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VW Bus Ball is not quite the safest way to travel
Rolling down the street in an old VW Minibus would be sweet. Rolling down the street in this modified VW Bus Ball would be much, much more dangerous. Mostly because it doesn't have wheels and you would be physically rolling down the street. But hey, it looks pretty cool.
Built out of a real Minibus by artist Corky Corker, I don't think anyone will be traveling anywhere very far in this, but it's certainly a far out looking… thing. Heck, if you put some wheels on the bottom of it it would be a pretty fun one-seater, but I'm pretty sure there's no room for an engine, so you'd only be able to travel downhill. A boy can dream, can't he?
Check out one more pic after the jump.
By zakjens at 2:23 PM ON 02/25/07
"Bus Ball" is actually the work of sculptor Lars Erik Fisk. Unfortunately, the piece was recently wrongly credited to Billy F. Gibbons on http://blog.coker.com/, the blog of Corky Coker. Since Corky's posting, many other blogs have linked to the story about Fisk's Bus Ball, but have similarly misinformed readers about the actual artist. (You have even gone so far as now wrongly crediting Corky Coker for the sculpture!) While many people have tried to post comments on Corky's blog to correct the information and fairly credit Lars Erik Fisk, the efforts have been repeatedly and not-so-mysteriously deleted. I'm not sure why the Corky Coker blog is so adamant about wrongly attributing "Bus Ball" to Billy F. Gibbons, but it would be nice if the rest of the blogs interested in the story could make an effort inform people of the truth.
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