. Just pretend it's a Hillman Minx, okay?

As we approach from the front, take time to admire the hood's homage to the indispensible hippie triad: PEACE, LOVE and GRANOLA.

Notice the Grateful Dead bear, surrounded by comets and shooting stars, on the top.

From the left side, you can see more of that groovy kind of love, along with one of the surviving smiley face hubcaps. [The car has been around the block a few times.]

Opening the front door shows that that seats have been upholstered with tie-dyed fabric. [Yes, those are actual swatches of fabric taken from one of my actual shirts.]

There are crystals hanging from the rear view mirror, presumably to recalibrate your aura or something.

The right side sports a CHI WHIZ! bumper sticker and also advertises BEGINNERZ' CRYSTALZ: E-Z 4 U 2 USE. I assume those are E-Z Crystalz on the rear view mirror.