Spotted in Los Angeles: The Rooster/Chicken Car
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Is this not the most amazing vehicle you’ve ever seen?
I was driving down a street in Santa Monica after an absurdly long time spent at Staples surrounded by school supply buying children and their horribly depressed parents and I looked over to my left to see the rooster car.
It’s a good thing the road was pretty desolate because I slowed down, stopped and just stared for a good minute. I began to drive again, but couldn’t let the awesomeness of seeing a yellow car with a rooster head and tail sticking out just go by so I put my car in reverse, parked and took this photo.
It was glorious.
The rooster car truly made my day.
As soon as I got home I decided to do some research to see if I could find the origins of this creature-car, but wasn’t able to find much except a blog post at Laughing Squid and Nigel Stewart’s blog. Comments in both posts reveal the possible origins of the car, allegedly created by a man named Steven Cantin, and brought to California in 1997 to be used in a movie that apparently was never made. It is now owned by American race car driver and Santa Monica resident Tommy Kendall.
Steven Cantin it seems was trying to get in touch with Tommy, but there’s no internet evidence to suggest that the two ever did speak.
I hope this isn’t the last I’ve seen of this beautiful piece of machinery – I’m going to dream I’m riding in it tonight.
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Hello everyone, I was simply checking out this weblog and I actually admire the foundation of the article, great job.
Is there any way i can talk you out of a JPEG of this car? I want to make a shirt of mine for a friend that lives in Santa Monica. She would love it
this chicken car was just on storage wars, driven by barry weiss
There’s a nice one in OKC too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27912771@N06/3359024642
This chicken car was built by a guy on Hwy 49 in Gulfport, Mississippi, where it was parked next to a fried chicken restaurant through the late 70′s and 80′s. It vanished after a hurricane, but I saw it several months ago in a Target TV commercial – it looks like it’s been repainted. Here’s some more pic’s of it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr38/4488320373/
very cool!
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i have a picture of my sonic the chicken car, as we were using it for an advertisement gimmick for an elvis impersonator in 1992, after which i drove the car to columbus ohio for the company i was working for at the time. it was owned at that time by a gentleman named steve canton, who was a promoter for various venues.