David Best Car at its Worst - RIP

This Art Car was created by David Best called DC-13 is currently dead and totally destroyed located at the Silo in Houston Texas. I don't know why but it breaks my heart so see this art car in such a sad state. Enough said, what do you think? Via

The Santa Cruz Film Festival VIII Worlds Fastest Art Car in the Making-David Best & Crew

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I found this posted on facebook today and is a great way to see and art car in the making with time lapse video. Most people take weeks and even years to build their art cars. David Best with a team of people can take three days to build his cars. In this video they took one day to build the "worlds fastest art car". I don't know, I think I have seen faster but the end result is simply stunning. Here is the YouTube description of this video.

On Thursday, May 14, 2009 artist David Best and a team of art car creators beat and beaded a Miata into a masterpiece. The creation of the "world's fastest art car" at The Tannery Arts Center was completed in 14 hours by David Best and SCFF volunteers. This collaborative event was illuminated by our friends at Photoflex and filmed as a time lapse short by Peter McGettigan and Ed Schehl. The film screened alongside Harrod Blank's Automorphosis at the closing night festivities on Friday, May 15, 2009

Art Car Godfather David Best on a roll

There is no better way to describe David Best other than the Godfather of art cars. He is an internationally-renowned American sculptor, well-known for building immense temples out of recycled wood sheets at Burning Man festivals. He also known for his thirty or so art cars and two buses made from recycled materials and found objects, often retrieved from dumps and dumpsters. The David Best video best shows his process as he and a team of people take apart an old Cadillac to be reborn in and amazing art car. The funny thing is that I've seen his cars around on the Internet but had no idea who made them until I did a search and found all these cars under his name.



Rhino Art Car

Temple Art Bus



by Delta Niner

Beadmobile Art Car

by Bagel!


by That Car


by Tim_Klein

64 Cadillace Coupe de Ville

by Tirch


by Art Car Mark

"Milan Car" Cadilac art car

by blacklightsrus

by localcolorist



by WayWard or Michael



by Frank Synopsis