No details, no context, but this man was apparently pulled over by authorities for driving his motorized bath tub...while bathing in it. The contraption seems to be powered by a garden tiller motor — no doubt a Soviet-era two-stroke — and a misplaced perception of ingenuity. At least he had the good sense to wear a bathing suit under those bubbles.
Have you always admired the Alexander Calder 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL's style? Well, we've found the car for you! It's German, just like the CSL, but much more affordable. That's right, a 1970 VW Type III with a Calder-inspired custom paint job… and it actually looks great! Thanks to LTDScott for the tip! [Craigslist San Diego (go here if ad disappears)]
Most discussed Nurburgringer: While I applaud his sense of whimsy, that livery is better executed on this CSL belonging to a scandinavian ringer more »
Apparently we've got rocket cars coming out the wazoo lately. Here's a pretty slick one which, although not actually rocket equipped, has got so much Flash Gordon goodness baked into its dually driven chassis we can't help but admire it. There isn't a whole lot of info on this LA-area one-off, but it's got detail work that could only have come from a true aficionado of both car and rocket. Truly a masterpiece. (Thanks for the tips, DaveTheBrave and Mike)
The Splinter wooden supercar we saw last week is apparently going to be the second car bearing the foreboding moniker. Artist Isaac Cohen displayed his version of a wooden car named Splinter a couple of weeks ago at the Houston Art Car Parade. The gull-wing wonder is the result of thousands of hours of work and while we're not to certain about the styling direction, at least it doesn't have a Bangle-butt. We'd be intrigued to see what this thing does in a wind tunnel, but have our reservations about this Splinter's crash worthiness.
Here's another one from the "Ow, ow, ow, it burns make it stop" files. Pulled from a site possibly with origins in the former Soviet Socialist Republic, with absolutely no context or information, these pictures have us questioning the sanity of its maker. Talk all you want about "art cars", this is not art, it's evil. What kind of crazy person has six mufflers on their car? Sicko's have them, that's who. Last time we saw six mufflers on a car it was a malaise era Ford with more mufflers than pipe. What makes this even more ridiculous is the pictures appear to be taken in a tropical paradise of some sort. Where do you even get six exhaust pipes in a tropical paradise? UPDATE: It's in Bali. Sorry, we must have been hai. Gratuitous South Pacific reference added at no additional charge.
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!
Latest by takeshi: @wheels OF satan!: here is an "offical " museum of art cars
[www.artcarmuseum.com]
In my neighborhood, no less! Like anything else, more »
While trolling the tubes for more ZAZ-related goodness by searching for "запорожец" (Zaporozhets), we stumbled across this enigmatic camera-phone video of what appears to be a ZAZ completely covered with a nicely-applied coat of Astroturf. What are we to make of this, dear readers? Are these junior hoods gearing up to bash it into a suitable tree? You tell us!
We'll spot you the Fox Fairmont, and several of the others are slam-dunks for any semi-knowledgeable car geek. But who can identify all eight cars on the very famous Car Spindle, located in a shopping mall parking lot in Berwyn, Illinois? Come on, it's way more fun than slaving in The Man's vile salt mines on a fine Monday morning. – Murilee MartinMore »
I don't know that I can put this any better or crazier than the author of the source site has:
"One night In the fall of 1993, Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras and then drove around and took pictures of people on the streets. The public, unaware that the cameras worked, reacted naturally. At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures taken with the van of faces frozen in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful that the next morning he decided to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality."
Now take that dream, add 2000+ cameras, a bunch of wiring, and a flair for camera-based mosaic work and you get the camera van. I've got a ten spot that says this thing reeks of patchouli.– Ben WojdylaMore »
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