Can anyone help identify this historic vehicle?

UmmYeahOk

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I was watching Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) on Disney+ tonight, knowing very well how this movie was filmed at MGM Studios (DHS) before the park opened, and I noticed a certain logo on a vehicle that was intended to be a background prop for a different (fake) production company in the movie, Diamond World Productions, (Diamond World/Disney World?).

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https://www.imcdb.org/v564416.html
Vehicle enthusiasts on that site don’t seem to know what it is, and don’t even think it’s a car at all, since it lacks a steering wheel (though the vehicle does indeed have a steering device that predates the invention of a wheel)

There also appears to be a drum in the background inside, which looks identical to the drums used to release balloons on Main Street during the 1971 WDW Grand Opening. Being that this movie was released to theaters 17 years after, it’s quite possible that is, in fact, one of the drums.

I can’t seem to find this car in any parade though. Why was it painted pink? Seems like it might’ve been used in an Easter parade of sorts given the color, but I can’t find it being used on YouTube. Could it be the exact car here, in Disneyland?
https://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/true-love-at-park-walt-and-lillian.htmlI have noticed a similar, if not exact car used for various celebrity transportation at Disneyland. Might’ve it been transported to WDW for similar events? I know Disney has a history of painting props to be displayed in various ways on the property such as the Flight of the Navigator ship and Dream Finders Dream Machine, hiding in plain sight despite its important history. Could this be parked today at some resort? Or locked up in some boneyard?
 

Now I wonder how many of this model were made, or if we’re just seeing the same car over and over again.
 
Now I wonder how many of this model were made, or if we’re just seeing the same car over and over again.
Here's a picture of the Citizens of Hollywood posing with two of them. I could be wrong, but I suspect that Disney has built several of these based on Bob Gurr's original design. The blue car in this picture has a different logo than the blue car in my previous picture, and the white car has a different upholstery color than the ones posted by mom2rtk and klmall, so I can't tell if they're the same blue and white cars.

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