Boxer Jock, Button King, and the beginnings of the Houston Art Car Parade

By RK Motors - Apr 13, 2018

Jackie Harris’ “Fruitmobile.” Photo by Harrod Blank. All photos courtesy Houston Art Car Parade.

This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Houston Art Car Parade, the largest art car parade in the world, as it bills itself. The event that has attracted art car aficionados from around the country since its beginning, as we see from this batch of photos from the first two parades in 1988 and 1989 that the organizers of the parade uploaded to their site. As with any other art, we’ll let the cars speak for themselves. First up, the cars from 1988:

“101 Howdies.” Photo by Tom LaFaver.

Artist: Willard Watson The Texas Kid.

Artist: Darrell the Clown.

Jackie Harris’s “Fruitmobile.”

Artists: Jeff Delude and Joanna Brigham.

Jackie Harris’s “Local Charm Hearse.”

 

See more photos from 1988 here.

 

And now the cars from 1989:

Photo by Tom LaFaver.

The Art Guys’s “Exxon Valdeath.”

Jackie Harris’s “Fruitmobile.”

Dalton Stevens’s “The Button King.” Photo by Tom LaFaver.

Serabutu’s “Montrose Monorail.”

 

See more photos from 1989 here

 

SOURCE: HEMMINGS

AUTHOR: Daniel Strohl