How one artist’s big PR dream left 36 Corvettes in the dust in a Brooklyn basement.

[mechmike0034]

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/images/news/05/05/intel/cars050502_400.jpg

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11902/index.html
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=409831

A lowdown, dirty shame...

[MrGreg]

From the pictures in the second link, there is at least one '67 in there. That's the one I want.

[RIVERWIDOW]

This is enough to make my husband cry in his sleep. Where is the ba*tard who abandoned all his children? :angry:

[MrGreg]

I don't mind that they've been sitting there all this time. I just don't want to him screw them up for some grand art project. They need to be restored and worshiped.

[speedracer120]

What a shame indeed.

[bachviet]

What a waste! :disa:

[Jeffbx]

I don't think it's a waste... look at all of those cars, untouched for years & years! Let them sit - they aren't going anywhere. Kind of a shame they weren't covered, but not a huge deal.

Now if the building burned down or Peter Max actually painted them, then yeah, that would be a waste of some really nice cars. But as they are, they're pretty safe.

[Merlin]

I don't think it's a waste... look at all of those cars, untouched for years & years! Let them sit - they aren't going anywhere.
I disagree. Letting them rust away is not better then if they were cared for.

[mechmike0034]

Now if the building burned down or Peter Max actually painted them, then yeah, that would be a waste of some really nice cars. But as they are, they're pretty safe.

Most of them are painted - look at some of the pictures in the second link. :eek3:
Example:
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/photopost/data/699/5040Dsc00490-med.jpg

[Houdini]

Most of them are painted - look at some of the pictures in the second link. :eek3:
Example:
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/photopost/data/699/5040Dsc00490-med.jpg

Horrible. :eek3: :disa:

H <---has always wanted a vette

[mechmike0034]

Mea Culpa - According to "Ponch" (the guy who took the digitalcorvettes.com pics):
"That is painted paper taped to the side of each car. Apparently it is a "swatch" of how the car is to look once the paint work is completed."

I thought the bodies themselves had actually been painted...

[rasetsu]

Leave it to some eccentric hippie artist to dis all these beautiful cars. What a douchebag! Corvettes aren't pieces of canvas you jerk off!

[mechmike0034]

Leave it to some eccentric hippie artist to dis all these beautiful cars. What a douchebag! Corvettes aren't pieces of canvas you jerk off!

Dude - don't hold back or sugarcoat your opinion - tell us how you really feel about this! :winkie: :duh:

I'm with you - and thanks in advance for letting me have a little fun with your response. I don't even have anything against "eccentric hippie artist" types, provided they're CAR GUYS!

[Showtime]

Leave it to some eccentric hippie artist to dis all these beautiful cars. What a douchebag! Corvettes aren't pieces of canvas you jerk off!

:stupid:

The car is the work of art. It's like adding varnish to antique furniture... so wrong on so many levels. I don't think he will follow through on his threat. Those early vettes are atucally going up in value every year.

-j

[Jeffbx]

I disagree. Letting them rust away is not better then if they were cared for.


No, don't think of it that way...

They're 'appreciating'. There you go. I think that for the moment, they're better off as a complete collection that no one is touching.

[mechmike0034]

Imagine the rat's nests in some of them by now. Plus, rats and mice love wiring and vacuum hose...