$3 part = 303 deaths.
You may know that General Motors is recalling several million cars for problems that they knew about for almost ten years. There are several accidents that have happened as a result of not recalling the cars sooner — or in the case of my car, ever making it. My auto dealer, it turns out, had received dozens of service bulletins from General Motors in lieu of GM recalling my car. This means that they knew of the problem while they were in the showroom selling me my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.
Where the deal went down.
Shame on General Motors for dragging their heels and killing 303 people (13 if you ask General Motors) in Cobalts and other poorly designed GM products. Shame on Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet for selling me this car after reading (or ignoring) so many service bulletins on it. Shame on me for thinking that one recall on a CarFax report meant that the car was now fixed and would give me no more trouble.
People who sell cars with deadly defects.
Lots of shame and blame to go around and all I want is to have my car replaced by the charlatans who sold it to me and the crooks who made it. No such luck. They want to fix my car but I think that the public should be warned about my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, which, incidentally, is painted Caution Tape Yellow. So warned they shall be!
Cute Art Car.
I have decided to make my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt into the DeathTrapArtCar. Art cars are cars (often VW Beetles) that are painted in all sorts of cool ways by artists. My art car will be a rolling protest to General Motors for making a lemon (and painting it yellow, who does that?), to Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet (for selling me a car that they knew was a rotten lemon) and a warning to everyone near the car that it just might turn itself (and its airbags) off and become a 65-mile-per-hour, gas-filled projectile. At any time!
Death Isn’t Pretty: 303 bloody fingerprints represent the recall dead.
I will have artists paint messages of protest to GM and warnings to the general public on my car and post the results on a website and YouTube channel I created for the occasion. The goal now is to shame, chide and otherwise embarrass General Motors and Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet who, as corporations are people and capable of all emotion.
They need to be made to look as silly as I feel driving my Accident-waiting-to-happen. And I want the car to be all painted before my recall appointment at Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet — which is whenever they get the part. And I need artists to help me make a statement. If you are an artist, or even a concerned citizen who can wield a paintbrush, felt marker or spray can, I need you! I am showing the car at an impromptu Open Car event at a local art gallery on May 17th.
Protest Website.
Your art will appear on my 2007 Chevy Cobalt, at DeathTrapArtCar.com, and wherever I go in the car. I would like to go to fairs, events and parades in the car and will entertain offers from museums… I will also send press releases with pictures. The press will cover the car that is covered in art and then GM will… think of their customers as human (like corporations, with the full range of emotion and capacity for pain).
Here is the information:
What: Open Car call for artists to create protest art on my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, which is now the DeathTrapArtCar. The Open Car is an opportunity for the curious to see the car, to discuss what messages to paint on the car, and for artists to claim a panel on it.
When: the Open Car is Saturday, May 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Where: at OnTheEdgeArtGallery, 7317 El Cajon Blvd. La Mesa, CA 91942
Questions? Contact Kevin Six, frustrated 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt owner and manager of the DeathTrapArtCar Gallery, at car@deathtrapartcar.com.
Why: Car companies have a responsibility to not kill the public because their cars don’t work. They also need to tell us our cars don’t work when they discover that our cars don’t work. Not nine years later. They can buy silence for only so long. Art is eternal. Art is powerful. Art will bring General Motors to their knees! Maybe.
I welcome your thoughts, ideas and suggestions. Thank you.
KevinSix.com 