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I should know that the Plaidmobile is indeed a 1985 Buick SkyHawk, since I am TIM McNally and it has been my car for about 16 years. I started painting it plaid in 1995. It had 34,000 miles when I bought it used in '91 for $2,000. It now has over 200,000 miles on it and is on its second engine and transmission (manual 4 speed). It is registered with the NJ State Motor Vehicle Commision as being the color "Plaid".

DAVE Major is the Dave in the article. Dave McNally was a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles '62-'74 (retired with the Monteal Expos in '75). Sometimes there are little mix-ups in communication. It's fine and understandable.

However, from experience, I have noticed that reporters, no how much you make it clear to them, about what the facts are, have their own ideas about what is true. The Buick Skylark is better known I think, so perhaps assumptions are made ("It must be a Skylark, because whoever heard of a SkyHawk").

Likewise, Emily Duffy did not create the MondrianMobile as a tribute to Mondrian. She created it to poke fun at him and her art school professors; to make fun of "the cold unemotional, sterile, high-art, male, intellectual snobbery" she was experiencing at art school. (-Emily Duffy in Harrod Blank's book "Art Cars: the cars artists, the obsession, the craft") She says that it's kind of funny that most people think it's a tribute to Mondrian.

Anyway, mistakes and all, I'm glad so many appear to have enjoyed the art cars article.

Just because "anyone can" glue things to a car, or whatever, doesn't mean it's not an art form - the car being a blank canvas. (Not to be confused with Harrod Blank). Ha... Objects can be carefully chosen and arranged as a sculptural "collage."

And, just because you may not like it, doesn't mean it's then "not art." I've heard some say that "anyone" could throw paint at a canvas like Jackson Pollack (the famous abstract expressionist artist). What I say to a person like this is: Well, you didn't make that painting, and he did! And by gosh, his paintings sell for millions of dollars, are in many big museums, and some people in fact, like them!

I think some people are just too close-minded and critical of things that are different.

Tim McNally
(who "ruined" a perfectly good 1985 Buick SkyHawk, Ha, Ha!)
and who is currently defacing a "classic" 2005 Honda Civic!