Favorite Art Car

[Porsche917K]

After looking back into BMW's plans for an art car at Le Mans in 2010 it made me wonder what everyones favorite one was. I also found a picture of Jeff Koon's doing research for the 2010 BMW at the Sebring winter test which is encouraging

As for me here is my favorite, and I apologize for the large pictures i'm pretty new to the forum.

[Acid09]

Most of BMW's Art Cars were awesome, my favorite is the Andy Warhol M1.

The last Art Car was pretty weak though, a BMW LMR "designed" by some female artist.

Nice to see BMW picking that concept back up

[MulsanneMike]

The Stella car always reminded me of a engineering drawing, but the Roy Lichtenstein art car is my fav.

[Fogelhund]

While it isn't a BMW "Art" car, my preference is the 917 LH "Hippie".

[Dead-Eye]

For reference: http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009...-art-cars.aspx

It's the Warhol M1 for me...but I'm very happy to finally see a new racing Art Car instead of the weird concepts they did in recent years.

[KA]

Originally Posted by Dead-Eye

For reference: http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009...-art-cars.aspx

It's the Warhol M1 for me...but I'm very happy to finally see a new racing Art Car instead of the weird concepts they did in recent years.

The two that always puzzled me are the Ken Done and Michael Jagamara Nelson M3s- both done on Group A racing M3s, but neither ever raced in that form- IIRC the cars (ex-BMW Australia?) were retired from racing and used as Art Cars? Doesn't seem much point in using the race cars if they weren't going to be used....

[joeb]

I enjoyed the Audi R8 Crocodile car from 2000. Pic.

[dj choc ice]

i love the Oreca's with the mondrian livery, very swish but the Warhol M1 is the winner, hands down.

[MulsanneMike]

Originally Posted by Fogelhund

While it isn't a BMW "Art" car, my preference is the 917 LH "Hippie".

Lapine's livery was divine.

[Dead-Eye]

Originally Posted by joeb

I enjoyed the Audi R8 Crocodile car from 2000. Pic.

Thank you very much, you just made me buy a model of it

[GT2-R]

I'll take the Flying Lizard #80 at Le Mans:

[HJJ]

Calder 3.0 CSL for me.

[fieldodreams79]

as a fan of Pork Products, i've kinda always liked the Pink Pig/Meat 917, even though i don't find it to be particularly attractive. then again, neither are pigs.

[skycafe]

I loved the humor in the Pink Pig, and that you could do that sort of thing then. I miss those days.

I probably liked the Calder BMW the most for attractiveness, but the Stella one was great too, as long as you had the info that it incorporated the performance graphs as part of the design. Brilliant.

I guess Bolus and Snopes 'Prepared by H' isn't going to get mentioned except by a nut like me.

[cmk]

Pink Pig for humour value, but another vote for the 917LH 'Hippie' Martini car from me as my overall favourite. I like the BMW material, but I guess I've a soft spot for the end of the 60s?

[porsche91722]

I will probably be proven wrong here, but how successful were the art cars? I remember the hippie Martini 917 coming second at Le Mans in 1970 but any of the rest of them didn't exactly do anything flash. It seems like a bit of a curse to do the art car thing. All about a bit of self promotion I suppose, they certainly achieve that.

[fieldodreams79]

as others have stated, it kinda "paints" a lighter side to racing. obviously, the paint doesn't make the car fast, unless it has flames, of course.

as for their success, i don't know about the others, but the Pink Pig-917/20, designed to handle like a short tail but be "slippery" like a long tail, crashed while being driven by Reinhold Joest in the 1971 La Sarthe event.

still....neat cars all 'round, even though i don't particularly care for some of the "art".

[Tom908V12]

Originally Posted by dj choc ice

i love the Oreca's with the mondrian livery,...

Then prepare to be amazed when you discover their 908 saturday this week

[AndrewF31]

Originally Posted by Tom908V12

Then prepare to be amazed when you discover their 908 saturday this week

Can't wait to see that.

The Andy Warhol BMW is very good looking. Also liked the flying Lizards livery from LM in 2007, already mentioned.

Racing for Holland's Domes from the early 2000s with those funny looking checkered publicity grids, which basically were useless for sponsors as you'd have to be really close up to see what was there, were also quite interesting, but probably not considered at art car.