We got Mavis running in the beginning of 2020 just before the pandemic hit. A few years of COVID and Cancer ensued and it wasn’t until July of last summer that we were able to actually drive her. Although definitely not ‘street legal’, Mavis has her tires on, brakes working and a steering wheel. Good enough for us! We threw a couple milk crates in, covered them with furniture pads for Pop’s bony butt and off we went.

I chose to ‘let’ Pop take the wheel first time out seeing that I could barely reach the pedals and if so, had no leverage. Hold up, that’s total BS. We really had no clue what to expect and if things went tits up, I wanted Pop manning the ship. The man can drive anything. So without further ado, here is Mavis’s first official test drive!

As I’ve said, I just feel that Mavis has a very real chance of exploding at any time. So when we started EXCESSIVELY BACKFIRING I figured that was it…we were going to die. Hence my panic. I gotta get way cooler if I’m going to pull his whole retro car thing off. I’ll tell you though, it’s something to actually build a car with your own hands and realize, “holy shit, it’s working!” And because Pop’s face at the end of the video is so filled with pride and joy, here it is again. Good times.