{"id":86019,"date":"2026-08-31T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86019"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:49:36","slug":"burning-man-2026-kicks-off-with-its-freakiest-collection-yet-of-mutant-vehicles-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/burning-man-2026-kicks-off-with-its-freakiest-collection-yet-of-mutant-vehicles-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man 2026 Kicks Off \u2014 With Its Freakiest Collection Yet Of \u2018Mutant\u2019 Vehicles On Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/el-pulpo-magnifico-duane-flatmo-138601400_a8f445.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"El Pulpo Magnifico art car shooting flames at Burning Man 2022.\" width=\"359\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want a low-key, peaceful ride through Nevada\u2019s Black Rock Desert,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/burning-man\/\">Burning Man festival\u00a0<\/a>is not the place to get it.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t take comfort in the fact the annual gathering\u2019s outrageously styled art-cars must be registered with Burning Man\u2019s own DMV. \u201cIt stands for Department of\u00a0<em>Mutant\u00a0<\/em>Vehicles,\u201d David Best, a Burning Man veteran whose most iconic art car resembles a rocket, straight out of the 1950s, drily told The Post.\u00a0Creating the inventive \u201cmutant\u201d rides \u2014 typically modified automobile chassis reassembled to look like chrome animals, desert galleons, dragons or spaceships \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/04\/burning-man-escapee-made-dukes-of-hazzard-style-car-jump-to-exit\/\">does not come cheap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): If you want a low-key, peaceful ride through Nevada\u2019s Black Rock Desert,\u00a0Burning Man festival\u00a0is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86020,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86019\/revisions\/86020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}