You couldn’t miss it: it’s 18 feet...

You couldn’t miss it: it’s 18 feet tall, covered with fan dancers, and probably the only vehicle in Southern California traveling at a mere 3 m.p.h.

The Korean-American community’s first Rose Parade float went for a midnight drive overnight Wednesday, from the float builder in Azusa to the pavilion near the Rose Bowl, where thousands of posies will be pasted, stuck and wired onto the float, populated by seven 18-foot-tall mechanical fan dancers and the Olympic rings.

Driving the float along surface streets on its rumbling 23-mile route are two people: the person who steers but can’t see the road, and the person who directs the driver--”the manual and the visual,” said a float builder.

The float was scheduled to pass through seven towns in seven hours. If it’s dawn, it must be Pasadena.