Steve and Spade Braithwaite are making a film documentary about building a huge banana car and driving it around the world. 

Based in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, the Braithwaite brothers are presently remodeling a 1993 Ford F-150 pick-up truck  and converting it into the shape of an enormous banana on wheels (progress photo at right).  When completed it will feature a bright yellow skin exterior.

One of their planned routes would start in Pennsylvania and take them through New York to Southampton (England), Chunell to France, Italy, Austria. Slovenia, Bosnia to Bulgaria or Hungary, Romania to Bulgaria, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Across the Caspian Sea to Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan and then either Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan or Tajikistan to the Chinese border and across China and back to the USA.

Along the way, they will be accepting passengers for a donation of $1 or $2 a mile with half of the money going to DVT awareness (Deep Vein Thrombosis).  Sadly, their mother died of DVT on a flight from England to the USA.

For more information about how you can hop a ride on the historic Big Banana Car Drive Around The World (and support a good cause), please visit the Braithwaite brothers at Big Banana Car.