Dodge City: So long to the art car of East 11th Street

You've likely seen this Dodge over on East 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...



The art car — titled Painting the Dodge, 20 years in the making — is the work of East Village-based artist Hanne "H7L" Lauridsen.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy caught up with H7L outside her studio on East 11th Street Sunday ...



Turns out that the car is off soon to Art Car World, an Arizona-based museum "dedicated entirely to the celebration and preservation of this popular mobile art form."



Happy trails.

The art of travel

EVG contributor Stacie Joy spotted this art car today on First Avenue and East Ninth Street ...

Things that randomly appear on 1st Avenue around 1 a.m.

EVG reader Sam Teichman spotted this unattended vehicle early this morning between East Seventh Street and St. Mark's Place... seemingly came out of nowhere...





Also, can any car people out there let us know what this is...?

A British immigrant on the LES

EV Grieve reader Samo notes a 53 MG on Forsyth and Houston that drew admiring stares yesterday...

Some FYI per Jalopnik:

The '53 MG TD came with a 54.4 horsepower pushrod four-cylinder engine (yes, that extra 4/10th of a horse was so important that MG included it in the power rating) and was priced at $1,945. That was about $1,500 less than The General's new sports car, the '53 Corvette, but 200 bucks cheaper (and orders of magnitude better-looking) than the Triumph Mayflower. Budget-minded car shoppers who wanted to go a little less sporty could buy the bargain-basement '53 Ford coupe- which probably outperformed the prewar-technology MG TD in just about every category save parallel parking ability — for just $1,734.

Feeling Seven-Ups

We've always liked this ride usually parked on 13th Street between Third Avenue and Second Avenue (photographed here in October 2008)...

We particularly like Bagnostian's take on it via his Tumblr...




Seems like it could have been an extra in The Seven-Ups.