I've been writing this piece about the car art of the developing world, you know like those taxi's and buses that are painted all crazy colors and have drivers with very few teeth that somehow in that gaping cave of a mouth can somehow smile with more conviction than I can?
Im specifically writing about the Tap Taps of Haiti and the Jeepney's of the Philippines. Supposedly the Jeepneys were left over army jeeps from back in the days of our occupation (and also incidently where we developed concentration camps, [we called them re-concentration camps]) So supposedly, the people of he Philippines have been fixing up and tricking out these trucks ever since!
If you have any pics of anything like this, lemme know and maybe I can get you into the mag!
until then check out this jeep created by Alfredo Aquilizan:
Im specifically writing about the Tap Taps of Haiti and the Jeepney's of the Philippines. Supposedly the Jeepneys were left over army jeeps from back in the days of our occupation (and also incidently where we developed concentration camps, [we called them re-concentration camps]) So supposedly, the people of he Philippines have been fixing up and tricking out these trucks ever since!
If you have any pics of anything like this, lemme know and maybe I can get you into the mag!
until then check out this jeep created by Alfredo Aquilizan:
abevigoda:
I so want to do a photo essay of all the pre-embargo American cars in Cuba.