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HellCreek
10-24-2009, 02:49 PM
Art for art's sake ???

I just saw this thread on the Comanche Club forum. CAUTION: This clip will most assuredly be disturbing to all lovers of full size Jeeps !!! :eek: Do not let your children see this !!! :banghead:

My post is near the end.

http://www.comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19173
Toyotech
10-24-2009, 03:52 PM
Try that with a Prius and see how many us the same fruitcake hippie types start protesting!
duncanstives
10-24-2009, 04:00 PM
This has been covered already... I already left him a couple of nastygrams on YouTube.
710 Burner
10-24-2009, 04:33 PM
There's no such thing as bad press, Duncan. They wanted attention, they got it.
Mikel
10-24-2009, 04:39 PM
Destroying is easy. I'd like to see those hippies build something that actually does something useful.
ClovisMan
10-24-2009, 05:41 PM
I still think thats better than what happened to the cash4clunkers Wagoneers.
ThisGuyUKnow
10-25-2009, 02:53 AM
I can't open you tube is this the one that was turned into a deathstar?
duncanstives
10-25-2009, 08:43 AM
There's no such thing as bad press, Duncan. They wanted attention, they got it.

Actually there is... Just look at Wal-Mart. Also its their truck: They will do with it what they want... I am just letting them know I think its dumb idea that is both wastful and fully without artistic merit.
Gambler68
10-25-2009, 08:49 AM
yeah..sure it was way quicker to sawzall the door hinges off then undo 3 or 4 bolts. I actually like the DeathStar Wag, but they could have used a clapped out junker instead of the nice one they started with.
710 Burner
10-25-2009, 10:30 AM
Actually there is... Just look at Wal-Mart. Also its their truck: They will do with it what they want... I am just letting them know I think its dumb idea that is both wastful and fully without artistic merit.
I'm not sure about your reference to WalMart. Bad press has not stopped them from making billions more than me, some of it obviously mine.
Locked and Loaded
10-25-2009, 10:39 AM
What's the difference in what the "artist" did and what some of us do to our rigs?
YellowJeep
10-25-2009, 10:40 AM
So there are people who are upset about this happening? I'm confused. Not like this was a rare model or anything. There are plenty of nice FSJ examples left in this country and they are repeatedly passed over by FSJ cheapskates because they cost %30 more than a clapped out rustbucket.

If you are upset by this, go buy the nice ones and don't sell them for next to nothing!
Tad
10-25-2009, 03:24 PM
What's the difference in what the "artist" did and what some of us do to our rigs?
Not much Jeff.
I'm no artist, nor an art fan for the most part, but I'd stick it in my back yard, drink beer and look at it (looks better than some of the crap sitting out back right now anyway).
Geeeep
10-25-2009, 03:47 PM
Creation of a sculpture by artist Keny Marshall from the disassembled parts of a 1983 Jeep Grand Wagoneer for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

Don't be surprised if the kids in Pittsburgh start craving GW's as their first cars. Maybe it will work on an elemental level....
Locked and Loaded
10-25-2009, 05:17 PM
Not much Jeff.
I'm no artist, nor an art fan for the most part, but I'd stick it in my back yard, drink beer and look at it (looks better than some of the crap sitting out back right now anyway).

Tad,
If it were in your backyard after you had a few beers, your waggy would be sittin on top of it.:D
Toyotech
10-25-2009, 05:19 PM
[QUOTE=Locked and Loaded]What's the difference in what the "artist" did and what some of us do to our rigs?[/QUO


Functionality. Most of the rigs that are cut apart here have a master plan in store for them, although I'm sure many of them spend a fair amount of time as lawn art. I know mine has.
Locked and Loaded
10-25-2009, 07:39 PM
I think his master plan was better fuel economy. So he tried to make a Buell Blast out if it.



http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/07/crushed-blast-large_1.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/2010-buell-blast-ottomon#3)
chr1s
10-25-2009, 07:45 PM
So there are people who are upset about this happening? I'm confused. Not like this was a rare model or anything. There are plenty of nice FSJ examples left in this country and they are repeatedly passed over by FSJ cheapskates because they cost %30 more than a clapped out rustbucket.

If you are upset by this, go buy the nice ones and don't sell them for next to nothing!
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