And on the subject of looking at cars while walking, I remembered something
somewhere in Kingsley Amis, in a letter to Larkin I think, where he defines a
bore as someone who “when
he sees an unusual car in the street GOES OVER AND HAS A LOOK AT IT.” Well,
just one more thing to disagree about with Kingsley Amis.
So I wonder how
he’d have felt about wrapped cars. It’s
not specifically a Los Angeles thing, the English do it too. This one was in Suffolk:
This one in Essex:
But LA seems to
contain a higher number than anywhere I’ve ever been. I suppose it protects cars from passing
vandals, and I think from the burning sun.
Only the first of these is a problem in England.
You assume there
must be a really nice care under the wrapping, something worth protecting, but
you can never be completely sure:
And if you’re enough
of a motorhead I dare say you can always tell what’s under wraps, and some are
obviously much easier than others. VW
Beetles are especially easy to spot:
And you know,
aesthete that I am, when I see wrapped cars I’m often reminded of the bondage
photographs of Araki:
And more often of
Christo – like this:
And this:
But then, wouldn’t
you know it, I found this picture; a Beetle wrapped by Christo himself – well
worth going over and having a look, I’d have said.
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