A PEMBROKESHIRE car fanatic had a brush with rock royalty last week, as he spent the afternoon filming in London with Alice Cooper.

Tony Deluca’s gothic limousine, a converted 1977 Cadillac Hearse, features on BBC2’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks tonight (Monday).

The haunting vehicle is used in a spoof to introduce the rock legend to the show.

The limo pulls away in a blaze of dry ice and purring engine to reveal Cooper sat on a Boris Bike, the London mayor’s cycle hire answer to congestion in the capital.

Tony spent the afternoon filming with the shock rocker.

“He is a really, really nice man,” said Tony. “He is so down to earth it’s untrue.

He’s amazing, just an ordinary bloke.

“Quite a crowd gathered during filming and he spent time with them signing autographs and taking pictures. It wasn’t a problem.

“I was brought up on Alice Cooper.

He’s a legend. It was one of those opportunities you couldn’t miss.”

The star loved the 22ft long converted hearse, which is fitted out with a shocking sound system, black upholstery and funereal flowers. He even signed the interior, which now boasts the graffiti ‘Alice Cooper was here’.

“He looked at the car and said to me ‘you’ve got a weird mind,’ said Tony.

“I thought that was great coming from him, this is the man who used to bite off chicken’s heads on stage.”

For more information on Tony’s cars visit: www.gothiclimousines.co.uk.