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I couldn't help my self when I found this car, covered in tin foil. It has a high rating on protecting you from alien rays but a very low road visibility safety rating. The car also comes with...


The tin foil cat owner and the cat


The tin foil home office


The tin foil dog


The tin foil front yard T-Rex sculpture


And the tin foil abba album

For the man who has it all.

Photos taken at Art Car Fest 07 In San Francisco by addadada

This amazing volvo stationwagon art car comes from Sebastopol CA, created by artist Art Moura, who mainly paints sculptured recycled materials such as drift wood, plastic dolls and other found objects. So far he has produced a large body of art that can be seen on his My Tribe account. Below are some of his thoughts about his car:

I stated painting my car New Years Eve 2006. My friend, Patrick Amiot came over that morning with paint and told me it was time for me to paint my car. So I painted into the New Year. I later added painted dolls heads that I had about and slowly added other art pieces that I make. Its been a great way to have people see my art without going through the gallery and coffee house channels. I have a few names for it, Kali Eating Evil, The Birth of Venise Over and Over and Fog Vodooism which is the type of Art I create, a false vodooism, cast away consumer fetishes made into powerless gods of the voodoo fog from a mind lacking science but believing in nothing else. Art Moura

Mmmm, donuts...Art Car, Covered, Keyboard Keys, Homer Simpson, Doh! its late and I am tired off bloging. Goodnight

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This 2003 Dodge Neon SXT covered in 1500 Pokémon cards was posted on eBay for sale by a college student and his friend who spent 25 hours covering the car. I think he should have waited for the car to become a classic before selling it, it could happen. Below is the listing info from the auction:

• Never smoked in

• No current mechanical problems - drives great

• It is a manual with a short stick installed - for smoother shifts

• There are a lot of miles on it - but they are mostly highway (I went to University of Texas at Arlington and I lived in Plano. For those of you who don't know, that's about a 40 mile drive.)

• I'm the second owner of this car and in my opinion, it's a GREAT first car. It gets 27/30+ MPG and is truly unique.

• The only problem with the car is the seats. There are some stains that would be removed if the buyer meets the reserve

• The car is worth at least $5,000 and like I said, I really am a poor college kid...

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This old Moskvich-407 car was seen in an interior design store in Russia all decked out in furniture, silks and painted in gold. It was for sale for $13,000 but what I want to know is how long it will take for them to deliver it to my house?

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Rubber glove car is brought to you by some dude in Seol Korea. He is eather a doctor working for a big rubber glove corporation or a very disturbed patient. I will stop know.

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Car in Bloom was created in the UK by celebrity florist Paula Pryke, a car completely covered in real flowers.

This Sunday Cartoon art car was photographed by Nate Orgain
in Tuscan Italy. The nice thing about this car is that you can enjoy the comic section seven days a week and you always know where to find it.

Photos from ArtCars On Ice! 2007

Aero Car 2 by Dave Major


Cork Truck By Jan Elftmann

Art Cars on Ice 08 has officially started and will run January 19-Feb-16th. You can go over and visit Art Shantys with an Art Car Taxi service available to take you out to the ice Saturday and Sunday from 10am - Sunset. The Art Cars on Ice Parade will be on Saturday February 9th at 1pm. and the event is held in Minneapolis every year. From someone who has no clue about driving out on the ice this event to me is crazy, but it looks like a loot of fun if you don't mind the cold weather.

Photo by Paul McRae

Photo by Kay and Kevin Rolfes
I finally tracked down this amazing art car I saw a while back on some TV show about weird and strange cars. The "Finnjet", created by Antti Rahko is a 22-foot-long, 7,500-pound compilation of chrome made from 40 different cars, based on two Mercedes-Benz station wagons welded together. There are also parts from a 1962 Chrysler Imperial thrown in the mix, plus 86 lights and 36 mirrors added over six years. It also has three axles, two of which are steerable, a stove, microwave, freezer, TV, two air conditioning and even a sauna. The banner across the back that says "Thank You Lord For Humor". Rahko who resides in Florida uses this car as a limo to pick up to 10 tourist from the airport. Once he was puled over by 10 state troopers and a helicopter with a very big light to ask "What is this?"

