It’s not hard to find strange, homemade cars on American roads, but they’re not always legal. A couple of motorists recently found out when an Oklahoma State Police trooper she pulled them over in their ‘flying saucer’ car, which features a flip-up cockpit dome and glossy body panels.
Built on a 1991 Geo Subwaythe car really looks like a flying saucer on the road, but although the builder, Dennis Bellows, studied the rule book during his build, he could not take every aspect into account traffic lawThe driver, Steve Anderson, committed a lane violation, prompting a warning from the officer, who was the fourth officer to stop the saucer on its way from Indianapolis to the Roswell UFO Festival in New Mexico. Anderson said he’s loved aliens since he was 8, which inspired him to pay Bellows to build the strange creation.
Two people in the cockpit greeted the officer, with Anderson flashing the Vulcan hand salute from Star Trek. Although the car received a lot of police attention on the way to the festival, it was met by officers from Roswell who knew the car had arrived.
It took Bellows eight months of nighttime work to finish the car. The bubble roof had to be formed by hand, with Bellows heating pieces of plexiglass to create the dome. The interior has custom rocker switches and stock car stuff like turn signal stalks, but there’s no word on whether there’s air conditioning to handle the likely high heat from the plexiglass. While there is a horn, the OEM tone has been replaced with a laser sound.
Anderson had been to the festival before, but this was the first year he took the UFO on a tripHis run-ins with the law have given him quite a sense of humor about the car, as he’s said to occasionally issue a fake driver’s license listing himself as “Al Ien” and telling officers his home planet is Krypton.