This Saturday morning turned out to be a banner day for Berkeley cars. I was riding with Jim Dandy and Stache on the garage sale hunt, taking us down side streets and parts of Berkeley that I normally wouldn’t see.

All I can think of with this one is an SUV in a clown suit. Chalk that one up in the “Only in Berkeley” column.

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This was another good catch by Jim Dandy. The side is a space theme with the comets and galaxy. The trunk breaks from the theme with the trunk on fire and mushrooms on the top (see more).

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Approaching this Honda, we didn’t notice anything uncommon. However, as we neared, Beaudry realized that this car was anything but ordinary. It is actually covered in artificial turf. I thought a picture of one of us on top of it with a putter would be funny, but alas Stache doesn’t carry a putter in his car.

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Volgraf knew about this van’s permanant parking space next to People’s Park, so we rolled up for this drive by shot.

The cyclop sun on the hood of this one kind of freaks me out.

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Apparently I had been driving by this one rather frequently to and from campus. I think it belongs to a band or something based on the names listed on the back (not pictured). The graffiti is among the most “wall like” that I’ve seen.

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Melissa and I happened upon this one walking over to the Albany Waterfront Park, which has some strange art in its own right. The decoration here is rather mundane, but it’s not often that a Volkswagen is customized like this.

This was the first “Berkeley Car” that I had my camera available for. Jim Dandy and I were at a garage sale across the street (you can see it in the background there), and since I probably wasn’t going to be in this area ever again, I decided I had to grab a shot of this beauty. Incidently, I bought a copy of Mysterys of Pittsburgh at the garage sale for 50 cents, so it was a solid score all around. While it’s basic theme is just hippy-graffiti, it’s one of my favorites.