Oct 8 2009More Sprinkles!: Custom $25K Cupcake Cars
These are three examples of custom cupcake cars that Neimen Marcus is selling for Christmas this year. Each cake will set you back $25K, but makes the perfect gift for the Lollypop Guild member on your list who has everything. Plus, they come with matching hats!
Put on your matching hat, slip under the muffin top of your Cupcake Car, and let the world figure itself out for awhile. Get (or give) the sheer, joyful chaos of a gift that is mind-blowing, triple-dog-dare, double-infinity forever cool. Make the kids or grandkids literally squeal with joy. Bring it to work and buzz the breakroom. Crash parades! Putter about the 'hood. Ever had a crowd of kids chasing after you just for the crazy gleeful heck of it? (No worries, the top speed is a comfy-safe 7 mph.) What's it made of? A 24-volt electric motor, a heavy-duty battery, sheet metal, wire, fabric, wood...and mad genius. Launched at Burning Man as a cooperative art car project, the Cupcake Car sprang from the fevered mind of Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace and her less-rules-more-laughs posse of artists and techno geeks. Yours will be tricked out with your favorite topping, so start thinking flavors.
Yeah, if I ever see a cupcake driving down the sidewalk I'm swearing off drugs forever. Except alcohol. Which, fun fact: I'm petitioning to be included in the food pyramid. STOP FIGHTING IT, FDA!
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Reader Comments
1. Jaycob - October 8, 2009 10:00 AM
woah
2. Timbo - October 8, 2009 10:02 AM
"Ever had a crowd of kids chasing after you just for the crazy gleeful heck of it?"
Perverts...
3. Scruff Mcgruff - October 8, 2009 10:14 AM
First!!, I'm so awsome... LSD what does my semen taste like?
4. Ham Bone - October 8, 2009 10:15 AM
This guy that gave me a lift one time had a van that looked like that. He was really nice but his candy and kool-aid tasted kinda weird and made me sleepy
5. Ste - October 8, 2009 10:19 AM
Never in my wildest drug-induced dreams...!
0/10
Scruff, you're kinda starting to bug me.
6. LSDiesel - October 8, 2009 10:27 AM
@3, very good I used it on my pancakes send more please. I'll pay!
7. LSDiesel - October 8, 2009 10:30 AM
@3, Don't you remember? You got on your knees and told me to spit it into your mouth. You said that it was too salty and that you were gonna lay off the meat for a while.
I would buy a cupcake car and drive it through a...a....damn....a place where fat people live.
8. Geekolojew - October 8, 2009 10:37 AM
Must See!!!
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9. Closet Nerd - October 8, 2009 10:37 AM
I'd drive this in the drive thru for Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme.
Lets hot box/fish bowl it, and get baked in the cupcake!!!!
Whose coming with me?
Whooooose coming with me maaaaaaan?
10. Pat - October 8, 2009 10:45 AM
This looks like something that would have been at one of Billy Madison's graduation parties.
11. zips - October 8, 2009 11:15 AM
Some straight laced suit in Neiman's purchasing dept clearly went to Burning Man for the first time, took a lot of mushrooms and acid then decided this was the ideal thing for them to start selling. Because when I think Neiman's Xmas catalog, I think huge environmentally friendly cupcake acrs with matching hats. Someone needs to check his desk for the crack pipe too.
12. Calabasa209 - October 8, 2009 12:16 PM
i believe this will get you a firm ass kicking where i come from....
@9 haha thats the first thing i thought of too (smoking not donuts)
13. naas - October 8, 2009 12:52 PM
@9 hooooot boooooooooox
14. Jaded Icon - October 8, 2009 1:20 PM
Besides a parade, I really don't see any benefit to owning something like this.
15. Lisa Visconti - October 8, 2009 1:25 PM
This... is effin... ridiculous.
16. Closet Nerd - October 8, 2009 2:21 PM
Religion is the same thing as Mythology
17. punch yourself - October 8, 2009 3:37 PM
So incredibly NOT in the spirit of Burninating Man.
18. BreadHarrity - October 8, 2009 4:41 PM
Aaah, yes! For the wealthy azzhats that have nothing better to do with their money than buy a $25K cupcake car, other than taking a dump on $25K, setting it on fire and throwing it at their nearest homeless person.
19. OmniSpyder - October 8, 2009 5:59 PM
Pfft... 25k for that...
I have seen way cooler stuff at burning man that would cost a lot less to make.
20. RK - October 8, 2009 7:13 PM
an "eat me" bumper sticker would make this ride complete.
21. ciao - October 8, 2009 9:43 PM
that be a fun thing to do on Halloween day....drive around the block as a sweet treat....that shoots out silly string at all the dressed folks >:D
22. holidays to Egypt - October 9, 2009 3:31 AM
This guy that gave me a lift one time had a van that looked like that.
23. tenerife holidays - October 12, 2009 3:01 AM
Hi..
He was really nice but his candy and kool-aid tasted kinda weird and made me sleepy.