Inspired by his girlfriend Celeste's marvelous Monkey
Mobile, Paul Granard cre
ated Dino-A-Go-Go in 2001 using a
$200 Toyota as his base car. The little green car has sprouted palm trees and a
diorama with lakes and furious battles between competing paleolithic
life forms. Big
dino heads project from the quarter panels and the rear deck of the car. A
plastic volcano spews molten lava from the center of the roof, while dinosaurs
frolic undeterred roundabout the smoking cone. And there's a skeletal T-Rex in
profile on each door. In parades, the owners mug for the crowd with dinosaur
hand puppets held out the windows.
This is one car that must be seen to be believed. Kids love it--including Art Car aficionado Dr. Schlock!
Dino A-Go-Go has been a dependable unit of the Seattle Art Cars
ever since its
creation. It 
was seen in the
Tacoma Art Museum show in June 2001, at the
2001 Blowout in Seattle, and at the show at the Snohomish County Art Center in
Everett on 9/13/01. See Dino A-Go-Go at Art Car Blowout 2002
in Seattle.
Photos
copyright © 2001 by Larry Neilson.