I bought the little red jellybean from Emily Burke for $350 in the summer of 2005, with a serious oil leak. Pete snapped this photo of me changing the oil pan gasket while Mia provides documentation support. Now I only need to add one quart per tank of gas. The upside is that I never have to change the oil... it's always new!

here is the earliest photo i have of the whole car, in yosemite where it brought stefan and i to climb half dome. notice the french language magnets from onn's lab at stanford. those get moved to the hood later on...

Erica donated this prized vintage bowling trophy. That creep can roll, man!

You mark that frame an 8, and you're entering a world of pain.

Obviously you're not a golfer.

my french magnet collection

they slowly disappear

nomade mecanique

anthia goes to town on the dashboard

the final metamorphosising touches

the following project was mike nieto's vision. we started off by painting the blue band at bethany's place in atascadero. can you find an unconscious mike in this photo? *

Gyotaku: the Japanese art of painting and pressing a dead fish and then passing it off as refined.

Buster helped out with his brawn

And Pinky provided the brains of the outfit.

Mike and I bought these fish in a market in Moss Landing. I traveled with them for three days and nights (passing them from fridge to fridge in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Alameda and finally Oakland) before getting a chance to finish the project in front of Pete's house.

local vehicle inspectors get assistance from their fish-sniffing dog. *

the next generation of magnet arrangement, augmented by nevada winter highway dirt.