Find Inner Carpool with Buddha Buggy

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The Buddha Buggy art car a 1987 Honda CRX HF is brought to you by Photographer, Filmmaker and Graphic Larry Neilson

I love my car because:
it has been solidly dependable over 17 years and 245,000 miles. It's small and maneuverable, great for slipping into tight parking spaces. And of course that gas mileage is a big plus these days. I have decorated the car to show my reverence for Buddha (and irreverence for other things) and have shown it at the San Jose Museum of Art and the Tacoma Art Museum art car shows, among other places.

Legally Blind 7-Year Old Loves to Draw Art Cars

Corey Graves is an amazing 7-year-old from Sabin Elementary School who just loves to draw art cars. When asked how he gets his ideas he said:

"I've got to get a brainstorm in my head," which then goes "boom!" and is followed by "lightning pops!" and, "then whoop! Here comes a car outta my head."

The most amazing thing about him is that Corey is considered legally blind because of a genetic vision disability. His hand starts moving with deliberate motions. He draws a squarish shape, then moves the pencil up to draw windows, then adds details. He is quiet, still and totally focused on his creation. more via

Fantasy Porsche Art Car by Wendy Johnson

This Fantasy Porsche Art Car was sent in by Wendy Johnson a Designer and Illustrator who happened to find ACC. Welcome to ACC Wendy and we hope that one day your fanatsy art car may one day become a reality.

Wendy's Fantasy Porsche Art Car.

Hi, I found your blog while looking for patterned car reference ... I was working on an illustration for a client. I ended up spending a good part of my afternoon looking at the pictures and links. It was great fun to sit here in my studio and laugh all afternoon, so thanks! I had to forward your link to just about all of my illustrator/designer friends.

I do a little graphic design, sometimes illustration, but mostly surface pattern design for home furnishings. I am attaching part of the illustration I made last week. It is just a fantasy art car. Maybe someday I will find the time to paint my real car.

I just just love your blog, and your car.

-Wendy

Short Lived Art Car Lives for a Day - Poor Racer

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This Poor-Racer Art Car sculpture will exist for just 24 hours, - from midnight Saturday 14 March to midnight Sunday 15 March. Thats a longer life span than most flies.

The dramatically customised car is typical of Hirschhorn’s low budget transformations, and Poor-Racer has been developed specifically for Christchurch as part of the New Zealand-wide One Day Sculpture series. Hirschhorn says it references the global enthusiasm for car customisation evident in the lowered, louder, brighter and bolder DIY modifications seen parading city streets.

Art Car Transformed by talented high schoolers - Jeffrey "Hippie" Morris

Carolyn Marcantel sent me this write up about some very talented High Schoolers and their Art Car Project called Jeffrey "Hippie" Morris that they are getting ready for the Houston Art Car Parade May of 2009. The car is not complete but they have done a lot of work so far. It's neat to watch an art car in the process and I am looking forward to seeing the video and the completed pictures of the car. All the best to you all and great job.

The Automotive Collision & Repair students in the Hurst Euless Bedford Independent School District , a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas, are in the midst of transforming a 1983 Toyota pick-up into a "boat-extraordinaire" complete with a trailing shark. With an anticipated completion date of sometime in late April, the HEB ISD Art Car will make its debut this May in Houston's Annual Art Car Parade. The truck was donated to the students by the family of the late Jeffrey H. Morris, a local gifted musician and artist whoprematurely lost his life due to cancer on Halloween night, 2008.

The family wanted to do something meaningful with the pick-up that had originally belonged toJeffrey's grandfather. It was full of sentimental value, but otherwise, what do you do with a rusty,worn-thru pickup with over 300,000 miles it? Make it into an Art Car, of course! 

Carolyn Marcantel, a family friend of the Morris family and webmaster for HEB ISD, took the idea to auto collision teacher, Eric Stevens, and from there the dots have not stopped connecting as students, teachers, volunteers, and the business community have rallied around to make this special memorial project a reality. Because there is no budget for "art cars" in district funds, the project has been entirely dependent on donations in the form of metal, paint, vinyl and other supplies. It is also the goal of the newly established HEB ISD Art Car Committee to raise the necessary funds to ensure each student involved in the project be able to make the trip to Houston to participate in the parade. 

The entire four-month process is currently being documented on an HEB ISD district blog, complete with weekly updates and a plethora of photos to follow along as the project takes form. Video footage is also being logged for a documentary that will be produced after the parade. The ultimate theme of the boat will pay tribute to the lifestyle of Jeffrey "Hippie" Morris, to include fishing, guitars, peace signs and lots of psychedelic color.

Donk Limo Madness Super Mod

What can I say about this totally crazy custom limo with the suspension and super large rims. I don't even know what to call all the parts but it sure is over the top.

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Thousands of Unsold Parked Cars Look Like Art

First the bad news, due to the down turn in the economy thousands of cars just sit parked in lots across the world. The good news is that thousands of unsold cars look like giant pieces of pixelated art from above. In a weird way kind of way they actually look amazing. Maybe these entire lots of cars can be sold as art and just left there to transform into rust over time. Now that would an amazing time lapse movie to watch.





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