(Stefano Giovannini)
Brooklyn artist Yarrow Mazzetti is selling $100,000 space-age vehicles using tanks, golf carts and, yes, some car parts.
“I’m into gadgets,” explained Mazzetti, 36, who said the parts are simply a vehicle to showcase his high-octane artistic vision.
He has cranked out a six-ton, bright orange Nemo-inspired “fish tank.” “The base of the vehicle is a 15-passenger Ford van that my friend left at my house for too long,” he said.
He has made 15 glowing, ladybug-themed golf carts (top right) and and an owl-shaped Humvee. Other creations include an homage to a “Star Wars” landspeeder (above left), made from the motor and transmission of a Buick Roadster. It’s covered with steel plates and metal tubing. His personal steel-plated “Batlimo” (right) — which he parks on the streets of Williamsburg — is a nod to the comic book Caped Crusader.
“I’ve gotten stopped by cops a few times here. They’ll wave me to the side of the road, but basically they just want to take pictures,” he said.
People commission vehicles and then Mazzetti spends time with his clients, sometimes accompanying them on family vacations to Mexico or ski trips to Vail, to get a feel for what they fancy.
“I figure out how he wants to entertain when he’s driving around,” explained Mazzetti, whose fascination with cars began in his high school metal shop in Washington state.