Car Hunt is the now legendary event organized in 1995 where a group of our friends took an Oldsmobile station wagon and added steel re-enforcements, setup a system where they could drive it via remote control and then “hunted” it down in a Nevada desert using an assortment of guns while riding in chase vehicles.
Here’s a great gallery of Car Hunt photos by Nicole Rosenthal.
Check out Chuck Cirino excellent “Car Hunt” video on Weird America.
Michael Dougan wrote about Car Hunt in the San Francisco Examiner:
“Playful gathering pumps hot lead in rural Nevada”
Car Hunt was organized by John Law, Robert Burke and People Hater, along with some of the people from the The Drive-By Shooting Range at Burning Man.
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I’ve had the video since 96. I show it to my high school students, as an example of contemporary art/prank events, so they can see that life isn’t so dull after all.
Goddammit, I miss everything cool!! Well, not everything but Goddammit I want to ridearound at breakneck speeds shooting at another car and not go to jail again.
This is why America is incapable of competing in a global economy. Non-US workers WORK an average of 68 hours a week. We drive around and shoot cars. Brilliant.
The above event looks super sweet! While Dr. Fartzalott (LOL) has a bit of a point about Americans clowning around, others would argue that recreational activities like shooting the crap out of a dying remote controlled auto are the kinds of modern John Wayne meets Revenge of the Nerds activities that prove America is still both innovative and wild. It is this sort of organized mayhem that continues to make America the envy of nations, (though these nations would prefer not to admit it).