Bizarre Glenfiddich sculpture to be scrapped

“Ford Escort with lamp post through bonnet”, a surreal artwork in the car park of the Glenfiddich distillery is destined for the scrap heap after eight years.

The handiwork of Spanish artist and “spatial sculptor” Luis Bisbe and using a Ford Escort once belonging to the distillery’s art programme co-ordinator Andy Fairgrieve, “car skewered by post” has been sitting in the car park since 2007 but has fallen victim to plans to resurface the area.

Talking to Deadline News, Fairgrieve said he was sorry to see the piece go: ““Unfortunately, the car and lamp post will have to be dismantled so that the car park can be resurfaced.

“There are no definite plans yet when this will happen, but visitors to our distillery will still be able to see the piece if they come this summer – it will be its final hurrah.”

The 25-foot tall lamp does not actually work, when all the other lights are illuminated the car’s headlights come on instead – although the car is quite incapable of anything else having suffered the engine equivalent of a lobotomy to fit the pole through it.

Some people on social media have tried to declare it a fake, while some wags (rather more imaginatively) have speculated that either a young lamp post “grew” through the car or that lazy workmen installing new lamp posts simply couldn’t be bothered to move the car.

Disappointed installation art lovers will still be able to enjoy other Bisbe works around the distillery once “Ford Escort impaled on pole” has gone however.

Other “playful” pieces include a bicycle built into a railing and a whisky cask with a broom through the middle of it.