Sunday, September 9, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1985 Toyota Master Ace Art Car

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and you need something to drive to Burning Man, you'll find that the glue-a-bunch-of-stuff-all-over-a-random-vehicle art-car approach will let your ride fit in just as effortlessly on the playa as the soccer mom's Voyager blends in at the mall parking lot. I'm not against art cars (I consider my 1965 Impala Hell Project to be an art car at heart), but I prefer the approach of the artists who built such fine machines as the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir or the street-driven Denver Pirate Ship to the type who feels contempt for the canvas disappearing beneath their hot-glue gun. Anyway, the upshot of the large number of Bay Area art-car types who glue 10,000 plastic army men or Lucky Lager caps all over their cars is that many of them wind up in self-service wrecking yards. Here's a Toyota Master Ace aka Toyota Space Cruiser aka Toyota Van that I spotted last weekend at an East Bay self-serve yard.
The thing about these cars is that the owners often pick up many parking tickets and/or don't do any maintenance on the mechanical components. That's probably how the skull-covered '69 Mustang and Groovalicious Purple Princess of Peace Taurus wagon ended up getting picked over for parts by befuddled junkyard shoppers.
The dash of this Master Ace is covered with wedding toppers, graduation-cake decorations, and plastic bowlers.
It's too bad that spell-checkers don't work on backwards writing.
A Master Ace should be good for many more miles than 209,691. Very slow miles, sure, but more of them.
It looks like a thrift-store toy bin exploded in here.
Here's a cool find: an ANC pin from the apartheid era.
The Department of Mutant Vehicles probably wasn't impressed by the Thrift Store Explosion Master Ace (how could you be impressed when you've got stuff like the Telephone Car driving around?), but I'll be it went over big at the Forbidden Island.

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from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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  1. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM

    Holy cow what an awesome find!! Straight out of the 70's, I love it. Who on Earth would abandon such a great automobile?

    -David Enabulele
    Atlanta Junk Cars

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