What to do with old car parts

[Chug And Red]

These
are amazing! He has not only made it look like the animal, but they
look alive with motion.​

These
items below were all fabricated from junked 1950 and 1960 automobile
parts by a gentleman in Australia

Check
out all the Spark Plugs......... James Corbett uses remnants
of cars from the '50s and '60s.

This
is the man that converts scrapped parts of carsinto
sculptures

worth
thousands of dollars. The 46-year-old Australian artist James
Corbett,​

creates
these sculptures using salvaged old car parts.


One
of the pieces, a ram made from spark plugs, sold for a whopping
$23,000

His
sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhausts, radiators,
anything

that
the artist can salvage.


After
spending weeks dedicated to locate suitable pieces, James
meticulously

cleans
every part and welds them together.


He
said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap and a guy I know,
that

races
stock cars, showed me a Trophy winner, "Fact with levers of
change."​

"I
looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job so I
started​

making
my own sculptures."


"After
a period of time, people began to become more and more into
what

I
was doing and now what do I with my life, is a dream come to
reality."


"On
average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but
the

larger
pieces can take much longer, he says.

Corbett
lives in Ningi , Queensland , Australia with his wife
Jodie.

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using pieces of old cars; the French and British cars are James'
favorites to retrieve.
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James
says that welding of the parts, and the construction of the
sculpture

is
not what consumes most time of the artist. "Often the longest part
of the​

process
is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."


James
says that welding of the parts, and the construction of the
sculpture

is
not what consumes most time of the artist. "Often the longest part
of the​

process
is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."
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"My
two favorite pieces that I've created for this exhibition are the
ram and the wild boar," he says.
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I hope you enjoyed these, take care, stay safe and have a great day, Happy New Year everyone, may 2013 be better than 2012!!!! Red
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[spartacus53]

Honestly, there is nothing funny about those sculptures, James has some talent there

 

[Chug And Red]

Honestly, there is nothing funny about those sculptures, James has some talent there

I know, but I couldn't make up my mind where to put these, they are so amazing I just wanted to share with everyone! Red

 

[spartacus53]

Well you could have posted them in the Everything Else section, but I don't see any guns there

 

[Chadeaux]

Great art.

BTW, love the "Sheriff Gumby" avatar. One of my personal favorite shows as a kid.

I named my network "Gumby" and all my computers are named after the characters on that show.

 

[Ram Bahri]

There may be facilities available in your area where you can take old car parts and recycle them. Some cities or towns have special trash collection days, when workers will pick up items that are not everyday materials.

 

[A2coins]

Dang those are cool I used to have a muffler man