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This time Olaf Mooij brings us the complete set of cars with wigs and hairy arm pits, this one looks like a sumo wrestler.

Here is another Olaf Mooij creation, this time a multiple car sculpture in the middle of a round about, again have no idea what they are saying but funny none the less.



Olaf Mooij studied at the Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam (Academy of Arts of the City of Rotterdam) between 1977 and 1983. He has been working as an independent artist since his graduation. Today, his workshop is located in Rotterdam’s harbour where he produces work that focuses on changing existing objects into new dimensions.

In 1999, Mooij transformed a car into an art object for the first time. In the “DJ Mobile”, he magically transformed a Ford Sierra into a mobile station where a DJ can perform his records. This piece was nominated for the Rotterdam Design Prize (the most prestigious design award in the Netherlands). The DJ mobile has also appeared in numerous art festivals in the Netherlands. Expanding from this concept, Mooij has developed “hair-cars” series since 1999.
“Every type of car has it’s own personality, it’s own face, lots of people see the lamps as the eyes, the grille as it’s mouth. A car represents certain time spirit and represents a certain group of people. A car is alive! My father always said after a long drive with his car “well done boy” and gave it a friendly punch. This is where the idea of the HAIRCARS found its roots. Imagine there is a car driving in the street with beautiful long blond hair waiving in the wind.”

- Olaf Mooij, ARCO Catalogue, Artfair Madrid Spain, February 2002

More info about Olaf Mooij at www.olafmooij.com.

On the previous post I found some dude with the Mobile DJ Art Car, well the dudes name is Olaf Mooij from the Netherlands and he is an amazing art cartist. This particular art car is a plastic brain mounted on the back of a car with movies projected from the inside. I have no idea what i says what its really funny.

Of all the cars I have heard or rather felt this Mobile DJ Art car is by far the most original, clever and cool looking ever. It actually reminds of the car from Men In Black. It has two turn tables with a number of very large speakers built into the car with aerodynamic considerations in mind. I think the dude is Dutch so I am not quite sure what it says on his web site, but here is an English excerpt from his site "The idea for the DJ Mobile is inspired by the song "God is a DJ" [from faithless] and the car of our HOLY-POPE. These two things were mixed together and there it was the DJ Mobile. The DJ Mobile is a functional artwork with a PA System built in"

This Chalk Board Art car or "Mobile Expression" is a 91 Geo Metro covered in 2 cans of blackboard spray paint created to inspire anyone walking by to a spontaneous drawing expression. Mikey Fletcher is from Roeland Park, Kansas and has inspired many to participate by drawing on his car with chaulk. One day he went in to get some dinner and half an hour later over a hundred people had completely covered his car. That is is wonderful project and you definitely and ambassador of good times.

Most of us who work and have art cars usually can't do both, but why would we want to? Britton Edd China was able to merge his three passions, work art and speed into this really fast work office art car that he drove across Westminister Bridge into the city of London on Nov 9 2006 as part of Guiness World Record Day. The Office is roadworthy desk that can travel up to 87 mph but the question is can he get good Internet connection and can he surf and drive at the same time?

Have always wanted an art car but were to lazy or too busy to make your own? Now is your chance to own a beautiful 1995 Ford Escort, Ex.cond. with a only 132,300 miles in the SF bay Area now on sale on ebay Its covered in buttons, beads, cabochons, an ear ring collection from the 60s, A Levi Jacket and miscellaneous trinkets and rejected art projects.

Extremo the Clown is Scot Campbell, a graphic artist who once ran for Mayor of Portland. He is also the creator of Mirabilis Statuarius Vehiculum which is latin for extraordinary sculpted vehicle that took about seven years to make and has 318 thousand miles on it. It's adorned with three hundred heads and the big one on the back is a fountain. He says he was the inspiration for the carthedral art car and now I can see why, its an amazing car with amazing detail. Scott is currently working on another car which we hope to feature on Art Car Central as soon as its done.





Photos sent in by Extremo

I got this wooden VW art suggestion from Kelly Lyles the other day so I had to post this. I got carried away and spent a couple of hours looking for more of these wooden wonders. I am sure there are benefits to owning a wooden art car so here we go, my top seventeen reasons to drive a wooden art car.

1) Babe Magnet

2) Great View


3) It floats


4) It floats and its faster

Livio De Marchi from Venice, Italy created these three and two of them float, I wonder why?

5) Giant Door Wedge

Splinter

6) Smaller Door Wedge

Little Splinter
created artist Isaac Cohen who is a regular at the Houston Art Car Parade.

7) Classy Dinner Table

The car is built from scratch from Friend Wood entitled the Tryane II, took almost 2000 hours to create. It weighs in at about 900 pounds & is capable of 100mph. This is much better than any log ride out there! I love it.It took furniture maker Friend Wood, 46 over 2 000 hours to build his three-wheel, tear-drop shaped car. Named 'Tryane II', it was built around a basic mould using a boat-building technique known as 'cold moulding'. Mr Wood (yes, that's his name) then built up layers of African mahogany. The two-seater is an adaption of the classic four-wheeled 1969 Citroen Diane and uses the chassis and 602cc engine from a Citroen 2CV. It weights 900 lbs, is 13 feet 7 inches long, 5 feet four inches wide, and four feet four inches tall. With a top speed of approximately l00 mph, it has a fuel consumption of up to 70 mpg.


8) Zamboni on wheels

This wood car was created as a promotional vehicle made by a furniture company in Japan with a max speed of 80km/h.

9) Better Snow Traction

This Opel car which has been stripped of all the metal on the chassis and been replaced with wooden planks.

10) Stealth WWI Machine


11) Urban Safari Trips


12) Get Away Car


13) Better parallel parking?


14) Makes the rims look really nice


15) Wild Life Preserve


16) Pick up time machine?


17) If life gives you wood, make an underpowered wooden death trap