A Face-Lift

The IUSARTCAR has been on some adventures in the last few weeks.  After the Kentucky Art Car Weekend, that attracted many visitors/comments, we were on Ebay looking for  buyer. Sadly, no one bid the minimum, which was cheap, cheap, cheap!  So, in order to make the van more functional and aerodynamic, an OCTOPUSECTOMY was performed.  Here are a few shots of the results.

If there are any potential Artcar Enthusiasts out there wanting to own a hot-van with a new transmission and tires and lots of great creative details, give us a holler. 

Kentucky Art Car Weekend

The beginning of the parade down Main Street headed for the Mid City Mall and the start of the official Kentucky Art Car Weekend Parade.

Everyone along the route seemed to have a camera in their hands.

The IUSARTCAR got a nice round of applause as it entered the Douglas Loop and was announced over the public address speakers.

Here we were parked along Main Street during the weekend event.  We had lots of visitors asking about the project, the campus, and the program.

This is a shot going down Bardstown Road to the resting place at the presbyterian Church.

The weekend was intense...long...hot..., but loaded with lots of interesting folks and lots of fun art car festivities. Brent and Ben came down and sold their work, Ashley came along, Amdana was there part of the day and participated in the parade, Laurel also came down for the parade even though she is a new grandmother and brought Drew along. He seemed to enjoy it a lot. The IUSARTCAR was a star for the two day event.

FOX in the Morning

This is a detail of the 'bronzevan' that was also on the FOX 41 morning show.

The 'Bronzevan' took 22 years to get to this state and it's amazing to see.

A FOX 41 cameraman shoots the IUSARTCAR.

This morning we went to FOX 41 studios for a quick on-air interview and camera footage of the IUSARTCAR.  All reports say we looked and sounded good.  There was another art car there, just arrived from Washington, the 'Bronzevan'.  It was an amazing vehicle, 10,000 pounds of bronze, including $15,000 worth of coins attached to it.  I've included a few images.