Mobile Art

When it comes to decorating their cars, Americans are in overdrive.

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The auto -- for Americans -- is as powerful a symbol of freedom as the bald eagle. Take your Ford on the open road and the country is yours. But a small and growing group asks, "Why drive the same car everyone else drives? Why not drive my own creation?" These are owners of art cars, men and women who redesign ordinary cars and make them extraordinary. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes outrageous, they are always original and express an individual's ideals, quirks and dreams.





Researched by Dan O'Connor

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My wife, Anita, worked at the Navy exchange dry cleaners while I was stationed at the submarine base in Groton, Conn. One evening a familiar-looking man in civilian clothes came to pick up his dry cleaning. Anita was sure he was on my crew and that she had met him at the "Welcome Aboard" family briefing a few weeks earlier. As she handed him his change, she said, "Excuse me, but aren't you on my husband's boat?"

"No, ma'am," my commanding officer replied, "I believe your husband is on my boat."

-- Michael Goriup