Best Ever: Ten Amazing Art Cars
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was designed and created back in 1955, and it’s one of the more storied Mercedes to have ever been made. Only two of them were produced, but that didn’t stop three friends from creating their own version from scratch. The car is made completely from scrap and weighs only a little over 2000 pounds.
This car’s name is Sonja and it’s turned quite a few heads while rolling through the town of Oppdal, Norway. It’s a 1982 Simca Talbot and was made by knitting-veterans Mary, Sonja Shoes Heim, and Brit Elin Ronning, who decided to graduate to knitting a car after having so much success with bicycles.
The Kang Shoe Company is based out of Wenzhou in China, and to drum up brand recognition, their marketing department got to work making a 10 foot long shoe car. It cost them around $7000 and took about 6 months to make. It’s made with real leather, too.
The Mad Max Post-Apocalypse Car
This car was spotted down at the Burning Man festival in the year 2000. It’s been heavily customized and looks like a desert cruiser from Star Wars was crash landed into the thunderdome.
Singing bass heads were a popular gag gift to give out a few years back, and a team of over thirty people help put together this car, which is completely covered by over 250 singing fish and lobsters. The choir is constantly being fine tuned, as each of the originally independent devices is now computer controlled for synchronicity.
This car’s been around for a while. It was built in 1996 from an old 1923 Ford T-bucket for around $4000 by Art Baker and Bob Castaneda.
This is a 96 Geo Metro that’s covered in over $200 worth of pennies, which really isn’t a bad deal for a paint job, but it does add over 100 extra pounds to the overall load.
This is a 1970 Volkswagon Beetle that’s been expertly transformed into Kiss-star Gene Simmons done up in full war paint. It even comes standard with protruding tongue, flared nostrils, and life-like hair.
A Detroit based court officer became the new owner of this interesting art car after finding it in a garage one day while out doing his job, evicting people who are living in foreclosed homes. There were more cars than that in the garage, and he hopes to one day find their owner.
Advertising is always something that Mini has been great at, and for 2011, the New Zealand advertising branch came up with the unique idea of gluing 300 harmonicas to the outside of it to see how it’d sound, you can listen yourself here.
