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From Eric Staller's website: "The LIGHTMOBILE (1985) was the first in the urban UFOs series. A Volkswagen beetle covered with 1659 lamps that are computerized into 20 different patterns of light flowing over the car. I have shared it with hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of New York, Chicago, Boston, Montreal, Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Brussels and Nagoya." (And San Francisco...)
Poor Herbie, its like one of those "after they were famous" things like 'what Herbie did next' ...After Fame and Fortune...
Herbie drove around beeping at people who waved as he passed, eventually this wore thin and he began guzzlin' gas until know one recognized him anymore. In the end, his headlights fell off and his doors wont shut...and now he sits here in a daze dreamin' of the good times and watching the clouds fly by. :(
Thanks Gareth for the description!
=)
This thing is the very definition of "ugly and proud".
I almost gave it up at some point, but the car is just too weird and way beyond original not to be worth a little effort. The thing I probably like most about this mutant is its mean and efficient... "logic".
A friend of mine has this on the back of her VW Bug. It roughly translates to "Forgive me for driving so slowly in front of you."
I think.
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Longtime followers of me and my photography may remember shots I shared many years ago of a row of forlorn Volkswagen Beetles sitting behind a fence on Rosewood Driver in Columbia. That place is out of business and I suspect it has changed owners a few times before this place,Import Auto Repair & Service Specialties, popped up. I don't get over that way very much, so on my first time there, I was very surprised to find some of the old cars that I did find.
Ever seen a sofa in a bug, well here it is. Part of the art instillation at Bombay Beach drive in. Would you watch a movie in this vehicle? Added incandescent and blue light.
Three of Taxco’s famous attractions: The Zocalo, Templo de Santa Prisca and a Volkswagen Bug taxi.
Taxco ("tass-ko") de Alarcón is considered Mexico’s silver Mecca. It is a beautiful Spanish colonial town at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains. Once an abundant silver mining town, it now thrives on its silver craft and tourism. It makes for a popular day trip from Mexico City, as it is located only 100 miles southwest from the capitol.
Taxco is a great walking town; that is if you don’t mind getting a workout from the steep, cobblestone streets. Taxco is perched on a sloping hillside 5,000 feet above sea level and the steep, cobbled, narrow and winding streets makes it a perfect fit for the compact Volkswagen Beetle (Bug). It is the only town in Mexico that still retains this classic car as a primary source of public transportation. With its rear wheel drive (the wheels do not spin on the slick cobblestone streets) and air-cooled engine, it is the perfect car to navigate the steep hills of Taxco.
The taxi driver’s modify these classic cars by removing the front passenger seat. This allows paying passengers to enter and disembark with ease. Also, the space serves as a “trunk” for luggage and shopping items. One handy modification is that they attach a rope to the passenger side door to close it once the passenger enters or exits the vehicle.
You have not experienced Taxco until you have taken a ride in a classic VW Bug taxi!
Happy Travels!
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This abandoned car was found in the marsh near Spring Gardens Rd. in Burlington. The water level was very high and had reached this abanadoned car as normally the car sits in the dry.
I just visited the site in 2017 and this car is no longer there.
13th Annual No Show - Kaysville, Utah.
Camera: Yashica Mat-124 G (1970 - 1986).
Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan (Expired 9/1989).
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Nothing better than a running driving piece of history with just a perfect story told by the aging of the car. Perfect.
So I neglected to mention, when I posted last week's photo of Caitlin, that she was an excellent model.
So good, this lady! Such a model!
So good, in fact, that I had her model again for me last tuesday.
And I'm gonna have her model for me yet again as soon as I can figure out a day and a place.
Because good models? Actually hard to come by.
Some are pretty, but boring. Some interesting, but not the right look. Some are interesting, got a great look, but are wicked flakey.
So when I find a good one (and I've actually found 2 more in the past week), I do my best to shoot them as often as possible, before something changes or goes wrong.
And Caitlin is definitely a good one. Fun, easy to direct, up for anything. Hell, tuesday I had her climb in a beat up VW bug that had been blown up, run over, dropped from on high, pelted with cans of paint...the thing was a wreck.
But she jumped in like it was a jungle gym. Great lady, this one.
And no, it does not hurt at all that she is kinda easy on the eyes. Kinda easy on the eyes like speed is kinda a pick-me-up.
Caitlin & Chelsea, workin' in during our first shoot together, up on the blog: blog.louobedlam.com/post/108149030/look-at-me-acting-all-...
Pal, when sold had over 300,000 miles and always lived outside, much of it near salt water, a car of many wonderful adventures and timely valve adjustments, and a few engine rebuilds too, Pal, a 1968 VW go anywhere Bug
The dark green door was the result of parking in the wrong Port of Tacoma parking lot at the wrong time of day... the after work time of day. Lesson learned, even a stationary car is vulnerable in a tavern parking lot when ironworkers are involved.
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