Just another one of those ersatz "Trolley" motorized vehicles that are running around the streets hauling tourists. Nothing historical here. Seems to have been more of a movie prop than an actual conveyance.

It looks to me like a historic car remounted on a Chrysler chassis. I think at one time someone did something similar with an ex-PE car.

It looks to me like a historic car remounted on a Chrysler chassis. I think at one time someone did something similar with an ex-PE car.

Before the line closed, the Waterfront Red Cars comprised three tram cars in the style of the originals. Two of the three Red Cars—the replica cars, numbers 500 and 501[5] — were built from scratch by employees of the port of Los Angeles; the interiors are cooled using the same clerestory-style windows as the original 500-class Red Cars (“The Fives”). The third car, No. #1058, was a vintage Pacific Electric 950-class car,[5] having been assembled from two wrecked 950-class cars by Richard J. Fellows, restored for parades, movies, and the like, and then cleverly converted to be steered with the original throttle as a tiller and braked by the original brake handle; the original dead man pedal operated the gasoline engine throttle, which powered the rubber tires. The Port of Los Angeles bought the car and converted it back for rail operation as a charter service.