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Maybe I was disparaging about his efforts, I didn't intend to sound too mean. I'll grudgingly admit that I actually think it's quite a stylish effort for what it is.
However, as mentioned above, quite how it would need 16 years of designing. It's one off, granted, but isn't it not much more than a (presumably impeccably finished) elongated Land Rover with a bit of a flat bed? It does sound like an effort to burnish his reputation as a tinkerer / inventor.
Sounds like he was painstaking about it, for 16 years. However due to Covid it will now only drive him a few miles rather than the 30 it was designed to do. What use there is for it after I don't know.