This painted car hood, lying among the auto garages (some say ‘chop shops of dubious ownership’) on Pacific Street in Crown Heights, reminded us of a couple other projects challenging traditional attitudes towards cars. (Anyone seen the rest of this car driving around?)

Like a good pair of jeans, the Fiat Scratch only gets better with age. It’s a prototype car coated with multiple layers of contrasting paint, so owners needn’t fear the scratch and can start attacking it with sharp objects. If you’re boring, just wait for it to happen naturally.

Even cooler, is Jonathan Schipper’s slow motion car crash, “The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle.” No movement is visible as the two are cars are crashed into one another over the course of an entire month. You’ll have to wait for the full sized piece.