While we have mixed feelings about the whole art-car thing (unless the vehicle in question is as undeniably awesome as the Camera van or the Pedal-Powered Buick, of course), it's always fun to find an art car in the junkyard. They really liven up the surroundings, and they inspire all sorts of heavy musings on the Place Of Art In Society. They're actually fairly common junkyard inhabitants around these parts, since we have plenty of artists and plenty of on-their-last-legs beaters to serve as canvases. Here's a nice beaded Tercel I spotted last weekend. Cecile and Alexia, your project will live on in our hearts, long after it's been crushed and shipped to China as scrap metal!

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