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When painting something like a car, is there a masterplan or do you just go off the top of your head? I got tons of positive response from the community, especially from kids that would recognize my art and would want to grab a photo or two.Īside from the Cortex Cruiser, what’s your no-holds-barred, wildest imagination dream surf vehicle?ĭefinitely a flying saucer with some board racks, easy.

I had the car for a month or so during the shooting and planning process and I’d have to take it around the block a few times every few days. I’m sure you probably get all kinds of looks and thumbs-up when cruising–any interesting interactions and/or comments on the ride that stick out?Īh that’s the best part of it. That said, once I’m done I like to learn from the piece that was just completed and move on to the next. These days I’ve learned to enjoy the process much more. Chances are those street pieces would get buffed and covered up with white paint or someone else’s work, so maybe I’m conditioned to let pieces go after they’re finished. I think this stems from doing art in the streets growing up. Some lucky soul is going to win the Cortex Cruiser, will it be hard to say goodbye? It’s almost like being struck by lighting when it comes for you, you can harness this energy if you’re open to it or you can let it slip away. It may be foggy and unclear but the unknown outcome at the other side is always exciting. There’s no rhyme, reason or direction to it, it’s just sort of sporadic and reckless. The idea around the car is that it’s a brain undergoing a influx of inspiration.

The Cortex Cruiser is a vessel, much like the mind and brain.

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The tinted, taller windows reminded me of a hearse or limo, which was perfect for the direction. I’ve always felt these cars have tons of personality. In regards to the make and year, this was a super specific request. My friends at Vissla helped sort the car and from what I hear the previous owner was a die-hard fan of Shakespeare. Was it hard for the previous owner to give it up? How did you come to possess that 1982 Mercedes 240d? That car is kind of a dream machine even pre-flare. The Cortex Cruiser can be yours by clicking here. SURFER recently caught up with Woodside to talk about the Cortex Cruiser, which he and our friends at Vissla are giving away. After scoring a 1982 Mercedes Benz 240d, Woodside blasted the luxury sedan with his artistic stylings and, like a cherry on top, slapped some surf racks on its roof. Just when you thought the freewheeling days of surfers’ wild-style cars were dead, white-washed by neutrally monotone Sprinter vans running into the six figures, an artist like Jason Woodside comes along and throws some color back on the scene. You probably remember this scene from Severson’s 1970 film, “Pacific Vibrations”.

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He then packed the bus full of shortboard revolutionaries and women and headed up California’s coast in pursuit of fun waves and good times. In the late ’60s, SURFER’s resident artist, Rick Griffin, painted psychedelic eyeballs getting barreled in cosmic lineups all over a beat-to-hell school bus. There’s a picture of this car in SURFER’s very first issue with a couple of D-finned logs popping out of its back window. The car’s name, “Sunset Special”, was tagged in one of his whimsical fonts across its doors. In the late ’50s, SURFER founder, John Severson, painted flower petals and waves all over his North Shore jalopy. SURFER Magazine has always been fond of these weird whips, especially ones with added flare. Eventually, any rust bucket with wheels that could get a surfer and their blade to some waves was used, abused and customized to better fit a surfy existence. Bondo-spotted Volkswagen buses became the standard issue of the ’60s. In the ’50s, termite-infested woodies provided surfers both room and board-and room for their boards-on the cheap. Throughout the decades, there’s been an inextricable relationship between surfers and eccentric cars.