4 Beautiful Mini Art Cars Need Your Vote

Four local Artist in Houston Texas took part in this weeks Mini Art Car Project painted four 2010 Mini Cooper models, transforming them into four very amazing and beautiful Art Cars. You can vote on your favorite one right now and the winning entry will be featured in front of Stella Sola at 1001 Studewood Houston, TX.

Animated Robots Mini Art Car by Robynn Sanders

This mini art car is an exploration of the idea of robots as toys, and is its painted with robots zipping along an assembly line working and goofing off.

Peter Max Mini Art Car by Rebecca Bass

This convertible mini art car is a homage to groovy psychedelic pop hippie hero, artist Peter Max.

Oil Spill Mini Art Car by Michelle Reyna

This mini art car got hit with many oil spill monsters on the prowl for their next victim, created Michelle Reyna and various community artists

Ivory Leaves Mini Art Car by Kim Granneman

Ivory Leaves grace the exterior of this mini art car in a classy and whimsical style with a few blind spots.

Photos By Katy Andesron

The Super Duper Trooper Raygun by Robynn Sanders - RIP

The Super Duper Trooper Raygun in all its former glory.

I am sorry to announce the passing of The Super Duper Trooper Raygun a Toyota SUV created by Robynn Sanders who recently finished a painting a MINI Couper called Animated Robots. It seems that the Raygun had a close encounter of the wrong kind and is now headed to the "Yard" on its last and final mission.

Here is what Robynn had to say about her art car.

"The Super Duper Trooper Raygun is
Highly Mobile, Interplanetary, Multi-Functional, Search & Destroy, Deatomizing Super Duper Trooper Raygun


Designed to protect earthlings from evil invaders. Equipped with Electro-fizzilating Cosmic Clouding Bubbles that cleanse the world of dirty doing, also Dual-action bastardy deed Destroying Darts, High Intensity Multi-wavelength Cosmic Rays that de-atomize evil invaders and last but not least Hypersensitive Sound Blasters."

It was a cosmic and complex car, with many life saving properties and it will be missed.

Painted Cuban Plane by Xavier Cortada

This beautiful painted bi-plane was created by artist Xavier Cortada in 2005.

The Cuban Monument to Freedom, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve, promote and present the Painted Cuban Plane and Freedom Luggage Installation created by Miami artist Xavier Cortada. The organization was created to ensure that the experiences of individual Cuban exiles do not fade from memory.

Xavier Cortada was born in Albany, New York and was raised and lives in Miami. The Cuban-American artist holds three degrees from the University of Miami. His work has been shown across four continents and is in the permanent collection of The World Bank. Cortada has been commissioned to create art for government agencies (the White House, Miami City Hall), cultural institutions (Miami Art Museum, Museum of Florida History) and corporations (Nike, Heineken). Major collaborative art projects include International AIDS murals in Switzerland and South Africa, peace murals in Northern Ireland and Cyprus and child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama.

Ugly Corvettes or Art Cars in Disguise?

Ugly Corvettes or Art Cars in Disguise that is the question I have for you today. Over at Jalopnik
this Dragon Corvette is considered ugly but here its an art car in "process". Even though it was voted "single worst custom Corvette in history" it will find save haven here with the rest of us who took perfectly good cars and added "personal" touches. While I was out an about I found a few more corvettes that needed to come out of the rain.

Dragon Corvette - Budget Mod Art Car


Painted Corvette Art Car by Buckeye-Front


Painted Corvette by Buckeye Art Car-Side


Rocket Corvette - Super Mod


Red Bull Corvette-Super Mod


Ribbon Corvette - Super Mod


Penny Corvette Art Car

What do you get when you cross a Unicycle, a Tuba and Burning Man

Photo Via Olson & Farlow
I needed an art unicycle for my collection here on Art Car Central and this is what I found. Some dude named Erin "Red" Thompson who figured that tubas and unicycles where a good much. So he covered himself in silver paint, went to burning man one year and did his thing. Mom would be proud, those tuba lessons paid off.

The Bubble Monster Strikes Again

The Bubble Monster art car was created by Sonny, a 93 Toyota Camry 4 door turned into a 2 door sculpted using spray foam.

It's an interactive art car that makes bubbles that come out from the tail, eyes, nose, teeth  and the main body. It also has a nifty tunnel so
kids can crawl through the car.

Sonny is also working on adding more interactive features to the Bubble Monster and is available for parties and corporate gigs. Nice work Sonny.

World's Smallest Car - Postman Pat by Perry Watkins

Perry Watkins took the frame of the "Postman Pat" children's ride in the UK and mounted it on a quad mini-bike, using its 150cc engine. The car has a windshield wiper, lights and signals, mirrors, fire paint job, fake racing exhaust pipes and engine blower. It can hit a top speed of 40 MPH, it is now legal to drive on the road and has received confirmation that his creation - only 39in high and 26in wide - is the smallest car ever built. Also world's most expensive chiropractor bill.

Perry in his Postman Pat

Perry on the road again with his Postman Pat

The inner workings of Postman Pat

Rolls Royce Art Car by Pro Hart

Pro Hart (1928-2006) is on of Australia's most famous artist and considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement. His works were shown on a wide variety of products such as air conditioners, beer cans, kitchenware, and telephone cards, and also a very popular carpet commercial on television.

He lived in Broken Hill, in Outback Australia, and owned a number of Rolls Royce and Bentley cars witch he drove all over the outback, and described them as "bloody good cars for the job". He is also famous for his painted 1973 Silver Shadow Rolls Royce art car in 1999.

