Cars aren’t typically considered art because they are not made by someone with artistic intention?

Cars aren’t typically considered art because someone does not make them with an artistic intention: this statement is incorrect. All cars started out with someone’s artistic intention. Some intentions may be less impressive than others.

Cars are designed for one specific purpose–to get from point A to point B. When you look at a car, it’s hard to tell if it’s meant to be beautiful or ugly, happy or sad, serious or funny. Another crazy conclusion.

Some say an art car is a vehicle that has had its appearance modified as an act of personal artistic expression. Art cars are often driven and owned by their creators, sometimes called "Cartists".

Most car artists are ordinary people with no artistic training. Of course all people are ordinary people.

Auto,Photo, & Memory Art →

Memories Warm You Up From the Inside

Auto Design is an Art Form that reflects public taste and culture →

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Ok, sure, automobiles were created to drive you to a destination. They are the products of an industrialized world that makes a profit out of creating things and more profit out of replacing these machines.

O yes, the design value has aesthetic appeal but some just think it is a tool for the planned need to change as design goes out of style.

The important truth here is that design that comes to us because it was commissioned for functional purposes does not mean that the design isn’t art. Functionality does not disqualfy art.

Cars and art share something that very few other things do. Their design comes largely from the soul of their creators and in then the finished product speaks to our souls.

These creations of hands and intellect become things that are not alive, but yet they serve to remind us that we are.

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The one and only: GTO (gran turismo omologato) →

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Young men in the 1950's and 60's had their taste of the desire to be famous validated by the automobile they drove. The right car sent the right message of fame and the driver was of course famous because of the car.

With the right car you would sit a little taller and feel the buzz of being famous. Were you “Cool”? Do you really have to ask? If you had a GTO you were beyond famous, locally of course.

The GTO (which stood for Gran Turismo Omologato) was a car that sent the right message. In today's world you would say it was the G.O.A.T. - Greatest Of All Time.

I really love my car because of how it makes me feel and how I think it makes others feel →

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The car is beautiful and people just like to look at it. It evokes a deep emotional response just being around it. Some people don’t just love this care but the love many cars, maybe all cars.

Cars are like people and have their own personality. Some are great at some things and terrible at others.

Some cars are loved because of who they attract. Some are loved because of the disconnection from the world they provide. Responsive and fast, just because you ask.

June Auto Show Daybreak 2019 →

Summer is about baseball, hot dogs, vacations, and often car shows. This cool car was shown in the neighborhood show in Daybreak in the Southeast corner of the Greater Salt Lake City area

1955 Chev 2 door Red, Custom Wheels: O to be back in the day with this! →

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Back in the day, it had to be a 2 door. Then it also might have been stripped of the front bumper and the hood ornament. The seats could have been done in a white tuck and rolled Naugahyde (that resembled leather).

It could have had white wall tires or perhaps slicks on the back.

This is much better and still Cherry Cool!