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You see a fair amount of customization among the inmates of a high-turnover, self-service wrecking yard; sometimes it’s a full-on time-capsule RX-7 and sometimes it’s the kind of thing Manny, Moe, and Jack would build after a week-long ether-and-DMT binge. Here’s a fairly well-executed, if puzzling, airbrush mural I spotted at a Denver yard a few months back.
Even with the swastika vandalization— which may have hastened the depreciation of this truck’s value and helped lead to its junkyardization— you can make out some weird details on the subject’s face. There’s a certain air of Juggaloism in the semi-clownlike makeup, but what does the “Under Oath” caption mean?
If only junkyard vehicles could talk!
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“There is nothing as helpless and irresponsible as a man in the depths of an ether binge”. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
It does help take the edge off of the DMT but it takes weeks to get the smell out of the carpet in the footwells.
This is Dia De Los Muertos artwork. It’s a Mexican thing. Hence the Nazi racist defacing.
I’m waiting for a story… :)
Not enough car or pics for a proper CSI.
Looks like remnants (tape) of what was probably a chrome gas door cover. Story would probably have a well-integrated Mexican-American playing the part of the protagonist, and struggling with repetitive ignition coil failures on the Triton 5.4, a balky column shifter preventing starting, and some balljoint action.
See the creativity is already building, Crab spirits. Tell us more about the protagonist.
As long as he buys the el cheapo eBay coils, and they all fail.
That makes sense. I thought it was a juggalo painting and the swastika was just part of the art.
Of course it’s Mexican. I can’t think of another demographic group that would drive a 15-year-old Expedition with an airbrushed mural on it!
Art is always so subjective ~
Someone put a lot of thought & effort into that air brushed mural then a knuckle dragging drooler came along and put an incorrectly drawn swastika on it , thereby proving once again that The National Socialist White People’s Party (betcha didn’t know the America nazi party’s full name didja ?) are indeed mostly retards and sub humans .
A friend of mine collects old custom painted Moto gas tanks , most are bugger all ugly but still interesting to look at .
-Nate
The swastika was probably carved in there while it was in the junkyard. At least, the part of me that wants to retain some faith in humanity hopes so…
It most likely was done within the relatively safe confines of the junkyard. Doing that on the street is a great way of finding out if the owner or friends of the owner are gang affiliated or just willing to break some bones in retaliation.
Nate is doing satire, I must presume.
They went through a couple of names, all of them quite stupid, but that one was definitely the most amusing.
It was either some guy looking at his own in a mirror or a REALLY overeager Buddhist
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Rather than sparing it from the crusher, I’m pretty sure that mural is one of the primary reasons that truck is where it is right now.
Car murals aren’t really my scene, but whoever did this one put a lot of time, effort and talent into that. Kinda surprised the ‘gate was still there. Garage art, anyone?
Underoath were a Christian Metalcore band. Although I’m not sure if that’s what the presumably Mexico-affiliated owner of this vehicle had in mind when he put that on…