I remember seeing one of those EKOs back in the first column (in the early 80s) that Teisco Del Rey (Dan Forte) did on oddball guitars for Guitar Player Magazine. According to him, they're great sounding for clean sounds, but the pickups are horribly microphonic if you crank things up for some dirt. In other words, nice for surf guitar (which is probably what they were originally intended for), and that's it. Buy it of you want to let your inner Los Straightjackets run free.
The body BTW, is made out of plastic. Nah, I think I'll pass on this one.