What have you made from old car parts?

Alright what new uses have you all came up with for old car parts? Here's mine, it a beltbuckle made from a 59 for truck horn button.

 

I made a car

 

- a mess in my garage
- myself bloody
- my savings empty

 

My head hurt
My wife pissed

 

A truck!.....but it's not done yet.

 

I made a wind chime out of my old 3 speed trans gears.
I can post some pics when I get home, at work now.

 

my mail box

 

I'm working on makin a lamp out of a detroit 671 blower.. I got it out of the trash thinkin jackpot!! Someone took and cut the bottom out of it so now its a lamp..

 

Nothing yet, but i've got a bunch of stuff saved up for that very thing.

 

A 10 inch tall metal robot sculpture.

 

Money!

 

A slapper paddle out of an old leaf spring.

 

A big pile of old car parts.

 

Was a time that I made a living from old car parts. It involved me getting dirty and lots of cussing.

Hell I suppose that if you get right down to it I made a new language from old car parts. I remember once I was setting up a new old leaf spring for an old sailor. I managed to get the palm of my have pinched between the leaves and just turned the air blue. The old fella said he heard words used in ways he had never heard before and even a couple of new words.

 

I was bored one weekend and grabbed an old carb off the shelf.

 

I made a big empty building with lots of space turn into a big building with no space in it. Then I made a car which got some space back, and then somehow that space went away too.

 

I made this motorcycle sculpture...

 

a living!

 

Have shown these elsewhere here, but a phew of my inventions....

 

I made a trip to the swap meet.

 

Various hubcap clocks.

 

Made my own version of the Cadillac ranch from a 55 Pontiac 4 door that we found in a junkyard about 6 years ago. The car was JUNK so we didn't feel bad about using it for yard art.

I wired a dashboard light bulb to an old 9v cell phone charger and the taillight is lit day & night. I used industrial enamel and brush painted it before I sank it in the ground.

EVERY little kid that comes to the house thinks that there is a whole old car buried under my house!

Funny thing is that once I painted it, I stuck it in this garden (right outside the dining room window & next to the deck) just to mess with my wife. When I started to move it a few days later, she asked me to leave it there because she liked it! Her parents are assured that we're absolutely crazy now (look for my other posts on how we decorated the detatched garage into an old Texaco station!) and that's the way that I like it!!! Keeps them from visiting very much. Also the way that we like it!!!

I'll try to remember to post some other photos of some cool things that a friend of mine made for her son's bedroom out of some junk that I gave her. She used an old Rambler taillight and housing mounted on a table lamp base to make a nightlight and used an old license plate as a switch plate for the overhead lights....

 

I like that a lot. Never made any lamps or clocks, but did a lot of that other stuff. It's amazing how much room three cars take when all tore apart in a two car garage!

 

Old model As and Ts rearend housings make great jack stands. old truck beds make good trailers. And what about the fancy car couches and desks. Mostly though,old useless junk parts make *** ***s

 

made this sign hanger thing out of an old trans tower

 

Not all car parts but some

 

I recently sold an N.O.S. set of those ^ ^ ^ boat lights for $30.00.

 

I want that! ...and the little Robot!

 

old cars

 

I made this from all NY plates