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Published: 2011-06-19 08:46:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 3358; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 16
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I'll move this to scraps after everyone's seen it.This is something I just pretty quickly threw together when I couldn't draw anymore tonight. I wanted to try out my photo manipulation skills so I thought what cooler way to do it then try and 'alive' the worthless cars (ones that I've done so far) with their real-life counter parts?
Anyway, I'm hoping some of you will find it interesting. Some of them are more manipulated then others, had to change the eyes on the Superbird, the real car has 4 headlights.. had to stretch them into only having 2. Added a little smile to Pinky's grille, I would have done the same to the Woodie Wagon but she already looks like she's smiling already. BTW, no I have no idea who the people in that picture are.
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Oh did you now? There was a public poll on that you know. XD
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I viewed the "Worthless" video on Youtube, and I looked at it and there was those corvette gills on the side, so i think it was a corvette
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-the hood opens the opposite way on the Corvette
-the corvette is made of so much fiberglass the magnet probably wouldn't have been able to lift him up. XD
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oh, then I got it all twisted, XD never mind.
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Hey, random, but I saw the KITT in your icon. XD
I'd really love to do an anthro-KITT pornz.. but I don't really know the show well enough.. or maybe that doesn't matter. But anyway, if I were to draw pornz of KITT, anything in particular you'd like to see? Or maybe have a suggestion for an idea. : D
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really? you just noticed it?Β XD
uh, i would keep the Kitt to me and you can just draw him clean like if he was going to shoot a pea-shooter at a person no one has ever done that here XD wouldn't that be funny?
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It would be funny, but not hot.. that will not do. : P
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well, I was planning to draw Kitt nude, So that's my job
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Yeah.. but an ANTHRO naked KITT? : P With a big dick and balls and everything? hehe
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ppppttthh I don't know X) if you want to I was hoping to see a 2009 Dodge ram Durango on the pornz or whatever
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Omg that was you who keeps asking me to draw a giant truck's package? XD I didn't know you were on FA.
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the truth is that I was feeliong pretty crappy and sad because of issues with my mother and I needed something to keep me under my cry control
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Even when I'm randomly searching art, I run into your stuff. I've spent a couple of hours trying to find a specific picture of a Superbird, then I saw this. You are distracting me from my mission. xD
This is wonderful though. I've seen a few other people do these but none look quite as realistic as this one. I love how they all turned out, and Pinkies' smile is charming. I like how you made the Surfer Wagon look fondly at those people. It made the scene look very endearing.
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I sorry!
Oh the Woodie is actually supposed to be looking at the camera. XD
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I eventually found it. I was just looking for a die cast Superbird to look at the bottom of. I needed it for a picture of Expresso I was doing. I have a diecast Superbird but I didn't want to take it off of the stand. It's a bitch unscrewing a million little screws.
Both works. xD
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My my, when did you upload this piece? Fantastic work my friend.
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Well the date-stamp on the pic info says "June 19, 2011" so I guess that's when. 
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lol do you want to is the question then eh?
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Not now, too much else on my plate to get done before my mind wanders to another interest. >>;
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of course ^^ Don't want to bog yourself down.
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Well some things take priority.
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if memory serves me well the muscle car from BLT was more of a tricked out 69-72 corvett than a superbird... and how come i have never seen any love for the old pickup that was sitting on top of the school bus in the movie he was the only one still running.... i felt bad for that old ford... 
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The muscle car in TBLT was larger then a Vette, his hood opened the opposite way a Vette's hood opens..and a 69 Corvette doesn't have a trunk like his. But the rest of the styling matches up.. I think the car in the movie is a kind of hybrid of the two.
Well I'm sorry I haven't gotten to him yet! Oo;
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no no i see those three a lot on different subjects but never that poor poor Green Truck... (i call him Ol' Green) i think he has the saddest of all stories and i think he should have a spot light someday... i ment nothing by it
you maybe right about the hybrid though i just don't think he's a superbird because of the crome bumper as his lower jaw.... for all i know he could be a forign car form some back water country for all i know (shrug)
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"Ol' Green" that's a good name, fitting. I dunno, I mean I agree..as far as emotion and sadness he takes the cake, at least as far as what the movie shows for sure compared to the other cars. The other cars seem oddly emotionaless for the most part..but he actually seems genuinely sad.
But to be honest? I think one thing that makes it hard, is I actually CANT see him having ever been happy. He just doesn't look like the type.. almost like a clinical depression sufferer or something. Like even if he were to smile.. he'd still have those sad eyes. I wasn't planning on doing ALL the cars just so you know.. after finishing Pinky I was gonna do a picture for the Indie 500 race-car and that was it. But we'll see how I feel after all that.
