I made a sheet metal car body to go over me (legs hanging down) complete with working headlights, sound system playing the music from the movie, bouncing wheels on elastic springs, the correct license plate numbers (from the movie) a darkly tinted windshield so I could scare some with my make up face close to the window with a flashlight on myself.
I won nothing with all this effort because nobody but me , I guess, had seen the movie "Christine" yet!
I got comments like:"Oh, you work in a body shop?" (No sheet metal shop-furnaces)
"Are you supposed to be a 57 Chevy?" Other cars had tailfins too!
Like Plymouths!
As far as the winners who shouldn't be winning it is a gripe of mine when a bar has a costume contest and their best customer wins because he will be giving them back all the money as he drinks and buys for everyone, and they knew it was him because his naked face was sticking out of his costume, no make up!
going to the bar in your costume? Get ready to be frustrated.

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