But Is It Art?
Published: May 15th, 2010
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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.