Welcome to the house of fun! Wolverhampton business goes one step beyond for Madness racecourse show
A Black Country mechanic has gone 'one step beyond' by transforming a van into an unusual musical creation.
Neil Turner is known in Wolverhampton for creating the weird and the wonderful with an array of vehicle modifications.
An Express & Star appeal in January 2017 asked readers to track down the owner of a 'grass van' that was spotted in the city.
Responses quickly came flooding in naming Neil, and his garage Neil's Autos, as the creator.
But the grass van was only the beginning as Neil and his team, at the garage on Newbridge Street, had built an aeroplane car, a canal boat and speed boat car as well as a horse motorbike.
Now, ahead of tonight's Madness gig at Wolverhampton Racecourse, the 63-year-old from Codsall transformed his famous grass van into a Madness mural.
Neil said: "We just keep changing the theme of it and as we're going to the concert, we thought we'd dress it up as Madness.
"He was Elvis Presley last week - it just keeps changing.
"It's for the business I suppose, people know about it and it helps is I think, it gets us known as we're tucked away and don't get much passing trade.
"It's a bit of fun too and takes a couple nights to put together - the circumference of his head is 10ft, so it took a lot of wood to make the fez - it's big.
"I saw Madness a few weeks back at Newbury Racecourse, in Berkshire, and when I realised they were in Wolverhampton I thought I'd do the van up and go see them.
"We'll keep changing it and Halloween is probably next, so I'll make him into Chucky.
"I've done Trump before when he first came in, so I might do Boris soon.
"It makes people laugh and smile, the speakers on the van play Madness music, as it was with Elvis last week."
