Actually the guy sitting in the background is the one who owned it during its most major "transformation" for its first run in the Uptown art car parade (he's the reason WANDER is on it, he called it the "fossil fuel consuming techno-beast"). He owned it for about 2 years after I did, then sold it back for $100. Larry (the guy in the picture) would drive his 15 y/o daughter to school in it When I got it back I worked on it more and did some more cutting for the second art car parade (I'll have to get those pics uploaded)
Speaking of Art Cars...
There is a "filler" type series that is shown here on the STL PBS station called Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations. It is pretty interesting, and is about the Summer wanderings of three KU profs who chronicle the various folk art installations all over the USA and various "world's largest (fill in the blank)." Actually pretty interesting.
ANYway, they visited an Art Car Parade in a TX city (sorry, do not remember if Austin, Houston, or Dallas. In the parade was a Tercel wagon, painted pretty garishly. I fell out of the chair! Unfortunately, it did not make a reappearance in the show.
This series does repeat itself, but I have never seen this repeat. It's usually on at 3-4AM. I do not think this particular parade is of recent vintage, and have a feeling it is possibly 10 years old.
Has anyone else seen this car?
Tom M.
T4WD augury?
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit." T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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