I found a web site for the UK’s first Art Car Parade. Here are a few of the art cars from last years parade.


Car Jack Art Car


Tiki Love Truck Art Car


Glowing Goddess Art Car


Black Cab Art Car

In 2004 two Houston Art Car dudes attended the first ever Art Car parade in Audincourt France. These art cars definitely have a french flavor to them, very funny and very unique, enjoy!

Graffiti Car in Prague, Czech Republic - photo by schwiiz.org


Photo and Art by Jeral Tidwell.

The post-it art car is a recent phenomena that was invented as an answer to being board out of your skull at a dead end job that you hate. I consider this a passive aggressive art form that allows a group or individual to let it all out, without the harsh consequences of a more aggressive form of vandalism. Its also a benign and cheap form of psychotherapy. Thank you MR. 3M, I can know fire my therapist:)Also a big thanks to those of you on Flickr who took these wonderfull pictures.


by Jamie Ingilby


by sahmof10


by danzden


by nmbrites


by doraemon

This Maserati Quattroporte was created by Italian artist Luca Pancrazzi, a car covered with 1,763 lbs. of shattered glass. Wow!!! there are definitely a few things I don't want do with this car: 1)Fall on it 2)Collide with it 3)Come near it. But its beautiful in a weird kind of way. Its a car that could maybe belong to Superman or someones "ex wife". Link came from Auto Blog

This VW Golf painted as antique wallpaper was formerlly owned by Andréa Davis the famous "Happy Artist". This car was aslo featured in Top Gear, nice work!

This '90 Toyota Tercel belongs to a retiring wallpaper hanger named Pam the "Paper Hanger", who hangs wallpaper in Colorado Springs. She is retiring from the business and has offered her car up for sale for 2,250 with a mere 201,150 miles on it and a blue book value of $500. There has to be someone out who loves wall paper just as much as Pam does.

This van basically has everything glued to it and maybe a hidden kitchen sink some where underneath all that stuff. It's a 1986 Ford WOW Bus priced at only $130 million dollars, the art car was photographed at the VCCA car show in Franklin Lakes, NJ on May 30, 2004.

Artist and photographer Jonathan Gitelson collected over 1000 flyers and hand sowed them together to create a cover for his car. During the summer of 2004 he moved in across the street from the Funky Buddha Lounge and every morning his car was covered in night club flyers. He came up with the idea for "The Car Project" in which he went around photographing his car covered in flyers in front of the night clubs advertised on the same flyers.

The Iowa caucus marked the beginning of the 2008 Presidential bumper sticker season, so I decided to feature a few Bumper Sticker Art Cars. Its the season to give others a piece of your mind and let them know how you "feeeel" about the issues of the day. There is nothing that says "I have a strong opinion" than covering your car in stickers. Also thanks to those of you who took the time to take the pictures. Let the games begin and may the best candidate win.

Also be sure to check out Bumper Sticker Madness for more stickers based on current news headlines from around the world

Bummer! Is this car still running around?

by Michael


by Cali dreaming


by richardmasoner


by Slackshow_baby13


by grrlie


by Melbytoast


by richard harrod


by judyboo


by Meer

I have come across a type of art car that is under the natural-accidental category, meaning that the car owner had little or nothing to do with the creation of the art itself. It allowed for a more "natural" process to occur, just like the earthquake art car.
These cars I think were created by a group of artist bird colony, inspired by the works of Jackson Pollock. Their canvas of choice is a car parked underneath a nice perch. The medium, well you know, fresh poop. The result might be stunning but not as valued by the car owner, because unlike a Jackson Pollock painting the worth of this "art car" goes down ever after the birds pass away. Whether or not this form of art will take off, only time will tell.

An actual Jackson Pollock Painting