When Leah arrived at work directing traffic around a construction site, she never expected to see a van painted in all sorts of bright colours, and covered in eclectic decorations, including a stuffed moose attached to its roof.
“I think it’s awesome,” she smiles, while taking pictures of the vehicle. “I think it’s very unique.”
While many of the people who stopped to look at the one-of-a-kind vehicle call it “artistic,”, its creator didn’t at first.
“I didn’t think of myself as an artist,” Lyle Brown-John says, adding that he worked as a grocery store baker for 35 years. “We were a bit creative decorating cakes and so forth.”
But his cakes never inspired so many strangers to stop and take countless pictures.
“I’m like, ‘Whoa!’” A woman laughs after taking a drive-by photo of the Lyle’s van. “‘What was that?!”
It was a 1951 Austin Panel Van, until Lyle …