More people are using the community chalkboard

Here are a few more photos of people using the community chalkboard. These kids were most likely from Mesa College. Thanks kids!

First use of community chalkboard

I was parked at a park in Leucadia, and put the chalk holder on the car (it has its own holder, you'll never guess what it's made from). When I got back from rehearsing, there was this message.

Thanks, thoughtful stranger.

Chalk Board Windows

The windows are now chalkboards.

The DeathTrapArtCar now has two of its windows blacked out.  We used Chalk Board Paint so you can send a message to General Motors too! Don't worry, it's legal because the windows are behind the driver's seat where we can see everything with our side-view mirrors.

That makes two perfectly legal places for you to protest the recall that came almost ten years after General Motors first knew about the problem. If you see the DeathTrapArtCar in your neighborhood, and you want to join the protest, here's how:

Your message to GM here:

• Please only write on the windows when it is safe to do so 
• Use the chalk provided to send a message to General Motors 
• Return the chalk when you're done so others can protest too
• Post your photo to social media with these hashtags...

#ShameOnYouGeneralMotors
#GMRecall
#DeathTrapArtCar
#ChevroLame

Thanks! 

A little chalk from the chalk holder and I can send a message to General Motors.

Portal Out of the Mortal Coil

Lizzie Silverman came to the Open Car on May 17th with a plan for the passenger door of the DeathTrapArtCar. Looks pretty good, don't you think?

Open Car 10am-2pm Today 7317 El Cajon Boulevard, La Mesa, CA 91942

Open Car 10am-2pm Today 7317 El Cajon Boulevard, La Mesa, CA 91942

Are you interested in art, protest art, and/or art painted right on a car? Are you an artist with something to say? What if you just want to see what a rolling protest of General Motors looks like?

If you are any of these people -- or anybody else -- you are invited to a free ArtCar Open Car Sat. May 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  The ArtCar Open Car is the best way to learn how and why we're protesting General Motors' late recall of a certain 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.  Partial answer: We're turning a regular Chevy Cobalt into the DeathTrapArtCar!

The ArtCar Open Car will feature the partially transformed car and the artists who are making protest art on it. Some of them might be painting right on the car!  The ArtCar Open Car takes place at On The Edge Art Gallery, 7317 El Cajon Boulevard, La Mesa, CA 91942. -see the map- 

Come take a look at the DeathTrapArtCar and, if you are an artist, claim a panel on which to paint your protest!  The photo below shows who's claimed what, and what's still available. Please join us at On The Edge Art Gallery, on May 17th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We look forward to meeting you!

Here's what's available:

Worst Job Ever: Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet‎ Telesales

Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet: are you sure you want me to sell you this car? Sincerely, Kevin Six

 

This is how the poor shell-shocked woman must feel after calling me today. She called and asked for me.  She read her script fairly well -- especially because there's no answer to the type of questions I was asking.

Her biggest mistake -- or I should say, the biggest mistake with the script -- is:
"We have special pricing because there are a lot of people who want your car, so--"

That's when she was politely but firmly asked if she though I was living under a rock. 

Who is going to want my twice-recalled and so-far not fixed 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt?  Especially one that has been the subject of so many memoranda from General Motors.  Memoranda that General Motors sent to Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet in lieu of recalling my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.

Actually, the memoranda in question were sent to Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet, from General Motors, about a car that I didn't own yet.  And the kind sales staff at Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet chose to sell me the car any way.  They keep trying to get me to sell them the car but none of my concerns are ever addressed.  Namely: who in their right mind would buy or sell a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt!?

AND WHY WOULD I USE THE LAUGHABLE TRADE IN ALLOWANCE TO PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM LIARS WHO ARE GOING TO SELL ME ANOTHER INFERIOR PRODUCT?

They keep trying to sell me some other General Motors product but I want to let them know that:
a: I don't trust anything made by General Motors and sold by Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet;
b: I feel like I was robbed of the $8,000.00 I spent on my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt;
c: I would never let my horrible little 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt (manufactured by General Motors and sold to me by Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet, who had to know of its defects) be owned by anyone, therefore;
d: The only solution is to destroy my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt; and
e: Return the $8,000 to me so I can buy a car that works.

Of course, I am also having a lot of fun turning my 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt into the DeathTrapArtCar.

Man, people who call me on behalf of Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet are having a bad day today.

New Video

Check out the video of Justine Hince, owner of Fontly Yours, as she marks up the DeathTrapArtCar.  And she's not done yet.  She has a few choice words to send to General Motors but this time in olde time script.  Check out the video of Justine branding the DeathTrapArtCar!

ArtCar Open Car Sat. May 17 10a-2p

Painted Panel

Are you interested in art, protest art, and/or art painted right on a car? Are you an artist with something to say? What if you just want to see what a rolling protest of General Motors looks like? 

If you are any of these people -- or anybody else -- you are invited to a free ArtCar Open Car Sat. May 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  The ArtCar Open Car is the best way to learn how and why we're protesting General Motors' late recall of a certain 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.  Partial answer: We're turning a regular Chevy Cobalt into the DeathTrapArtCar!

Lizzie claims her door.

The ArtCar Open Car will feature the partially transformed car and the artists who are making protest art on it. Some of them might be painting right on the car!  The ArtCar Open Car takes place at On The Edge Art Gallery, 7317 El Cajon Boulevard, La Mesa, CA 91942. -see the map- 

Come take a look at the DeathTrapArtCar and, if you are an artist, claim a panel on which to paint your protest!  The photo below shows who's claimed what, and what's still available. Please join us at On The Edge Art Gallery, on May 17th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We look forward to meeting you!

Here's what's available:

Why I’m Protesting GM’s Recall and How

Our founder, Kevin Six recently spoke about why he founded DeathTrapArtCar.com on his own blog, KevinSix.com.  Here's the post:

Why I’m Protesting GM’s Recall and How

Posted on May 3, 2014 by kevinsix

$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.

Next Open Car May 17

Join us at OnTheEdgeArtGallery, Saturday, May 17 from 10 AM to 1 PM. Watch the DeathTrapArtCar being painted, protest General Motors' bad recall practices, and claim one of the remaining panels on the formerly normal 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.

The gallery is located at 7317 El Cajon Blvd. (on the edge of San Diego and La Mesa). For more information, email car@deathtrapartcar.com.

See you there!