Wild Wheels

by Harrod Blank

Book Overview

In a unique odyssey, filmmaker Harrod Blank crisscrossed the country in his art car looking for kindred spirits to costar in his film Wild Wheels. And find them he did, eventually shooting over forty... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093362168X
• ISBN13: 9780933621688
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Blank Books
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Extremely Entertaining - To Be Seen To Be Believed!

This is my favorite "coffee table book" of all time. Yeah, it's a smaller than the normal "coffee book," but that's what it is: a book you can pick up, flip to any page, and enjoy a few minutes of reading and visual pleasure....every time! It's simply a book showing what bizarre people across the country have done with their cars: growing grass on them, pasting thousands of artificacts on them; installing a swimming pool in the bed of a truck; having an old VW covered in lights, on and on. The artwork on some of these automobiles is just incredbile. I have the first edition book, printed in 1994, and it has quality hard-glossed paper so the photographs come through perfectly and you get a good look at each strange vehicle and owner. In addition, author Harrod Blank's description of the people, their cars and why they did what they did are all fascinating and mostly very funny. Blank is quite a character, himself. These weird cars reflect their owners and.....well, see for yourself! "Wild Wheels" is a wild book that has been entertaining me for 15 years.

The original art car book

Here is Harrod Blank's first art car, and his camera van, with early Burning Man art cars (pre-"mutant vehicle"). This book ties in with the movie "Wild Wheels" and is essential for tracing the 1980s origin of contemporary art cars.

Wild Fun

It gives me great happiness and hope for the human race to know that there are people like the ones documented in this book.

Tired of being a commuter car clone? This book's for you!

Talk about the power of books! Six years ago, some roadside preacher in a bus covered windshield-to-tail lights in bible verses handed me a book called Wild Wheels. He thought I would enjoy it, seeing as how I was driving a Ford Granada covered in graffiti, and therefore somewhat of a kindred spirit. Well, he was right. Years later, I'm still driving that Granada and mostly thanks to writer/photographer Harrod Blank's campaign to make the American highway a safer place for art. In the stories and bright colorful photos of Wild Wheels, I found the inspiration to turn my graffitied junker into a driving dream, a 2-door art museum on wheels. And though Wild Wheels won't likely have so dramatic an effect on every reader, its universal theme of self-realization through expression will touch every reader's heart. Featuring over 100 color photos and fascinating anecdotal peeks into the lives of the artists who made the cars, Wild Wheels continues to introduce the world to the pioneers of the now popular car art movement. The characters and cars in Wild Wheels are so genuine and so funky and so genuinely funky as captured by Blank that they'll have you wondering "Is it real? Did somebody make all this up? Am I really bolting antlers to my hood?" For answers to these and other wild questions, buy this book!! I loved it, and everyone I show it to wants a copy.