What's the story with the driving couch?!
So you might have seen me on the Highway or on Jay Leno's Garage so I guess you've got questions...
Well, I designed and built the Casual Lofa, for no particular reason other than sometimes, things like this just need to exist! It's based on a classic Mini (1275cc automatic) and it is fully street legal, having gone through the DVLA (like the DMV) testing process to become registered as a custom build car in the UK.
It was shipped to the US to be on the CTEK booth at the 2019 SEMA show in Las Vegas and then we just cruised around on a road trip vacation before we went back to the UK. To find out how (and maybe why) I built this and other crazy cars like it, you should buy my book ‘Grease Junkie: A Book Of Moving Parts’ here...
Sofari California 1: Picking up the Casual Lofa from Shawn Davis at Autotopia - first test drive after some post shipping fettling. ‘Yes Shawn, it really is street legal, even in California!’...
Sofari California 2: Hollywood Bound; Edd China drives his Casual Lofa sofa car up to the Hollywood sign.
Sofari California 31: Out 'n' about for some classic Californian cuisine, before our long journey home to Blighty. ...’til next time’...
Sofari California 1: Picking up the Casual Lofa from Shawn Davis at Autotopia - first test drive after some post shipping fettling. ‘Yes Shawn, it really is street legal, even in California!’...