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Hunka Hunka Burnin' Junk

Posted September 12, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Each May, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore hosts the East Coast Kinetic Sculpture Race Championship on the shore of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The eight-hour race covers 15 miles–mostly on pavement, but also includes a trip into the Baltimore Harbor. For the 2006 race, Mark Wamaling and Jeff Colburn made a plaster cast of the front & rear ends of a '67 Cadillac owned by Jeff's neighbor, the pattern for a sculpture they named Hunka Hunka Burnin' Junk.

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09/13/2008 9:22 AM

A tiki bar on the hoof - complete with members of the East Coast Chapter of the Floating Elvises! Wotta concept...

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