The bumper and side vents are the only questioning thing for me. I mean I can go with him not having the classic Superbird tail-fin.. since his rear is all crunched up it probably broke off. I just go on the assumption that he was a heavily modded Superbird. But something that might blow your mind a little with the bumper.. I found THIS.. it looks a lot like the bumper in the movie.. though this one isn't chrome. [link]
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Both cars reside there... i still have my doughts about him being a superbird (only say that cause i am a huge fan of the superbird) but there is evidence i just don't think the proportions are right (even with the rear end damage) to match the superbird.Most people couldn't afford a superbird let alone drive it for millions of miles till the engine quit (my other reason i have my doughts) my old man (big fan of that movie from waaaay back) had always said he thought it was a 66 Olds Tornado with the damage i think it could be...
i don't really care if you ever do the truck i just made a comment saying i felt bad for him.... according to his part of the song he was lefted behind by his owner at a reservation... lived there for a while then sold to a kid with a licence who drove him for miles as far as the kids money would take him and left(the truck)where it ran out of gas or stalled and was dumped off at ernie's instead of the police impound... his damages came from his time spent at ernie's
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So what your saying is that you don't believe he was a Superbird because you really don't WANT him to be.. because of the tragic loss of such a collectors car.
If you've looked at my other drawings of this character. In the artist description I pointed out that he'd have been hard to buy.. expensive and all. So I rationalized that the owner must have bought him from some ol' yokel who had the car rotting in his backyard and/or didn't really know or care about it's value... ie: they got lucky. But why wouldn't they be able to afford driving it cross country?
Is that your own style for Ol' Green? That's fine if it is of course. But the lyrics never say anything mentioning that stuff.
"I worked on a reservation, and who would believe they would love me and leave, on a bus back to ol' Santa Fe. Once in an Indian nation, I'd take the kids on the skids with a Hopi, who was happy to lie their and say.. "you're worthless."
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"I worked on a reservation, and who would believe they would love me and leave me".... (donated to or left behind at an Indian reservation) (after a while he was happy just being there being driven by some kids until he was told he was a worthless heap)"Once in an Indian nation, I'd take the kids on the skids with a Hopi, who was happy UNTILL I HERD THEM say.. "you're worthless." (or atleast that's what i hear when he sings)
Yes that is part of the reason i wont except him as a superbird but the Main reason is that if the movie is set during the time it was made (1980 something) a 70's superbird wouldn't be junked that fast because of a broken or worn out motor it's still a relitively new car even with really really high miles... that's why i can't accept him as a superbird (lightly anyway)
i have seen other pics of yours however as for reading .... (no offence) i get bored reading really long discriptions about half way through... that's why mine are short sweet and to the point..... that and i am too lazy to type all i have to say about what took me an hour or so to make... (sometimes less) and if people have questions i reply to there comments with the answers if i can...
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A lot of the lyrics are hard to make out in 'Worthless' if not all the songs in the movie.. mostly because of the fast pace I think. But if you look up the lyrics from the official CD release he says exactly what I wrote. "-With a Hopi who was happy to lie there and say 'you're worthless." In case you didn't know, it's referring to the Hopi Indian tribe.. Rather then write more of my own stuff, I'll quote someone from an analysis article I found a while back:
"The Hopi Reservation is located in Arizona and is inhabited by the Hopi and Arizona Tewa. The bus left "back to old Santa Fe". The word "back" implies a return, and sure enough, the reservation in Santa Fe is the NambΓ© Pueblo, inhabited by the Tewa tribe, of which the Arizona Tewa are descendants.
The truck sings about taking poor Hopi children off skid row until he was no longer deemed necessary, at which point he was told he was worthless and was abandoned.
Unlike the other cars, this truck drives away when the magnet approaches, but not to escape. He deliberately drives onto the conveyor belt, effectively committing suicide. He acknowledges that his time is over, but he prefers to exercise the small amount of freedom that remains to him by choosing death himself rather than being forcefully dragged into it."
The movie was actually made in 1989.. with could make the sports car 19 years old. Considering he was driven constantly and for long distances I don't see why it'd be impossible for him to break down in that time. Keep in mind it might not have been a serious malfunction, but the owner dumped him simply out of just having that 'get a new one' attitude. This makes sense since the movie has a strong anti-consumerism' message...
I'm sad to hear you couldn't read everything I wrote. But if you're not invested or interested to do the reading I guess you're not worth being sad about right? 
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Sorry for not responding for sooo. long life got in the way and i wish to apologies. i feel as if i lost what is really important here an excellent picture based on a childhood favorite movie (of both of us apparently). the more and more i look through my comments the more i feel like i was a total dick :/ so if i can i wish to start over. i would also like to add great work on Mitzy don't give up. I believe she will be a blast once she gets up and running properly.
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you may be on to something i have always felt bad for that truck i respect his choice to kill himself other than being forced to but like you said "The movie was actually made in 1989" making the earliest i could have seen it would be 96-97 to even be old enough to comprehend anything other than what my parents told me (like any 4-5 year old) and base my opinions on what i thought when i first seen it....
