Every walk of life relates to cars,” Anna says. And it’s also about the connections she makes along the way. “It’s these little people,” Anna motions to the costumed kids running around smiling and shouting. While Anna’s dealership recognizes her on the spot (“Oh my god, it’s you again!”), for her, it’s really about the joy it brings to young fans. With such striking modifications, it should come as no surprise these vehicles get quite the reaction. The mechanics of it all are on its second version, with a third, new-and-improved mechanism in the works.
Her BB-8-inspired Volkswagen features a giant rotating head (which started as a prototype radar dome cover), controlled via her phone. “At that point, as a car person, which is a deep, deep thing in my family, I’m like, ‘I need to do something that gets me out of the house and out of kid-mode.’…So I decided to do this.” “I saw all the cars there, including the Hot Wheels Darth Vader car,” she says. Happy beeps: Anna Sawyer and her BB-8-inspired car.įor Anna Sawyer, family was also a theme that inspired her to join Road Squadron, but also a trip to Celebration Orlando in 2017. For father-son duo Jeff and Sparrow Donoho, their Ghost -inspired vehicle was a two-year labor of love. For Crosby, his G-Wing took about three months. This includes schematics that detail the taping and line work that goes into the cars’ transformations. In modding the cars, Road Squadron members often start designing in Photoshop. “In a lot of cases, we’ll pick a character or a ship we really like and use that as a theme,” Shawn explains. While his last car, a Nissan 350z called “The Z-Wing,” ended in a blaze of glory (its engine finally gave out), Shawn quickly moved on to yet another mod, this time inspired by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Jedi starfighter, called “The G-Wing.” “We’ve gone from being a scrappy little group of two to, like, eight, to now…over 300 people.” “We have the best time, we’ve been doing it for more than 20 years,” Shawn says.
Shawn Crosby (“Obi-Shawn”) is the founder of the group, which started in 1999. Road Squadron’s Shawn Crosby ready to make the jump.
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