Do you remember Wild Bill Knowles and his rotisserie pickup truck yard decoration from last Halloween? He's had a year to think about how to make it bigger and better. How about launching it into space? To do so, Bill had to establish his own space agency, the Darwin Award Space Agency, or DASA. He hired a bunch of skeletons he knew, and rigged up a launch pad to send his Chevy S-10 pickup on a mission to Mars!
This is one elaborate setup. At 30 feet tall, the "launch pad" can support 16,000 pounds. Bill did all the work, except for getting a friend with a tow truck to set the angle at a proper 60 degrees. This display contains:
1 1999 S-10 Pickup
2 55-gallon drums
1 plastic injection molding machine hopper
over 1000 feet of extension cord
15 spotlights
9 skeletons
assorted retired automation equipment
1 abandoned 20-foot trailer
$500 in lumber
1 Badlands 12,000-lb winch
12 volt car battery and charger
safety chain, just in case.
150-foot fence
2000 string lights
2 fog machines
4 "Fire" lights
and 1 Crazy Engineer.
After all that work, he only has to push one button to set the display into motion. If you're anywhere near Berkshire County in Massachusetts, you need to find this display while it's up during the month of October. -Thanks, Bruce!