This car was owned by a muffler shop owner in Paradise, CA. It was driven in parades for many years.
Muffler Car
Submitted by Bob Ramsdell
January 31st, 2010
slug=='certifikitsch-winners')
{
$is_award=1;
}
if ($cat->slug=='classique-d-camembert-winners')
{
$is_gold_award=1;
}
if ($cat->slug=='love-is-in-the-hair-award-winners')
{
$is_hair=1;
}
}
// true added because this table will now always exist - jealous button
if ($is_award || $is_gold_award || $is_hair || true)
{
$admin_email_pop_coa=$admin_email_pop_cdc=$admin_email_pop_liith="";
if ( current_user_can('level_10') )
{
$now=gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$key=sha1("A".$now."B");
$the_title=single_post_title("", false);
?>
Send Certifikitsch Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name')."";
$admin_email_pop_cdc="
Send Classique d' Camembert Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name').""; $admin_email_pop_liith="
Send Love Is In The Hair Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name').""; } echo "
Send Classique d' Camembert Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name').""; $admin_email_pop_liith="
Send Love Is In The Hair Confirmation Email to: ".get_the_author_meta('display_name').""; } echo "
";
if ($is_award)
{
echo '';
echo ' .'/library/img/certifikitsch-of-authenkitschity.gif)
'.$admin_email_pop_coa;
}
if ($is_gold_award)
{
echo '';
echo ' .'/library/img/classique-d-camembert-post.gif)
'.$admin_email_pop_cdc;
}
if ($is_hair)
{
echo '';
echo ' .'/library/img/icon-love-is-in-the-hair-sm.png)
'.$admin_email_pop_liith;
}
/*
if (empty($uid))
{
$str="Click if you\\'re Jealous!
(You must be logged in to be Jealous.)"; } elseif ($user_is_jealous) { $str="You are Jealous of this Kitsch!"; } else { $str="Click if you\\'re Jealous!"; } if (empty($uid)) { echo ' .'/library/img/jealous-button-med.png)
';
}
elseif ($user_is_jealous)
{
echo '';
}
else
{
echo '';
}
if (count($jealous_rs)>0)
{
echo "(".count($jealous_rs).")";
}
*/
echo "
\n\n";
}
?>
'.$admin_email_pop_coa;
}
if ($is_gold_award)
{
echo '';
echo ''.$admin_email_pop_cdc;
}
if ($is_hair)
{
echo '';
echo ''.$admin_email_pop_liith;
}
/*
if (empty($uid))
{
$str="Click if you\\'re Jealous! (You must be logged in to be Jealous.)"; } elseif ($user_is_jealous) { $str="You are Jealous of this Kitsch!"; } else { $str="Click if you\\'re Jealous!"; } if (empty($uid)) { echo '
';
}
elseif ($user_is_jealous)
{
echo '';
}
else
{
echo '';
}
if (count($jealous_rs)>0)
{
echo "(".count($jealous_rs).")";
}
*/
echo "
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Allee Willis
What I love most about this Muffler Car is that rather then customizing the vehicle by placing objects on top the creator built one entirely new object . Kitsch cars is one of my favorite categories of Kitsch. I love them whether they’re covered with Astroturf, doorknobs, religious memorabilia or whatever the idiosyncratic brain of the creator led them to create.
I customized several cars myself for rock videos, The Car’s “You Are The Girl”, where I turned a golf cart into a rocket ship, and the-oft-nominated-but-never-quite-award-winning Breakfast Club’s “Right On Track”, where I mutated a beat up Dodge into a ginormous finned, bowling ball and trophy covered ride. (Both are viewable at https://www.alleewillis.com/art/sets-props/index.htm, top row leftmost links.) But I love the simplicity of this muffler car, especially how wide its cheeks get compared to the windshield and how happy its smile is.
If you ever stumble across a side view of this car I’d kill to see it. I wish it were in my driveway right now.
Mark Milligan
I love this. I always wonder what they started with, and try to find hints in the design of what might not have been changed, but in this case the windshield doesn’t give a clue either because it looks like it was bolted on! Very cool!