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Diddie Wah Diddie Art Car

Chevy truck, mostly 1963, purchased in 1975 in Poteau, OK. Primary transportation until 1985 (known then as the Turkey Truck due to stickers on doors). Dead by the side of the road until 2007. Concept & all paint by Dixie Rhyne, resurrection by Billy Banks. Located in NW Arkansas, daily driver. Still in process.

Play Twister While Driving - Joy Art Car

by crazysanman
Finally the mobile version of twister is here with this Joy Art Car. It's true now with this car you can break up those boring long road trips with a very "quick" game of twister, and you don't even have to stop, unless you slip and slide off at 65 mph. The object of the game is to stay on as long as possible.

Psychedelic Bentley Art Car for the Beatlles

by jefg99
This 1956 Bentley SI, was designed by John Lennon and is housed at the Sarasota Classic Car Museum, Sarasota Florida. A crazy paint job for a super crazy expensive art car. I wonder what "Mr" Bentley thinks of this?

Incredible Pakistany Art Cars Hit the Road

I can't believe how amazing and beautiful these art buses are from Pakistan. The amount of time spend creating these wondrous works of art stun me senseless. I also can't imagine the time spend in keeping up with it all and making sure the colors stay vibrant for a long time. These and many more are found on drive line





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Ganesha The Car - Paving the way to better traffic

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Salamandir a "Professional New Age Renaissance Man" took a 96 Mazda Protegé called The Ganesha Art Car and covered with Sanskrit writing. He said this about his art car: "After some research, I decided to put Sri Ganapati Sahasranamavalih on my car for a variety of reasons: Apart from the fact that I am Hindu, and Ganesha is the second most widely worshipped deity in the world (right behind Jesus), I figured it would be good to invoke The Remover of Obstacles when I was on the road, especially since I am recovering from a brain injury which occurred in 2003." I do hope your driving experience has been a good ever since and I do hope your recovery went well, all the best from ACC.

Trashy Barbie Pink Mercedes Art Car - Barely

Can anyone explain Trashy Barbies Pink Mercedes to me. I am simply at a loss for words to wrap my head around this convertible pink budget mod with no doors and two roll bars. Even the word Mercedes is cut off, I don't know what this world is coming to. 
Photo by Claudia, Xlendi, Gozo Island.

Giant Tire Painting with a BMW Art Car

Artist Robin Rhode installed a set of paint squirters on a 2010 BMW Z4 and then set it in motion upon canvas. This giant football field sized piece of art is entitled "An Expression of Joy." and was created after hours of driving the car to and fro in exact patterns to get the paint thickness just so. I think its a great marketing idea by BMW to promote their new car, well done.



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Dotmobile Art Car by Little Shiva -

This minimalist BMW named the "Dotmobile" art was sent in by Little Shiva. Her web site has a wide range of some pretty amazing works of art mainly using trash and other found objects, check it out. Anyways this is what she had to say about her self.

When she's not fingerpainting on Mars or curating Visible Trash, Little Shiva is probably dreaming of The Dotmobile, plotting and scheming on how to get her shipped to Europe as part of traveling trash art expo in 2010. Stranded in Charlotte NC without a car back in the early 00's, Little Shiva put out a call and a kind soul answered. Dave Neff had driven his prized Beemer into a ditch and crunched her up a bit. Too embarrassed to sell her given the twisted shape she was in, he was about to give her to the scrapyard when fate intervened – Little Shiva got her for a dollar. A year or so later after returning from her first trip to Burning Man, Little Shiva decided to start the transformation . . . and Dot was born. Moving to Belgium in 2007 meant leaving Dot behind: she's currently the art car-in-residence at the Juggling Gypsy in Wilmington, NC.

Dotmobile Art Car


Dotmobile in process by Little Shiva


Dotmobile video, sound: Le Forbici di Manitu

Funky Mercedes Hearse Art Car - What a way to go.

You just died and you spent your last 1,000 bucks on a coffin and all you have for the ride to cemetery is your uncle Bob's hearse. Then here it is, the words Funkiest Mercedes Hearse Art Car.

by rutger.kappes

Fantastic Italian Art Car - Fiat 500

I found this fantastic Italian Art Car created using an old Fiat 500, I think. I don't know anything more about this car other than the paint job is simply incredible in detail, color and design. It uses all the patterns all the time but somehow it works out. Nice Job.


by Pasc_Lem

Dino Ride Art Car aka Psychedelic Relic

I got this Dino Ride Art Car sent in by Carl Lasagna today and here is what he had to say about it:

Beautiful friendships and a whimsical, hemp inspired imagination inspired the transformation of a salvaged 61 Ford Galaxie into the DinoRide (aka the Psychedelic Relic) in 1993...Created by Carl Lasagna, this "Senseless Act of Beauty" radiates such good Car Kharma it turns frowns upside down wherever it goes. After 100,000 miles of touring California and Oregon, the response has proven that Peace, Love, Justice, and Environmental issues (Especially when mixed with a little psychedelia) NEVER go out of style. WAR IS UNHEALTHY TO BABIES, PUPPY DOGS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS...is painted on the trunk

I have owned the car for 21 years now...and it still runs and graces the Bay Bridge quite regularly :)

Spotted Art Car parked in front of Spotted Art House

Here is the Spotted Art Car in front of the Spotted Art House. By the way these were done by two different people in England, what an amazing coincidence.

by imothepixie