Other than dear journeys to Common Studios and the odd Spanish “Krasty Burger” location, it’s principally unimaginable for us people to enter the cartoon world of The Simpsons. That being stated, one fortunate particular person someplace in America is driving round in Homer Simpson’s automotive, hopefully preserving their eyes peeled for chestnut timber.
For the complete time that the present has been on the air, Homer has been driving round in his trademark pink sedan, though there’s been some debate as to what sort of automotive it’s precisely. One fan wiki web page referred to as it a “1973 Plymouth Valiant” till a Season 28 episode referred to it as a “1986 Plymouth Junkerolla.” Oh, and it was apparently inbuilt Croatia utilizing “previous Soviet tanks.”
Simpsons followers not too long ago observed that simply final month, a precise reproduction of Homer’s automotive was listed on the market in Muskegon, Michigan, in keeping with an advert posted on Fb Market. The modified 1967 Plymouth Valiant got here with a $25,000 price ticket and is presently listed as “offered.”
The advert famous that it was one in every of two Simpsons vehicles that the vendor labored on, and incorporates each element a die-hard would anticipate — from the crinkled fender to the bent antennae. He even put in {custom} bench seating with “TV matched shade and stitching,” and outfitted it with canonically-appropriate “Junkerolla” emblems. It’s fairly spectacular.
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The automotive’s creator, Tim Updyke, advised a neighborhood information station that he didn’t intend to promote the automotive over Fb, he was simply “kind of displaying it off.” However the first of the 2 vehicles he modded did find yourself promoting there as a result of somebody reached out and emphatically advised him: “I have to have that factor.”
Updyke, who’s additionally created custom-made Jurassic Park Jeeps and ECTO-1s, now says that the second Simpsons automotive will probably be headed to the Volo Automotive Museum in Illinois for everybody to get pleasure from.
After all, this isn’t the primary time that one in every of Homer’s vehicles has been dropped at life by followers. In 2013, a group competing within the “24 Hours of LeMons” race — like Le Mans, however with goofier vehicles — constructed a recreation of “The Homer,” Homer’s ridiculous automotive design that bankrupted his half-brother Herb. It even got here with a Squishee holder and a “Bort” license plate.
The actual-life automotive earned reward from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, who signed the fan-made “Homer,” and author Al Jean, who really went for a journey within the cursed automobile.
However “The Homer” solely confirmed up that one time, Homer’s sedan has been in nearly each episode. So it might be fairly cool to personal.
Whereas we don’t know who purchased the primary Simpsons automotive on Fb, hopefully they manage to pay for left over to purchase that “90 p.c regular” Simpsons reproduction home in Nevada so as to full the set.
