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Re: 3-story tall filing cabinet with graphic LCD placards housing 1974 M

To: Ajhsys@aol.com
Subject: Re: 3-story tall filing cabinet with graphic LCD placards housing 1974 MG Mid...
From: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:00:59 -0600 (MDT)
Allen, I am not walking all the way to Washington from Boulder.  However
you might get more support if you would let people drive instead of walk.

James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'71 BGT rust free and burnt orange
'63 Buick 215 

"Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines"
Enzo Ferrari

On Fri, 26 May 2000 Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:

> Sign the petition!  Help stamp out abuse of sports cars!  Join the MMM 
> (Million MG March) to Washington this Memorial Day weekend!
> 
> Allen
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> In a message dated 5/26/00 1:42:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mvheim@studiolimage.com writes:
> 
> << This project consists of what it says -- a three-story tall filing 
>  cabinet. In the file drawers are the remnants of a shredded 1974 Midget. 
>  The pieces are sorted and filed by weight. Apparently the LCD screens are 
>  intended to be attached to the fronts of the drawers to show pictures of 
>  the pieces, which will flash by in 1/3 second, controlled by computer.
>  
>  I don't know if the artist deliberately chose a Midget for personal or 
>  symbolic reasons, or it was just an old wreck handy to be shredded. Maybe 
>  it was his driver and Lucas let him down one too many times.
>  
>  Curiously, I know of one other piece of "small roadster art". In San 
>  Francisco on 3rd Street across from Moscone Center there is a multistory 
>  parking garage. On the outside of the top floor is the body of a Fiat 850 
>  Spider, cut into even size squares, and laid out flat against the 
>  vertical surface of the building, looking like a cut-out paper model 
>  waiting to be folded. >>
> 


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