The Obama Car is for sale, but owner says she can’t get a buyer
March 9, 2009 at 12:03 pm by Wayne Garcia
Jennifer Stone-Anderson called Friday in a near panic. For those who don’t recall, she is the Tampa Bay artist who covered her 2004 Saturn Ion with her own art depicting Barack Obama, his agenda and hope. She’s behind in her car payments and is trying to sell the Obama Car, which I wrote about back in October:
The south St. Petersburg resident showed off her rolling campaign ad in our parking lot today, pointing out the giant globe that’s really a lit-fuse bomb; Arlington National Cemetery (”where our soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried”); a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness; and the admonition to recycle (curbside or otherwise) in St. Pete but not to “recycle Bush-McCain.”
Stone-Anderson said she painted the white Ion with acrylics she had leftover at home, on and off, weather permitting, for two months.
But her attempts to sell the Obama Car aren’t meeting with much success. She put it up for auction on eBay and got only one bid. For 99 cents. It cost her $60 to list it, she says.
The problem? She isn’t really selling a car, in her way of seeing it. She’s selling her artistic creation on the car.
“People are looking at the car, and I’m looking at the art,” says Stone-Anderson.
She won’t name her price but asked interested buyers to contact her (ASAP!) at twentyfivecats@yahoo.com.
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