I also didn't say it was impossible for the muscle car to brake down in 19 years but (i know you pictured him with a woman driver) if the owner was a gear head like most peole who own muscle cars (i can tell he was because he had "MAG" wheels and rims) if they blew one engine they would put a bigger and better one in for less then a new car would cost (or make it a dragster/gasser and run it on the track here and there)
I enjoy BLT and all but one of it's sequels (goes to mars is not one i particularly care for) And i have my opinions on hidden messages in all of them that my be why i have particular feeling or a mind set on how i "Ol' Green" was portaraid
(no i take no offense)
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Given the background the forum post talked about, how Ol' Green was used entirely to run poor children (maybe whole families too but he had a thing for kids?) off from the ghetto communities, maybe that's why I could never picture him as ever being very cheery. I mean, I used to live next to an Indian reservation, the one in Bellingham Washington, which had a lot of ghetto parts.. and yeah.. they're very depressing, creepy, scary places. This one in particular because the reservation was in a very forested area.
Speaking of which, I remember when I was a kid my dad would take me to an Indian ran auto junkyard on the reservation. It was a very creepy place but I loved going there anyway. It was just a big weedy clearing back in the woods, right off a back-road. It was mostly deserted and you'd be back there any not hear anything but insect/bird songs. The weeds were never cut down either so you'd see wrecked cars back buried inside the weeds... it was very odd and creepy.
I completely agree with you on what you said about the muscle car. It was quite obvious his owner was a gear-head. But the idea I'd always had was that the owner was a drifter.. and as such probably never had a ton of money since they never held down a steady job. I'm guessing whenever the owner decided to go 'drifting' she blew the majority of her money on getting the car.. then just kinda went from there.
This was still back when people would hitch-hike, I assumed if she didn't have the money to buy a new engine at the time he broke down, she was forced to abandon the car by the side of the road and hitch-hike the rest of the way.. where ever she was headed.
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i have never been to a junk yard so i think that would sound fun to scavage around for stuff..
i did some research on "Ol' Green" and learned he is not actually a ford at all.... he is a 46' Chevy if you look at one you can clearly tell that that is what they based his (character?)model after other than Pinky and the Surfer Van, Ol' Green is one of the few actually based on real cars not just a collecting of auto features to resemble a car (Muscle car, and the first car crushed in movie.... among others)
So Ol' Green had seen a lot of action and hard ships in his life time at least 43 years of it that my be why he was so sad or depressed.... that and if you were in his shoes wouldn't u be sad if you weren't useful to anyone anymore...? (hints why he gets the a good chunk of lyrics in the song)
I guess everyone is intitled to their opinions i don't think a superbird is the muscle car model but who knows.... maybe it was a short lived model that never got as famous as others.... or we are going about this all wrong and he isn't a muscle car but a sports car (difference is that sports cars have more torque than horsepower perfect for a drifter driving everywhere in a hurry)
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You've NEVER been to a junkyard?! 
Yep.. he's a 40s Chevy alright. True, he is the most recognizable as a real car. Though more of the cars are real cars then you think I think. For example the Indie 500 car is a 1930's Bugatti T35B [link] whoever put a 1930s classic in the dump should be shot btw.. The Wedding Limo and Hearse are actually both 1950s Roll Royces..which ironically they both made into wedding cars AND hearses. [link] [link] if you look during the song, the hearse even has (it's bent) the big Rolls Royce hood ordament. That really covers about all the main cars. I still don't know what the blue car at the beginning is though.
Exactly, 40 years of doing work like that would wear on anyone's outlook on life.. just seeing pain and hardship your whole career?
Well not a muscle car.. though it's modified for offroad and they might have put a different engine in.. but it's known as a race-car. I'm kind of confused on the topic, but from what I gater it seems like they made 2 models of the Superbird. There's the Dodge Charger Daytona version [link] that was used in NASCAR (think 'The King' in Cars the movie) then they made a 1970s version they called the 'roadrunner.' The road-runners had leather tops, I think I heard it was to cover up weld marks in the design or something Oo.. but anyway. Since the Daytona version is the only one that's a hardtop.. that'd have to mean THIS car would have to be Charger actually... and from 69 instead of 70. Look at the Wiki and see if I'm right: [link]
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ah see that was the missing problem.... I instantly thought of the Daytona version (hints why i said expensive lot) the Charger one is a little cheaper(back in the 70's that is) truth is that i forgot all about the charger version.... If he is a charger version then i my have a reason he dosn't have the famous wing....
In the mid-70's through the mid-80's people would mod cars to their liking to a greater extent then in the 60's and under. Some people loved the Daytona but couldn't afford it so they bought the cheapest charger they could and added the front clip and the wing.....
or one or the other.... now say our mistery owner who ditched our friend the muscle car before he (she)could get the money to finish the customization (you know with traveling all the time)
I also found these nascar prototypes (according to the artical) and take a close look at the top one [link]
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Aww. The Superbird looks so sad!
All of the other pics are bright and shiny and his looks like he has been abandoned.
I really love how you did this! <3
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Well I have to admit, almost all the pictures you find of Superbirds their headlights are closed up. I had to go to a site devoted to abandoned Superbirds to get that picture.
Thanks so much.
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Not meant to be entirely sad
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o.o because they are more realistic makes me sad D:
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I know Kitty, it's like taking the movie into our world. You can see THOSE cars as THE cars now.. or whatever. Anyway yes I know what you mean girl. It is very sad. -.-
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*crushing hug* ^^ purr
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