These started out as leftover WWII Jeeps that the locals decorated with just about every stick-on trinket available at the local Pep Boys. These things provided (and I understand still provide) transportation day and night throughout the islands.
Houses were built on stilts to deal with both snakes and the flooding common in the area. This is on the way to Manila from Subic Bay.
The locals called these “caribou.” They were mainly used for cartage and tending to the fields.
Transport took lots of forms in those days.
It easily earns its moniker “rusty bubble”.
