The Irreducible

This lovely art car was built by our campmates Bill Bonner and Nancy Panitch expressly for Burning Man. They brought it to the playa several years, but unfortunately Bill has died and Nancy is unable to come back to Burning Man. I have inherited the vehicle and pledged to bring it back to the Playa.

The vehicle suggests to many the skeleton of some ancient graceful creature. Creationists, in their misguided opposition to evolution, think that many organisms are "irreducibly complex," which means they could not have evolved step by step. The Irreducible is an example of something that was truly intelligently designed.

Here it is at night.

Here it is by day, after a modification to cover the rear wheels

The vehicle comes on a 12' long car carrier, which has been modified with the addition of a wooden deck to support the narrower vehicle. The vehicle itself has an internal cart about 7' long with 5' wooden structures fore and aft. On the trailer it sticks forward and back about 3'.

Upgrade and redesign notes

In 2009, the vehicle received upgrades to lighting and electrical to operate them of batteries rather than a generator.

However, there was division among DMV Hotties over the vehicle's qualifications during the day, with some wishing to deny a licence and others not. While undeniably extensively mutated (and called by some the best golf-cart mutant vehicle they have seen) the mutation is designed with a skeletal aesthetic.

Because of this design, some elements of the underlying vehicle are difficult to conceal. The vehicle is not visible from many angles, but is more visible viewed directly from the side. We understand that DMV principles desire hiding all of the underlying vehicle, but we also know it is not desired to compromise the aesthetic of vehicles that are clearly highly mutated and not representative of the vehicle. We know that as we drive it, the vehicle is regularly greeted by shouts that it is one of the best cars out there.

To this end, we seek advice on modifications to make more people happy.

In the above fix, we have more coverings for the wheels. The black original roof supports are covered with painted wood to change their shape and hide them.

In a more invovled change, the roof is replaced with an oval disk to match the other disks of the vehicle (shown poorly in this photoshop representation.) The lighting and statue of the man may be restored to the new roof, or removed from it. As the roof forms the structual bind between the (already mutated) windshield and the rear frame, this will require some care.

In a simpler version of this change, the roof is wrapped in a white cloth designed to hide all features of the original from above. This is much simpler and hides the original vehicle component.

The passenger area with seats and steering wheel is much harder to change but we are open to suggestions.