“Dear PoPville,
Have been dying to find out the story behind this car that is typically around Kalorama Park and Streets Market- it’s wild!”
The explanation we’ve previously posted from césar maxit:
“What is it? People have questions, here’s my final answer it’s just art, it’s a cloud, it’s not very heavy, mostly air with a thin wire shell.
I was happy living without a car #bikelife, but then I was hired by a coalition of environmental and consumer rights organizations to conceive of and build a sculpture on a car that would deliver signed petitions to Ford headquarters in Detroit. We were calling on Ford to stop working with Trump on rolling back clean fuel standards set by Obama. I worked hard and fast with friends to make the prop in 1 week. It was a black smoke/smog cloud coming out of a 2nd tailpipe. It even had a remote controlled smoke machine in the trunk coming out of a 3rd tailpipe for extra effect on the trip. See pic 10.. Eventually the car came back to DC and became a family car, and I had to cut off the tail so I could parallel park in the city (and so people would stop calling it a rat, lol) Later I painted it white, because who wants to live with a dark cloud always hanging over their head? (people started calling it an igloo, lol) Last week I fixed up the cloud with some friends after an unfortunate drive-thru accident and decided a new paint job was needed. I decided a sunset theme would go well with the cloud and it was a good choice cause my daughter loves it”