{"id":2625,"date":"2012-09-11T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2012-09-11T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:15:00","slug":"also-from-my-closet-my-custom-hippy-dippy-new-agey-hillman-minx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/09\/11\/also-from-my-closet-my-custom-hippy-dippy-new-agey-hillman-minx\/","title":{"rendered":"Also from my closet: my custom hippy-dippy, New Agey Hillman Minx"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

…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,<\/a> both decked out in, uh, weird paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

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."<\/a> 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<\/i> it's a Hillman Minx, okay?<\/p>\n

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

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Notice the Grateful Dead bear, surrounded by comets and shooting stars, on the top.<\/p>\n

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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.]<\/p>\n

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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.]<\/p>\n

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There are crystals hanging from the rear view mirror, presumably to recalibrate your aura or something.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Bumper stickers on the rear proclaim I AM THE WALRUS and THINK OM! [The smiley face in the O is very important.]<\/p>\n

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Let's have another shot of the interior.<\/p>\n

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The Hillman Minx in all its glory. STOP LAUGHING! :p<\/p>\n

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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… Continue reading Also from my closet: my custom hippy-dippy, New Agey Hillman Minx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}