Get Autoblog in your Google feed 00 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 01 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 04 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 05 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 06 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 07 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 10 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 12 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 13 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 14 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 16 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 17 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 18 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 19 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 20 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 21 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 22 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 23 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 24 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 25 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 26 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 27 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 28 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 29 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 30 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 31 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 33 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 36 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 37 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 38 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 39 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 40 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 41 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 42 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 43 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 44 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 45 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 47 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 48 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 49 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 50 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 51 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 52 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin 54 – 1996 Ford F-150 in California wrecking yard – Photo by Murilee Martin I’ve documented quite a few doomed art cars, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, as I’ve prowled junkyards for interesting bits of automotive history . First I captured the Groovalicious Purple Princess of Peace Ford Taurus wagon, and since that time I’ve photographed a well-known ’69 Mustang , a Toyota LiteAce with hundreds of hours of glue-gun work , two different Corolla wagon art cars , a mozaicized Volvo 740 Turbo wagon , and a Van Gogh-homage Volvo 240 sedan , among others. Today’s Junkyard Gem falls into that category: an ordinary 1995 Ford F-150 work truck turned into a mobile graffiti wall.
Since the glass and lights didn’t get spray-bombed, we can assume that the artists themselves used this truck to get around; if it had been a hapless abandoned street truck, everything would have been covered in paint. Inside, I found unpaid Bay Area parking tickets and NO PARKING notices, so I think that this truck finally got towed away due to back fines.
I know next to nothing about graffiti culture, other than what I saw in Wild Style Pezo , of San Francisco.
Buer , Jade BTM , Arte 1810 , Bunk News , and the band Get Greens also show up in the many tags and stickers found all over this truck.
It started life as a work truck, as we can see from this “call before you dig” sticker on the dash.
I think this strawberry-scented Car-Freshner Little Tree lived in this Ford for decades, since it’s an older style. I see plenty of these trees in junkyard vehicles .
The passenger-side vent window has a field-expedient opaque repair.
The typical fate of a tow-away pickup covered with cop-magnet murals at the car auctions tends to be a grim one, and so this truck never had much chance of avoiding the crusher.
Part of our past. Part of our future. And part of the fabric of Texas (and San Francisco).
