Sacrificing a hearse to create art

Ken Novak said:
Seems that Superior really did hold up well under high impact, well built coach. Any Cadillac would have done to create the front end art....too bad another oldie but goodie was wasted.
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Look closer, my friend........................it's an S&S Victoria!
 
What a waste indeed, why couldnt they have used an 80's or newer more common style. One more reason to snatch up anything we can to keep it out of the hands of people with intentions like this. I like art but ill take a classic hearse over art any day.
 
Maybe some of you didn't like what was done to the hearse for the sake of art. So be it. However saying the guy should have stood between the car and the wall for "added color" is way over the line. I thought this site had standards for posts. You'e sounding like a bunch of Pebble Beach snobs that couldn't possibly allow a hot rod or other non-classic car to attend one of their shows. Wishing for the mans demise shows just how shallow some of you are. These things that you are so in love with are nothing more then cars. Mechanical souless lifeless heaps of metal. Now if you want to act more like children then go ahead and add your groans to my profile. One more thing if the member that posted the video in the first place was so outraged, then why post it at all?
 
Well,Joe's got a point that there is a certain subset of artistic expression that is really pretty anarchic and makes a point of destroying objects valued by those not part of the anarchist community.There's something of a parallel between this piece of expression and Peter Townshend of England's The Who trashing any number of American made Gibson and Rickenbacker guitars as the finale of his band's performances....

The destruction of the S&S Victoria being particularly gratuitous (in that it was done to get an impression of the identical-to-stock front end),it's inevitable that the professional car community would take major offense. I suppose it's equally inevitable in these times of Internet hyperbole that someone in our community might suggest-purely as an artistic statement,y'understand-the desirability of destruction-artistes becoming part of their artistic creations.Moral equivalence,anyone?;)
 
To veer off topic for a minute,Pete Townsend of the who was in Stratford Ont.the other night as the festival premiered the remake of the rock opera Tommy,time has not been good to him,and he does seem mellow, but he did pipe in that teenage stars with money do act funny and weird referring to stratfords own Justin Bieber,thinking now that breaking wind would be enough for Pete.:myopinion::my2cents:
 
Joe Sebbio said:
Maybe some of you didn't like what was done to the hearse for the sake of art. So be it. However saying the guy should have stood between the car and the wall for "added color" is way over the line. I thought this site had standards for posts. You'e sounding like a bunch of Pebble Beach snobs that couldn't possibly allow a hot rod or other non-classic car to attend one of their shows. Wishing for the mans demise shows just how shallow some of you are. These things that you are so in love with are nothing more then cars. Mechanical souless lifeless heaps of metal. Now if you want to act more like children then go ahead and add your groans to my profile. One more thing if the member that posted the video in the first place was so outraged, then why post it at all?
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I didn't say I wanted him to die. There is a difference in modifying and destroying a hearse, sometime not much of a difference. I have friends with modified hearses.
This is not the worst thing I have seen as "art". There was a Costa Rican "artist" in Nicaragua that exhibited/tortured a starving dog. He tied the dog up inside the gallery with no food, water, or anything else. That is not art, it's cruelty plain and simple. I know this is an extreme example, but it show what some people call "art".
 
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