Psychedelic Porsche Art Car

Margaret Warren is an painter from Florida just finished painting her '65 Porsche 356 C Coupe and frankly it's simply stunning. She said that "Contrary to what most people think (that I was inspired to paint my own Porsche by Janis Joplin's famous Porsche) - I was actually inspired by my mother's work on an early 70's VW station wagon. Margaret you have done a great job and welcome to the art car scene, we hope to see you soon.






Photos From Porsche Art Car

Mini Art Car Covered in Swarovski Crystals

A Swarovski-covered Crystal Mini Cooper is displayed at the 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' museum, in central London,on August 21, 2008. Famous for being weird, strange and bizarre, the new attraction opened on August 20, 2008. AFP PHOTO/Shaun Curry

Art Cars Invade the Sac Auto Show

H1 Humvee Art Car Cake for the Pen Guy:)

What else whould I want for my birthday than a home made art car cake. I started with one slab of yellow cake mix, small block of friendship cake and an assortment of candy. I had no idea what it would look like when I started building this thing but when I finished It ended up looking like a chopped down H1 Humvee, in retrospect I would gave added Ding-Dongs for the tires. It was good.

Bottle Cap Art Car

Stephanie made her 1993 Honda Accord into an art car - covering it with bottle caps we collected over the winter. A couple years ago, we went to Louisville, Kentucky for their annual Art Car Weekend, and had a blast. We were lucky enough to get much of the car finished to attend the Art Car Show this year.

We're replacing the Honda, which is her currently daily driver, with a new little VW Rabbit, which just arrived. The Honda is in pretty good shape, but just turned 200,000 miles and essentially has no trade-in value.

So there was no reason not to hold on to it and have some fun. Stephanie toyed with several different design ideas, but finally arrived at an intersection of the art car she's always wanted, and her childhood love of bottle caps. Her dad even dug her original collection out of the garage attic and brought them to us.

We collected and sorted bottle caps all winter long, with the help of friends and the nice folks at the restaurant Ralph's Great Divide.

We finished the project up on November 1st, so that we could turn the car over to her niece. We finished up the whole car except for the roof, and Raven will be working on that.

The project was lots of fun and really entertaining, and we're already planning to do another one.

Via Bottle Cap Art Car Project on Flickr

(sorry, I was too darn lazy to write so I cut and pasted the entire article)

Obamination Road Trip Comes To An End - What will they do now?

It's been a long four year election and this "Obamination" road trip has come to screeching halt. The election process produced one of the largest collection of Obama Art Cars which hit the road in support of the 44th President of the United States. President Elect Barrack Hussein Obama owes part of his election victory to a few of the most dedicated "Obamaniacs". The question now is: What will they do now, that the election is over? What will they drive? What about all that that extra time? What cause will give them back the will to live a normal life? What will they do with all those bumper stickers? The Onion did an expose they called "Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are" which I call "Post Traumatic Obama Syndrome" or PTOS.


Via the Onion

We Have Winner!!! - "The Thing" is Back Online

I thought it fitting to post this beautifully ugly vw car called "the thing" as a reminder to us all of what George Santayana once said: "Those who don't know their history are bound to repeat it."