Thanks to Mel for sending a shot of the famed Cloud Car”
“Spotted it Saturday afternoon at Connecticut and Q St. Given everything going on in DC right now, we could all use a little cloud car goodness. But who-or what-is driving?”
The backstory from 2021:
“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. ☁️🚗”
Sweet City Ride is made possible by the Friends of the PoPville Society!