Art Dump Truck (Holy Cow!)

[Oldmopars]

I do wonder if those tricked out Pakistani trucks are being used for transport of goods, or just for show. If they are still used, that is great. I think they are ugly, but more power to them. 

[Chariots of Fire]

? YECH!   ?

[Brian Austin]

Oldmopars, they appear to be honest working trucks.

For historical and cultural context regarding Pakistani trucks:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1278386

"...In the early 1970s a most interesting phenomenon galvanised the genre of truck art.

Till the late 1960s, trucks were mostly being painted with spiritual and exotic images on the rear of the vehicles.

From the early 1970s, images and calligraphy began to completely engulf the whole body of the vehicle.

This was prompted by the manner in which billboards and hoardings of Pakistani films became louder and more kaleidoscopic in appearance.

In turn, those painting such billboards were inspired by the ‘psychedelic art’ and Pop Art which had begun to mushroom in the west from the late 1960s onward.

So the painters of truck art, mostly stationed in workshops and cheap roadside eateries along Pakistan’s highways, began to incorporate the complex and loud wall-to-wall style adopted by the billboard painters and fused it with the already established flair of the truck art genre."

 

One truck painter profiled in the story cheerfully did his truck artwork solely for the cost of his paints and a meal or two.

 

So these trucks, along with the Japanese ones are fascinating to me as mirrors to their respective cultures.

[iamsuperdan]