What's wrong with this picture? - NEW HOST! Can you see 'em?

[BKCowGod3]

I had the convenient advantage of actually being able to SEE the pictures...

but y'all are still slow...

[stuartinmn]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]The 'ground' is a Big Damn concrete block about two feet high (for easy access by a fat photog like me) along the river in Manitowoc. Don't know why that would appear out of scale; but any botanist worth a damn would quickly notice that those weeds behind it don't get to be 8 feet tall. I shoulda' whacked the things first. :@ [/QUOTE]

The first thing I noticed is that it looked too perfect to be a real car, but yup those mutant weeds gave it away

That is my favorite Art Car. I want to see someone put some serious wheel flares and windsplits on a 5er and paint it up like that.

Say, whatever happened on your moonroof deal? Rich and/or I were all set to bring it back from 5erFest but were told the shipping had been taken care of.


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[Matt]

If it were a real size car, getting that "aerial" shot would be pretty tricky since in one of the other shots it was clearly parked by a river or something, about where a ladder/building would need to be

[C.R. Krieger]

[QUOTE="Matt"]If it were a real size car, getting that "aerial" shot would be pretty tricky since in one of the other shots it was clearly parked by a river or something, about where a ladder/building would need to be [/QUOTE]

Hey, if Klaus Schnitzer could do it for Roundel ... OTOH, see that tower in the background of the first photo?

[John]

Has anyone noticed the air dam is paintd differantly now then how he (AC) first painted it? When I first saw the real car the white stripe that starts on the right grill and heads over to the air dam used to go into the vent hole in the air dam, now it goes under the air dam. The later way, like the model in the pic, is how it was last time I saw the car.

[C.R. Krieger]

[QUOTE="John"]Has anyone noticed the air dam is paintd differantly now then how he (AC) first painted it? When I first saw the real car the white stripe that starts on the right grill and heads over to the air dam used to go into the vent hole in the air dam, now it goes under the air dam. The later way, like the model in the pic, is how it was last time I saw the car. [/QUOTE]

You're very observant and absolutely correct except for one minor detail. Calder didn't actually paint the car; he designed it on a 1/10 scale model(s). It was then painted, based on the design, by technicians. I, too, noticed the two different airdam schemes as I was researching all the photos I could track down. I could have copied either one, but I chose this one because a) there are more photos of it, presumably because it's the one on the car now, and b) it was easier to mask.

As another Art Car point of interest, none of the first three race cars designed by Calder, Frank Stella ('76 LeMans & Dijon CSL turbo), or Roy Lichtenstein ('77 LeMans 320i turbo) was painted by the artist; all were done in this way. The Stella car in particular is interesting because the majority of the design is simply done with tape stripes of varying widths laid on to portray the gridwork. The first of the series to be painted by the artist is the Andy Warhol '79 LeMans M1 - and it's even more outrageous than the photos can show, since he ran his fingers through the thick clearcoat on top of all the paint.

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[QwikXR]

[QUOTE="C.R. Krieger"]The 'ground' is a Big Damn concrete block about two feet high (for easy access by a fat photog like me) along the river in Manitowoc. Don't know why that would appear out of scale; but any botanist worth a damn would quickly notice that those weeds behind it don't get to be 8 feet tall. I shoulda' whacked the things first. :@ [/QUOTE]

The only thing that I stared at, was the rear lighting and filler panel.. It looked odd (for an actual car), and I actually told my wife "those tails look like a model, don't they?" And she said ".. car's pretty."

Aside from that, I was fooled.. the Big Damn block's crack just reminded me of good ol' Texas dry ground in the summer..

Regardless, very very nice job!