James Ford is a genius of multiplication. Here he’s made a magnificent sculpture of one big car covered with thousands of tiny ones. The General Carbuncle, it’s called. The large car is a Automatic MkIII Ford Capri manufactured in Britain, 1981, while the small cars are utterly random in their origin, numbering 4,342 exactly. The fabulous part of this project, (amongst fabulous parts,) is that the cars glued to the big car were in a large part donated from people around the world! Fantabulous colaboration.

Check out this info from James R Ford and the statistics and in-progress photos below of this wonderous art car. How will the Duke boys get out of this one? Edit: They’re out! The car is completely and totally complete.

Transforming a second-hand Ford Capri into the General Lee, from the Dukes of Hazzard, by covering it in little toy cars. Over four thousand toy cars were needed and so, in addition to searching out and purchasing appropriate toy cars himself, an appeal was started for people all over the world to send him their disused toy cars. The donator could leave a little message in the toy car, or mark it in some way, so they actually became part of the art whilst contributing to the sculpture and thus creating a global art collaboration.

Final toy car total = 4,342

DIMENSIONS

Height from ground = 127 cm

Total length = 426 cm

Total width = 153 cm

Bonnet = 132 x 127 cm

Roof = 135 x 120 cm

Automatic MkIII Ford Capri manufactured in Britain, 1981

INTERESTING GENERAL CARBUNCLE FACTS

Number of cars to cover a door = 450
Number of cars to cover the bonnet = 1,000
Number of cars to cover the roof = 900
Estimated total to cover the entire car = 3,500 – 4,500 (approximations)

The most popular toy cars submitted have been T-birds and Double Decker buses.

The furthest away that a donation has been sent from is Sydney, Australia.

The most unusual toy car donated has been a VW van with a pop-up “Kermit the Frog”

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