Prank – Amsterdam artist pimps peoples rides without them knowing

There’s no camera filming the outcome, no pictures freezing the owner’s amazement when he sees his new car, and Xzibit won’t be there to say that “you’ve been officially pimped.” That doesn’t make what this guy did less attractive, though; in fact, the way he does it is even better.

If you’re obsessed about cars like we are, you probably have stumbled upon odd contraptions that simply look too bad. Some are old and wrecked, while others look like somebody has been squatting inside for the past 11 months without ever cleaning the place. We’ve seen these plenty of times, and like this artist from Amsterdam, we too felt something needed to be done.

You know what? Maybe he’s not just an artist; possibly he really is a tuner, and perhaps he actually will become one, once enough people hear about his work. According to Beautiful Decay, Max Siedentopf sneaks up at dawn on the streets of Amsterdam and, with a couple of euros, tapes cardboard pieces onto the cars. As you will observe in the photo gallery, courtesy of Siedentropf, he recreates things like bumpers, spoilers and whatnot with quite some precision.

 

The outcome is hilarious, yet it does attract the attention he probably hoped for. All the major components, rear wings, side pods and front wings, help imitate what a fancy custom job would look like. Whether or not he does it to make a point – like “we shouldn’t be that obsessed about tuning our old cars” – we can’t tell. After all, isn’t that what being an artist is all about? Not delivering messages out in the clear, but rather making people ask questions.

Perhaps we’re wrong, and this was just a game the talented craftsman is pulling in his early mornings instead of, say, jogging or oversleeping, although we doubt this project it’s about that. As a matter of fact, we checked out some of his other projects, such as Tragic Trophies, and we feel there’s a strong message Max Siedentopf is trying to spread.