Your Car Is A Blank Canvas, Park It & Go Nuts!

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I was driving down highway 55 today and aside from the usual odds, ends, freaks and geeks I usually see on the road (nose picking included), I saw a car completely hand painted with creepy clowns. It wasn't a promotional car either - I think this guy just really liked clowns and wanted to set himself apart from others on the road. 

Excuse me for asking, but what would compel someone to depreciate the value of their car by painting clowns on it? Do they also realize by doing so they've basically put a target on their backs for law enforcement? They'll see you a mile away! 

As soon as I got home from my drive, I searched the web to see if this clown car guy had any local postings of his car up. Sadly, I couldn't find anything, but I had a great time checking out all sorts of different "art cars" around the world. 

Here are some really neat art cars that I compiled from my web searches: 

This car was spotted in Minnesota. Turtle Power! Photo by William Wesen.

This is a car with bend spoons glued all over it. Apparently this guy, Uri Gellar, claims to bend spoons with his mind or something and then glued them to his ride. Odd! 

This car uses the force and anti-lock breaks. Once for sale on e-Bay, it was painted by Greatlakes Airbrush. 

This is definitely not your mom's van. A shuttle van, hell yeah! 

Not a typical toy car! Kathleen Pearson has over 4000 objects on the outside, 800 on the inside and a lot of glue on her old station wagon. 

This pink tank shoots hot dogs instead of bullets. Created by Vin Marshall.

Kool-Aid car: "Ooooooh yeahhh!" 

My dear family has a truck that we call "The Flying Phlegm" because the VanGogh's at Dodge thought it would be a good idea to paint a puke green snot design down the side of the truck. I wonder if with a few more modifications I could consider it an art car? Time to order that bedazzler! 

To check out a blog completely devoted to art cars everywhere, click here. 

St. Louis clown car guy, if you are out there, Shout! some pics of your car for us!