Seen in West Seattle: “The Phone Car”

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Wendy Hughes-Jelen of High Point sent that photo along with a link to her blog post about spotting that car at Hans VW on 35th. We traced the number to the website for Datel Communications — in Avon, MA — then called to ask what it was doing here. A very polite and patient lady who probably has to answer that question dozens of times a day explained that it’s now a fulltime “art car” touring the country and even has its own website, thephonecar.com (where you can also see its creator pictured with his extensive telephone collection). Subsequent searching reveals it was at the Fremont street festival last weekend and mentioned in a Big Blog post before a Seward Park stop last week.

11 Replies to "Seen in West Seattle: "The Phone Car""

  • GenHillOne June 26, 2008 (9:36 am)

    There were a bunch of “art cars” in Fremont…here it is in action –

    http://www.king5.com/video/?z=y&nvid=256217

  • OP June 26, 2008 (9:53 am)

    That’ll be a ticket come next Tuesday.

  • cjboffoli June 26, 2008 (10:04 am)

    I’m waiting for the iPhone car. Of course the risk is that the day after you see it they come out with another (better, faster, smaller( iPhone car.

  • Vanessa Carr June 26, 2008 (10:39 am)

    “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW ?”

  • WSB June 26, 2008 (10:45 am)

    Thanks for the clip, GHO. Fremont always has a whole display of art cars … we didn’t get to go this year, too much going on back here in West Seattle. P.S. for anyone who wants to see this in person, we drove by Hans VW about half an hour ago, 10:15-ish, and it was still out front.

  • Bob Loblaw June 26, 2008 (2:38 pm)

    “Car Phone”

  • WendyHJ June 26, 2008 (3:00 pm)

    Hahaha love the comments, you guys are so funny!

  • Eddie June 26, 2008 (7:40 pm)

    Haven’t seen the new Get Smart movie yet, but I wonder if Max has his Shoe-phone

  • miws June 26, 2008 (10:02 pm)

    “Hang up and drive!”

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    Mike

  • austin June 26, 2008 (10:58 pm)

    That thing would be hard to drive! Steering wheel on the right and a tiiiny windshield!

  • garybert June 27, 2008 (8:52 am)

    Who will answer it when it rings at 3am???

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