Volkswagen'due south top 5 art cars from around the earth

Musician Bob Grimm in the Light bus before Woodstock | Photo from Volkswagen

Musician Bob Grimm in the Lite bus before Woodstock | Photo from Volkswagen

To celebrate Leonardo da Vinci's birthday this month, Volkswagen produced a list of the nearly colorful and creative VWs customized by artists from around the world.

Let u.s. know your favorite by voting in our poll at the bottom of the page.

The 'Million Dollar' Scirocco

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Photos from Volkswagen

This wild, rainbow-colored 1980 Scirocco Southward was a 10-year project undertaken by Jason Whipple, co-founder of Rotiform Wheels, and British graphic artist Nicolai Sclater.

What started every bit an all-white blank canvas turned into a progressive and colorful optical illusion with a hand-painted rainbow motif and insightful phrases similar "things won't change until we practise" spelled out in blurry lettering.

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Co-ordinate to Whipple, everything nether the hood is 100 percent custom, including the swapped out transmission, hand-built engine and new engine management arrangement.

So why is information technology called the '1000000 Dollar' Scirocco? Because Whipple felt, at the time, he was spending a million dollars on the rebuild.

The Vochol

The Vochol Beetle at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City | Photos by Asociación de Amigos del Museo de Arte Popular

The Vochol Beetle at the Museo de Arte Pop in Mexico City | Photos by Asociación de Amigos del Museo de Arte Pop

Covered in over 2.2 meg glass beads depicting geometric patterns and scenes of animals and crops, the "Vochol" represents the ongoing traditions of Mexico's ethnic communities.

"The proper noun 'Vochol' is a combination of 'vocho,' a common term for Volkswagen Beetles in United mexican states, and 'Huichol,' some other name for the Wixárika ethnic grouping in the western states of Nayarit and Jalisco, Mexico," said Volkswagen in its story about this beaded masterpiece.

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Deputed in 2010, a team of eight artists from ii Huichol families meticulously decorated the chassis and interior of the '90s Beatle by hand, taking over 9,000 hours to complete.

Woodstock'due south 'Light' Passenger vehicle

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Volkswagen

One of the most famous VW vans of all fourth dimension is Bob Grimm'south psychedelic "magic bus" that became an icon at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

Painted by creative person Robert "Dr. Bob" Hieronimus in 1968, the omnibus is adorned with colorful cosmic symbols, archetypal motifs and words in aboriginal languages that symbolized the Summer of Love.

For Woodstock's 50th anniversary in 2017, Hieronimus planned to film a documentary restoring the old psychedelic van, but he and Grimm couldn't call back where they left it fifty years agone. Later an extensive search involving researchers, private detectives and fifty-fifty a psychic, the autobus was never plant.

Giving upwardly their search in 2018, they decided to create an verbal replica at present know as the "Light" autobus.

To learn more, bank check out Hieronimus' documentary titledThe Woodstock Bus.

The Hymeneals Beetle

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Volkswagen

Making your Cinderella dreams come true, this whimsical, fe-bodied Beetle was created by Mexico Metropolis welder and blacksmith Rafael Esparza-Prieto.

In 1968, Esparza-Prieto congenital this Beetle's skeleton using white wrought iron and filled in the gaps with floral patterns and decorative swirls.

Blown away by his talent, Volkswagen commission Esparza-Prieto to create two more Wedding Beetles to put on display at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico Metropolis.

Esparza-Prieto immigrated to California, where he built another pair of Wedding Beetles. Other welders take created the magical Beetle in his laurels, so in full there are most 23 Nuptials Beetles in the earth today establish on brandish in museums or well-kept in private collections.

The Mountainous Masterpiece

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Volkswagen

As the official sponsorship vehicle for the Professional person Ski Instructors of America and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors in 2017, Volkswagen gifted the PSIA-AASI's operational leadership team a new Atlas, Tiguan and Golden Alltrack for its back up vehicle armada.

To brand these SUVs stand out amongst the snow, Volkswagen deputed Pacific Northwest creative person Mimi Kvinge to give them a colorful makeover.

Kvinge painted a beautiful mountainous landscape with vivid blue-sky background on each vehicle.

Courtesy of Classiccars.com