Any body into garage art here's a cool piece for sale

[paintman]

This is not mine but I thought I would post it. http://www.recyclingthepast.com/i953...vy-Front.aspx#

[OrrieG]

Yeah, you gotta love guys cutting up good parts for restaurant decor. Hopefully the back of the fenders were rusted out...

[iowaboynca]

$3500 ?!?

Ok...how many of you guys are going to dive into your parts pile and start making "art"?

OP- You're right would make nice mancave deco, but the price is a bit north for my liking.

[ptc]

Artists..... wow... they think very highly of their 'junk welding' skilz!!!!

[YukonXL04]

I like it, its cool and all but being double sided kills it for me. Thats a big item to dangle from the ceiling. Would rather be single sided and hang up high on a wall.

[Hampshire]

I'm an artist/designer by trade & (IMHO) that is pretty useless & ugly. One half of it may have been the start as some kind of wall art, but two halves crudely slapped together for what? Something to trip over?

Car parts as art & functional objects can work - I'm sure many have seen the trunk sections of classics made into a couch or whatever - but this....

[joedoh]

Originally Posted by YukonXL04

I like it, its cool and all but being double sided kills it for me. Thats a big item to dangle from the ceiling. Would rather be single sided and hang up high on a wall.

thats what I was thinking too, with it hanging you see the bottom.

[chopit]

Dayum..I'm going in the art business. Cut that baby back in half @ $1750 ea. ...flat steel the backside, line inside for ice, lift the hood reach in and get cold beer...

I can buy 2 pasture trucks for that around here...lol

Then I can cut a slab of back section off the cabs, stick them against the wall for a headboards, throw down a mattress frame and finish them off with a tailgate footboard. Let's see...$1750 for ea. of those also.

I just quadrupled my money.

Not enough tho. Help me out in my new fledgling venture...lol

I need ideas for rear fenders and running boards, bed that's missing the tailgate, dash etc.....

[mr48chev]

I can see any one of us taking some left over pieces that have enough good (for the art project) area left to do something like that and making a wall hanger but hope none of us would pay 3500 for that.

I'd almost bet that comes from a guy on an AD truck page on FB that is always throwing a picture of a fairly decent project truck out and saying "buy it before I cut it up and make an art project or furniture out of it.

I wouldn't make the whole bed as Chopit said but I have enough pieces laying around to use the back of a cab that's donating it's cowl for my new cab and what's left of a box that I rather hacked up a few years ago to make an interesting bench to sit on in or beside the shop I don't have yet.

[chopit]

Whats crazy is people that aren't into building these trucks or knowledgeable about them as well as restauants etc. pay crazy prices for the "art" pieces.

I inquired to a craigslist ad the other day for a bit rough but reasonably restorable tailgate thinking $50 or so. He said no I'm selling it as art $450...lol

[joedoh]

Originally Posted by chopit

Whats crazy is people that aren't into building these trucks or knowledgeable about them as well as restauants etc. pay crazy prices for the "art" pieces.

I inquired to a craigslist ad the other day for a bit rough but reasonably restorable tailgate thinking $50 or so. He said no I'm selling it as art $450...lol

I sold my extra tailgate, the one that was missing one end piece, for $150, and the guy was making art.

[Coach529]

A lot of people get butt hurt about it.....but I make a pretty good side income on furniture.





95% of my stuff comes from a junkyard that crushes pretty much everything depending on the market......

[Softpatch]

Originally Posted by paintman

This is not mine but I thought I would post it. http://www.recyclingthepast.com/i953...vy-Front.aspx#

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you could bag this bad boy for less then ten bucks ...YES I DID
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[chopit]

desk...too lazy today to crop the guys name out that saved it to pinterest lol

[joedoh]

I went to the swap meet today with beeps and the place was lousy with old truck art on every corner aisle. I heard prices above what this piece was asking and even saw some of it being carted off, like a lamp made from a flywheel and a camshaft and looking all the world to weigh at least 80 lbs.

[MARTINSR]

I can't for the life of me figure out why that thing would be made with the same on both sides, hopefully it was junk but damn those pieces look pretty solid to me.

I have this table I made from a 56 quarter panel in my living room. And yes it's all real stuff, I made it about 30 years ago.

Brian

[mr48chev]

That's a good lookring table that was probably made out of one of the few good parts of that car that was left.

[MARTINSR]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

That's a good lookring table that was probably made out of one of the few good parts of that car that was left.

Exactly, I bought one half of one quarter on a four door that was wasted. I did get the rear bumper and cut it up. But it was bent, the tail light and mouldings were bought of the car and emblems were reproduction.

All the parts at the wrecking yard were $75 if that gives you an idea of what we are talking about.

Brian