I do ever more trawling through my photo-archives, and every time I do this, I seem to come across more Wicked Campervans, Wicked Campervans that I have not shown on a blog before, like (I’m pretty sure) these two, which I photoed in the summer of 2014:
I don’t really understand either of these WCVs, but the one on the right has definitely non-human creatures on it, so it’s suitable for a Friday here.
I miss these vans a lot. They used to live not far from Lower Marsh, where I used to go to buy second-hand CDs. And there was a brief time when they used to congregate in Lower Marsh itself, in a piece of dead land now built upon to a much more lucrative purpose.
That arrangement was never going to last, and they’ve now moved up north.
The picture on the back of the van on the left is Dick Dastardly, anti-hero of Hanna-Barbera’s late 60’s children’s cartoons Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. Dastardly was partly based on Terry-Thomas and Muttley was his dog so a tangential connection to Creature Friday.
Alastair
Thanks. Good to know. I know very little of the characters of whom you write, but am glad to be told of them.
When I was a kid I loved TV, but I never took to children’s TV, probably because I was a bit too old when my family finally got itself a TV. Or I thought I was. For me, TV was for learning about the world out there. When I merely wanted to be entertained I would read things. Things like the Doctor Doolittle books, the original non-Eddie Murphey versions, as written by Hugh Lofting.