Neidich’s words hit home. Writers and automotive reviewers mostly socialize in magazine offices and test tracks. It has indeed been a lonely time. Our first two stops weren’t too promising, as we spotted the little yellow Drive-By Art signs at the designated addresses, but not anything we could easily recognize as art. Perhaps that was the art, the wondering. Is a sweatshirt slung over a chain-link fence art? Is half an Arby’s sandwich sign leaning against a warehouse art? It might be, but not the art we were looking for. Things got more obviously artistic when we got to the combined works of Kulapat Yantrasast and Kimberly Brooks on a residential street in Venice. Yantrasast’s piece was a car wash offered for free to artists and heathcare workers. While they waited, car owners could look out their windows at a delicate, gold-leafed painting by Brooks. The two did not originally plan to join forces, Brooks told me, but her landlord wasn’t comfortable with sharing the location of her studio, so she walked over a few blocks to set up at the carwash. “This is the first social thing I’ve done in months,” she said, adding that there had been a steady stream of cars running through since they’d set up at noon.