Tesla Cybertruck Spotted Towing Huge Elon Musk Statue: What's Going On?

It’s not every day that you see a giant cast of Elon Musk’s head drive by, towed by a matte black Tesla Cybertruck. However, those living in Brownsville, Texas, got their fair share of a surprise on Sunday.

X user SE Robinson Jr. shared a video shot by Sandra Helena Garcia and eventually deleted it, leaving only a photo online. The video previously uploaded to X showed the statue of Elon Musk, who didn’t look much like him, sitting on a trailer, towed by a Tesla Cybertruck, not far from SpaceX’s Starbase headquarters in Texas. However, no one knows where it came from or where it was going.

Elon Musk has been an active investor in Brownsville. In 2021, he donated $10 million to revitalize the city, which is home to one of SpaceX’s rocket manufacturing facilities.

At the time, Musk announced that he was planning to build a city called Starbase in the Boca Chica area, not far from Brownsville. The donation came as a surprise even to Brownsville's former mayor, Mayor Trey Mendez.

Starbase is headquartered in Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Cameron County has also received a substantial donation, and Elon Musk is not stopping there. He plans to invest $15 million in the construction of a shopping center in Brownsville, which will include a grocery store, a bar, a restaurant, and an outdoor terrace overlooking the Rio Grande.

All of this investment could be tied to the arrival of the Elon Musk statue in the city. However, Torque News reports that the statue is the creation of a group that intends to sell a piece of Elon Musk's likeness as digital art in the form of an NFT.

The structure looks like a bronze statue, but it could be made of a lighter material with a dark gold paint. The statue is only attached to the trailer with thin straps, a sign that it shouldn't be that heavy, and a potential fall wouldn't hurt anyone or damage other drivers' cars. Not bad, at least.

Using the Cybertruck for the service seems like a publicity stunt. However, it was apparently designed to not look like Elon Musk, following the lines of a drawing of the Tesla CEO, which looked like his face was melting. The drawing was posted on Reddit five years ago. At the time, Elon Musk responded ironically: “It's like looking in the mirror.“Group X ElonRWA found the person who drew the portrait, took possession of it, and turned it into an NFT.

ElonRWA has already created a giant mural of the portrait in Brownsville. His goal is to convince people who see it to buy a fraction of the Elon Musk NFT drawing.