{"id":152,"date":"2014-01-31T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leithcars.com\/blogs\/596\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-01-31T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:49:31","slug":"creativity-patience-ford-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Outcome When You Combine Creativity, Patience, and Ford?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BestInClass\"This week’s Best in Class looks to Leith Ford, where Monday’s blog served a dual purpose: reminded (some of) us of the big-haired, acid-washed-jean-wearing, and neon-colored 1980s via a <\/span>transformed<\/em> car; it also made us weep in envy that we didn’t own a Ford F150 RaptorTRAX of our own when the snow fell. It also seems appropriate to select this particular blog post because it presents “concepts,” which the 2014 Detroit Auto Show had many of just a few weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

While these vehicles are not for sale, you can find a full inventory of great vehicles down at Leith Ford in Wendell. In the meantime, enjoy the post!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a> Photo: Hetain Patel\n

Show of hands: Who feels like getting the week started off on an awesome note? We see a lot of you have responded with the affirmative hand-in-air gesture, especially you, <\/span>Hetain Patel<\/a> and <\/span>Ken Block<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who remembers the original Transformers movie, everyone\u2019s favorite marketing ploy from the eighties? Maybe you grew up with it, maybe you put up with letting your kids watch it for the umpteenth time, or maybe you didn\u2019t know about Transformers until the Michael Bay movies were released. If you fall into that last category, shame on you. You\u2019re shunned from this blog.<\/p>\n

Just kidding.<\/span><\/p>\n

(But c\u2019mon, man).<\/p>\n

Regardless, the Transformers franchise has left an indelible imprint on many minds, and perhaps they made more of an impression on artist Hetain Patel than others. Patel\u2019s work is often performance-based and is heavily concept-oriented. His pieces are \u201cabout being.\u201d The piece that got our attention is Patel\u2019s first sculpture, in which he took his first car, a 1988 Ford Fiesta, and remade it into the image of a squatting humanoid.<\/span><\/p>\n