Your MotoArt: Furniture, Useful Home Items, etc.

[Ginger]

So, every once in a while I get the urge to make somtehing for the house from my moto-bin. I run into parts I'll never need and can't sell for beans, or want to make something useful out of something I've blown up, bent, broken, burned, crashed, dropped, exploded, hit, or otherwise rendered useless. I don't have much right now - I've been trying to think of how to make a good looking coffee table using spare tires - but I had a turbocharger laying around and I was going to use it as a toothbrush holder, but Rex convinced me a pencil holder would be more better:



As if the people at work don't already think I have a problem.

I know JayRay's had the VW Grill Lamp and I seem to remember Blair making something cool (was it a table?). What've junk did you have that you brought back to life?

[Maengelito]

i used to have an exhaust manifold as a footrest and i currently use a ground control spring as a toothbrush holder. i think we had a thread about car parts as furniture earlier

[Ginger]

If anybody can find the old thread, please post it. I looked a little, but all I was able to find was Blair's table:





And one Chapin posted of one he found on t3h interwebs:

[Ginger]

Also - I'd like to include any 'elegant' technology solutions you feel you might have. Whether it's out-in-the-open tech that suits its environment well, or stuff you couldn't make look good, but hid well and retained it's effectiveness.

[ScottyB]

Blair's table kicks so much ass.

i have some ideas in waiting:

- valve cover flipped over (oil cap hole closed up), with legs added to make a serving peice for candy or maybe a catch-all for random junk like screws/bolts/change in the garage

- i'm going to find a way to make coasters out of old pistons. i think i'll flip them upside down and grind out the underside of the piston to accept the bottom of a cup. then put a little felt on the top of the piston to keep furniture from getting torn up. might make a neat little change holder too.

[Ginger]

Those are pretty cool... an upside down valve cover would make a cool center piece for a table. RJ and I have talked about the pistons before, too, but I don't really have any spares

If anybody else has any ideas, throw them out there. The big ends of Con-Rods might fit solo cups...

[navin]

Old pistons as ashtrays, had a picture but can't find it anymore.

[ScottyB]

I don't really have any spares

i'll give you an old 1.8T piston if you want to try something on it. the catch is that it's still attached to the rod

[.RJ]

Scotty, remember the "cylinder head dinner table centerpiece" :lol:

[Sijray21]

Scotty, remember the "cylinder head dinner table centerpiece" :lol:

i believe it was leaking oil over the counter :-P

[.RJ]

*ahem* it was not leaking! I at least had it hot tanked before I put it on the table :lol:

[mrbaggio]

I dig the turbo pen holder. Who wants to make me one??

[Ginger]

I dig the turbo pen holder. Who wants to make me one??

Step 1: Get Turbo

Step 2: Put pens in it

[CaptainHenreh]

I have a turbo for sale. 50 bucks and it's youuuuuuuuuurs.

[WRXtranceformed]

I have a turbo for sale. 50 bucks and it's youuuuuuuuuurs.

That's an expensive pen holder!!!

[mrbaggio]

There is zippy chance i would ever play $50 for a pen holder.

[BLAIR]

still love my table. its actually in my appt now. I have revised it a bit so its alot cooler now. I love art-furniture made out of car parts, its so damn cool

[ScottyB]

Scotty, remember the "cylinder head dinner table centerpiece" :lol:

yeah...it was a peice alright :lol:

nothing like waking up to the smell of rancid simple green as you tuck into a bowl of cereal

:ralf:

[Evan]

Scotty, remember the "cylinder head dinner table centerpiece" :lol:

yeah...it was a peice alright :lol:

nothing like waking up to the smell of rancid simple green as you tuck into a bowl of cereal

:ralf:

got to be better than 3 25 year old motorcycle gas tanks sitting next to your table :roll:

[Ginger]

Toothbrush holder [CBR F4 Water Pump]: