Posted on 11/02/2020 2:34:50 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
You’re driving down the road. Suddenly, a Toyota RAV4 pulls up beside you. Sprayed on its focus group-derived curves is a chihuahua, posing gracefully before a waterfall.
...You turn the corner and soon come across a full-size Dodge Ram pickup, parked at an angle. On its driver’s-side door, you see a mural of Chuck Norris leaning on a saddle. And that saddle is saddled on the bed of a different pickup truck.
So I welcome you inside Russia’s airbrushed car scene. No, this is nothing like plasti-dip. And, no, the paint isn’t removable.
“Aerography is not cheap, to say the least,” Marina said. “Last fall we did an entire Dodge Ram, covering all the panels except for the roof, and it cost the customer nearly 300,000 rubles (about $4,000).”
It turns out that the primary reason Russians airbrush their cars is for theft-prevention. “Airbrushed cars are instantly recognizable to bystanders and security cameras.”
“One time, this lady came whose car was attempted stolen two or three times. And she was sick of [worrying about her car getting stolen]. So she said: ‘I want mushrooms on my car.’
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
NICE!
That’s very good work. I’ll bet such a car owner becomes extremely protective of his car once the artwork is done.
‘Stay away from my car! Don’t park so close to me!”
At least now they have nice cars they have to protect from thieves.
They used to never wash their crappy Russian cars because they wanted the traffic cops to think they weren’t rich...so they wouldn’t pull them over for the instant fines that Russian cops are allowed to assess.
Russians have been at war with their overseers like forever.
Russians are more American than many Americans, these days...
America went through this phase in the ‘70s. Anyone remember the ornate airbrush work on the side of custom vans? Some of it was quite good.
Awesome!
Means that we now have an “airbrush gap” with the Russians...
OTOH, at least we are leading them in the “BLM-Antifa” race...
” Anyone remember the ornate airbrush work on the side of custom vans?”
A very good point.
Yeah, the van era was cool. My friend had one we had some good times in.
I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other automotive art space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow... a “airbrush gap” gap!”
And why is it the commie loving BLM/antifa NEVER migrate to Russia?
(parasites cannot survive without a host)
The polar bear is another of my favorites.
My grandkids would love it!
When I saw “Russia’s Airbrushed Car” I thought that it was a car that made Stalin angry so it w as removed from the history books leaving a suspicious empty parking space.
“I thought that it was a car that made Stalin angry so it w as removed from the history books leaving a suspicious empty parking space.”
Must have been one of Lenin’s many Rolls Royces?
I wonder how AI self-driving cars handle that?
“I wonder how AI self-driving cars handle that?”
The other day there was an unusual problem with the AI programmed camera fixing on the bald referee and NOT the soccer ball?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3900270/posts
That said, you won’t know if you don’t try using the technology.
My husband did them! We were just looking at some photos the other day. I shard this article with him.
Ugh
shared
Hate when I hit post and see the error too late!
And it was all done by hand - no Photoshop.
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