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Carhenge – what the hell?

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Stonehenge – Americana-style. This peculiar piece in Alliance, Nebraska is an aesthetic lifted from Return to Oz (1985). I fear the Wheelers when I look at this, not the Druids.

38 spray-painted vintage cars put together in 1987 by local Jim Reinders as a memorial to his father. I like the idea of that, a gnarly construct to the departed, not some grim, dull statue for an inebriated plonker to stick a traffic cone on.

Further reading/viewing:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/03/carhenge-a-replica-of-stonehenge-made-of-thirty-eight-american-vintage-cars-and-trucks/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdAKZSfIm8o

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