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GARAGE ART: What'd you build?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by neonloverrob, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. vividlyvintage
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    what did those chrome moldings come off of originally?those are kick ass!!! I want a bench light like that!!
     
  2. noxided
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    Oldsmobile Futuramic rear fender trim.
     
  3. pops29
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    from turlock ca

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    In front of my shop
     
  4. hotrodladycrusr
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    Very cool. I LOVE it!

    Very, very clever. I LOVE this as well.
     
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  5. Da Tinman
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    yeah the remain of the car ar in a ditch near Pops house, not much left of it but I got some of the trim off it and that seemed like a good use for it as the top edges are damaged pretty badly.

    I just bent the corners of the light up and set the trim on, took longer to paint than to mount.
     
  6. vividlyvintage
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    thanks. I am for sure going to copy that.. looks so simple but like it was meant to be that way.

    I recently inherited a few things from my great grandfather, one of the items was this awesome atomic styled work bench light. The little bottle in the fourth photo was used just to balance the light
     

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  7. Where did you get the FUTURAMIC spear? That thing is awesome!
     
  8. We found a rusted out hulk of a 55 Pontiac in our favorite little country junkyard, and since we usually had the run of the place, we took a generator and a sawzall and cut the back corner off. I painted it with industrial enamel and put it in my wife's flower garden just to mess with her. Funny thing was that a few weeks later when I started to move it to another place in the yard, she stopped me and said "Leave it! I like it there!" I took an old cell phone charger and a dashboard light bulb and made the taillight work. EVERY little kid that comes to the house asks if we have a whole car buried there...

    A little OT, but we also found the "SPEED QUEEN" emblem on an old junk washing machine and I glued some magnets to the back and stuck it on the fridge. It looks like an old hood ornament, and even her parents (who don't get the "old car thing" AT ALL have never even noticed it on the rare occasion that they come to visit!)

    Buddy of mine's wife wanted to change her "little boy's" room to a "bigger boy's" room, so I gave her a pile of stuff that I didn't really have a use for. The taillight lamp is VERY cool, and you can switch either the 60W or the night light bulb on or off independently. (It's a Rambler taillight, I think, and she mounted it all on an old car show trophy base that I gave her.) The license plate switch cover was also so simple I was amazed that I didn't think of it!
     

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  9. AntiBling
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    Well since I don't have a shop to actually get to work on the idea I had after seeing this, I might as well share it. You could make something similar to that work bench light using a bumper over rider.
     
  10. JKB
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    We build quite a bit of odd's and ends from book ends, commercial retail fixtures and of course furniture, here's an end table. Mainly sell it to a local furniture store in Royal Oak that does a lot of commercial store setup's.
     

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  11. hotrodladycrusr
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    VERY COOL! What furniture store in Royal Oak? I'd love to stop by there and check out everything.
     
  12. THE KUSTOMIZER
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    from south nj
    1. 60s Show Rods

    My chevelle couch
     

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  13. WOW!!! Want to do my door in Nebraska?
     
  14. fibertech
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    Recycled parts....

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    The other side of this tank didn't look so good....

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    One MUTHA of a wall clock....

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  16. Mayor of G-Vegas
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    You will stick a clock kit in just bout anything- Mayor
     
  17. rancid737
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    Started on this, still got to do paint and bodywork on it.....
     

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  18. aceuh
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    I kept expectin to see a pic of him wearing a t-shirt with a clock kit coming outta his chest...

    And it woulda been cool too! :D
     
  19. neonloverrob
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    Ok...that's pretty bad-ass! I might have to steal this idea!
     
  20. Big Dad
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  21. NINE INCH
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    Sweet. Didn't see that coming.
     
  22. moefuzz
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    Found Photo that I thought was cool



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  23. That was done at Jake's Chop Shop in Phoenix. He's done some cool furniture. He was building a couple of toilets with tanks that looked like Harley motors when I stumbled into his shop a few years ago.
     
  24. wutnxt
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    Here's mine. Guy cut up a '57 F100 into tiny pieces so he could haul it to the scrap yard. Notice the small piece of fender still attached to the grill. That was his cut line. Don't ask about the grill. It's a lot rustier than it looks.
     

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  25. pecdaddy
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    made these 3.
     

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  26. Wow, some very cool stuff in this thread.
    Here is the last thing I put together, need to get
    70' of round stock for grill bars, but it's hanging
    and lit up.
     

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  27. euroman1
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    Hi,
    that's what i've build many years ago out of a '64 Caddy.The reason for the high back rest is to fold it down to make a bed.The Trunk doesn't come apart and we had to carry it into my third floor appartment in my Dad's house in Germany.My Buddys told me afterwards;You are moving outta here do NOT!call us for help.So i left it there when i moved to Canada a few years ago.

    Rainer
     

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  28. I thought this was pretty cool...
     

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  29. Or this for those summer nights on the deck..
     

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