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Two comments to this piece’s banner photo:
1. The GM Camo Engineer featured in yesterday’s piece on car disguises could take a lesson from the car in the banner photo …
2. Is this Volvo’s future design theme introduced by its new chinese owners?
Of course it’s art, and lots of fun. Who knows, we may have seen the next great design inspiration. (Or maybe not!)
Yes, it is.
One of my recurring desires is to purchase a ‘worthless’ car, paint it white (like a gesso-ed canvas) and paint on it with tempera paints. That way, once I’m tired of whatever I painted this time, I can take it to a high pressure car wash and blast it all away and start all over again.
Up until recently, though, I haven’t had a car that I could do this with. However the quarter-million mile Cavalier might be the one…
Well , it’s a lot better than some of the stuff in Art Galleries.
A pile of bricks anyone ? Or how about an unmade bed ?
Sure it’s art.
But will it blend?
I’m pretty picky, but very little of this compares with Janis Joplin’s Porsche, or with the art cars on my website (go to motorlegends.com, and click on “art cars). In particular, I dislike the motif of gluing plastic toys onto cars. (I blogged a Saab with a bunch of glued on toys on this site a couple of years ago.)
Nonetheless, this stuff is wacky and zany, and they are having a fun celebration, and maybe there were some really good ones that weren’t shown. I just might go to Houston some year for this.
If you’re asking if it’s art, then it’s art.
In the late ’60’s there was a VW bug running around the west side of Houston, representing a local wrought-iron business. The car was completely re-bodied in filigree wrought iron fencing and gate parts. it looked great but was probably a half ton heavier than the original body. Also, not much protection from Houston’s heat and thunderstorms. Crashworthiness unknown.
I forgot to mention the fleet of “bugs” operated by a pest-control company, fitted with tennis-racket ears and long mousy tails. In Houston, the exterminator doesn’t have to sneak around in camo.