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Drivable Art

An art car is a vehicle that has its appearance modified as an act of artistic expression. Art car beginnings are usually older and or used vehicles where the car owner decides they want to alter the

car for their personal gratification. Some cars are not restricted to just altering the body but also what is under the hood…or as in this picture, altering what is inside the mouth of the shark.

Customizing cars has turned into a major commercial industry. Car chassis today have caught up with the imagination of car and fantasy enthusiasts. Old cars that have been saved, and well maintained or restored, become "Classic" or "Vintage" cars. Others are simply cars too ugly to be anything else but an art car, turning something fugly into something beautiful.

Cars offer a huge surface for poster-like images, child like delights, drivable fantasies and yesterday revivals. Cars, trucks and RVs have become oversize moving billboards for visual artist and automobile mechanics / artists.

Serious collectors, visual artist and automobile mechanics spend thousands of dollars in restoring and decorating the cars. Often you will find that owners have painstakingly gone over every component, inside and out, are polished to perfection.

One of the costly details is painting and customizing vinyl overlays that are applied much as a decal. Designing overlays is a huge business as well that employs top graphic artists and new designs are constantly in demand.

The passion to redesign a car is made up entirely of the imagination, skills and resources of the car owner. Almost no material is too taboo or unusable for decorating art cars. The only limits that exist are the artist’s imagination.