The front wheel drive two seater is powered by a two-cylinder 602 cc engine that puts out about 26 horsepower that Bayma has pushed up to about 55 mph.

'That's all the courage I have,' said Bayma, who works at the General Motors test track.

'It gets pretty spooky at that speed. I'm not sure I could take an Isetta or Vespa in a drag race, but that's OK. I don't have speed, I have style.'

Bayma saw the vehicle on eBay and bought it 'when his wife wasn't around.'

'The car was created in England basically as a tax dodge,' Bayma said.

'They were taxing cars based on the number of wheels they had, so somebody came up with a three-wheeled car. I've driven it in the Woodward Dream Cruise for the past seven or eight years and boy does it get the looks. In fact, one time a guy was looking at it so hard that he walked into a tree.'

If all of this isn't enough to make the average cruiser 'scratch glass and turn blue,' the Lomax also sports another unique feature: it's autographed by 'The Ghoul,' Metro Detroit's favorite curator of all that is cheesy and tacky.

'I met him at a car show in Clawson a few years ago and had him sign the car,' Bayma said.

'When people ask me, 'does it have a hemi?' I tell them 'no, it has a ghoul.''

A Bentley for $15,000

At the far, far end of the tacky scale is Plymouth resident Jamie Flora, who will grace the Woodward Dream Cruise in his 1960 Bentley, thank you very much.

'My wife and I were married in 1985 and we went to Europe on our honeymoon,' said Flora, who is a custom home builder.

'The English pound had dropped so much it was almost even with the dollar. It was always my dream to own a Rolls Royce, so I thought now was the time to do it. Unfortunately I couldn't find a RR for sale, so I bought the Bentley for $15,000. We drove it around Europe and then I shipped it home for $2,000.'

According to Flora, the Bentley was stored (in pieces) in a garage for the next 17 years.

'It needed some work and I intended to get it done, but with a job and five kids, I just never got around to it. Then my daughter got engaged and said she'd like to ride in it for her wedding.'

That was enough for Flora, who started to restore the car with the help of friends.

'I learned that the RR and the Bentley are really overly built,' Flora said.

'They're just massive; running boards and big fenders. I remember taking off a simple bracket and it weighed about eight pounds. Everything is like that, which is why it weighs nearly 5,000 pounds.'

The vehicle -- one of only 1,865 built that year -- is also unbelievably plush.

'The interior is walnut wood trim and inlaid with mother of pearl,' Flora said.

'There are fold down picnic tables on the back of the seats, all in walnut. On the back of the seats, next to your head, are little art deco mirrors with frosted glass. You half expect to see Winston Churchill riding in it.'

The car also has miles of top grain leather on its interior ... which was a problem for Flora's daughter and her fiance.

'They're both vegans,' Flora said.

'They aren't allowed to touch leather, so I had to put sheets across the seats.'

Flora and his family will be glide majestically in their Bentley in the Woodward Dream Cruise, and hopefully no one will ask them if they have any 'Grey Poupon.'

'Fortunately that hasn't happened yet,' Flora said.

'It's a wonderful, fun car. Hey, who wants to be normal?'