Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Mercedes Pens Art Car

Type: Attraction

Topic(s): Arts

Tags: Art+Car Mercedes+Pens The Pen Guy" Recycled Pens PVC+instrument Funny Humor


Have any dead pens lying around? Bring them by to add to the 5000+ writing implements on this 1981 300 SD Mercedes Pens neé Benz.

Web site: http://pen-guy.blogspot.com/

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About the Maker(s)

Costas Schuler
The Mercedes Pens is an 1981 300SD Mercedes covered in over 10,000 pens. I was inspired by a book on “Art Cars” and in June of 2005 I had the idea to glue PENS on my car early one morning. So far I have had opportunities to speak in schools about what I do and inspire others to follow their dreams, and appear at various events where kids ages 1-120 years old get to glue pens on my car. In the four years I have been driving this car around I have been able to make a lot of people smile—and that is the best part of why I do this. If you have a chance come by and experience this for your self, and if you happen to have any “dead” pens laying around, bring them and you can glue these on the car also.
http://pen-guy.blogspot.com/