# Art from Car Parts?!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356 "2009-01-22T20:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![acarts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@acarts](https://community.cartalk.com/u/acarts)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/1 "2009-01-22T20:15:24Z")

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I’m sitting in the next room from a gallery exhibit here in Arlington, MA of sculptures made from car parts - springs & gaskets, tires & transmissions transformed into quite cool works of art, by Maine sculptor Jeff Mann. Do you know any other artists who have taken car parts from the garage to the gallery?  
  
  
  
 [http://www.acarts.org/exhibits.php](http://www.acarts.org/exhibits.php)

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/2 "2009-01-22T20:41:30Z")

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This isn’t that unique. A Google should turn up a list of artists that do this.

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**Author:** ![steve63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@steve63](https://community.cartalk.com/u/steve63)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/3 "2009-01-22T20:50:25Z")

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In the early 1970’s I saw a VW turned into a stegosaurus on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum. It was called Stegowagonvolksasaurus as I recall and was pretty cool to see. The artists who created it were at the museum as well. It was a traveling display and I heard that a few years later it was badly damaged.

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/4 "2009-01-23T01:06:51Z")

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> **[Art car](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Car)**
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> An art car is a vehicle that has had its appearance modified as an act of personal artistic expression. Art cars are often driven and owned by their creators, who are sometimes referred to as "Cartists"\[citation needed\]. Most car artists are ordinary people with no artistic training. Artists are largely self-taught and self funded, though some mainstream trained artists have also worked in the art car medium. Most others\[who?\] agree that creating and driving an art car daily is its own reward. Ar...

The above link shows several art cars. This has been going on for decades. If you count the painted VWs in the 60s, it’s almost 50 years old.

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**Author:** ![steve63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@steve63](https://community.cartalk.com/u/steve63)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/5 "2009-01-29T20:24:21Z")

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Here’s a picture of it [http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/print-article-17015-print.html](http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/print-article-17015-print.html)

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**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/art-from-car-parts/25356/6 "2009-02-16T04:16:53Z")

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There is a guy in central Illinois that paints scenery on fenders, etc. Good looking as long as long it is not in my den.