Originally Posted by Resident Sicko

Originally Posted by Key

Sichuan Online reported on the night of December 14, 4 drivers, Yin, Zhou, Zhang and Zhu each drove their newly bought Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and two Porsche 911s and past a traffic police on duty. The police conducted ordered them to each write a self-criticism.



After taking the mug shots, police further investigated drivers’ identities and found Yin, Zhou, Zhang and Zhu, whose parents are all very influential businessmen in Chongqing.

According to the report, 4 of them each drove their newly bought luxury sports cars (total worth about 10 million yuan, that’s 1.5 million USD).

In the police station, the police conducted a 3-hour long safety warning education on these “second generation rich” kids, and also carried out the punishment according to the law: 4 drivers were fined 150 yuan (that’s about 20 USD) with 3 points on their driving record; the Lamborghini driver was fined 150 yuan with 6 points for not having a license plate in front of the car.

After accepting their punishment, Yin, Zhou, Zhang and Zhu all had to write a self-criticism on the hood of their cars.

Originally Posted by curve lover

Originally Posted by curve lover

In the Christmas spirit:

Originally Posted by cocogogo22

Here is my 356 in Montana, yes we still get snow here. and yes that is me driving it. I've made these into Christmas cards if you are interested go to http://robwilke.com/porsche/

Thanks!

Rob

Originally Posted by Peter Zuspan

Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm’s corpulen Fat Convertible (2004) is a striking object, not only for the polished craftsmanship of its fabrication, a baroque tour de force of industrial arts, but more for the ease with which it presents itself. The familiarity of both the glossy red Porsche and the swollen folds of obesity cloaks the uncomfortable combination of man and machine in a kind of easiness, in which the result is less a contemplation of formal meanings or even the satirical political overtones of gluttonous consumerism or overwrought financial markets, but most immediately, in quasi-sensational fashion, humor and delight.

The cartoon-like convertible exhibits an active anthropomorphism in which the sculpted obesity suggests an activity: The fat holds an indexical relationship to eating, suggesting that consumption constructs a kind of interior for the object. If an object can eat and swell, the object has an inside.




PZ: One of the things that first brought me to your work a few years ago was your use of fat. Your first Fat Car (2001) is a kind of drag show in which the fat hangs off of an otherwise untouched original. Your later Fat Convertible (2004) and Fat House (2003) start to have a swelling of the interior as well, a kind of post-operative version in which the transformation is not just clothing or cladding, but a change that effects the entire anatomy. What caused the fat to turn inside?

EW: With the first car, I didn’t think about it. But if I had thought about it carefully enough the first time, I would have also made it fat inside because the idea was to combine a technical system (the car) and a biological system (the human being or animal or whatever). And I thought that if I looked at the car from this point of view, I would have to decide where the bones would be. What are those parts of the body that don’t grow even when you're really fat?—like the eyes, the teeth, the navel, the knees, and maybe the elbows. So, I decided that several parts of the car are related to the body, equatable with bones, eyes, and so on. And then, I realized that fat not only grows outside, but it also grows inside of us. Fat also destroys the inside of the biological organism.

Originally Posted by Einarbache

On the way to the mountains for skiing - Norway 1963

Originally Posted by FlatSix911

Merry Christmas to all ...

Originally Posted by cocogogo22

Here is my 356 in Montana, yes we still get snow here. and yes that is me driving it. I've made these into Christmas cards if you are interested go to http://robwilke.com/porsche/

Thanks!

Rob

Originally Posted by curve lover

Guards Red + snow-capped mountains = a Merry Colorado Christmas

Originally Posted by curve lover

Originally Posted by curve lover

Coleman's Flat Olive Drab 993 Twin Turbo.

Originally Posted by doruiacovescu

Custom Kitsch

Originally Posted by curve lover

Originally Posted by blitz928

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