My sister-in-law sent me this......... Auto Parts Art!!!!!! These items below were all fabricated from junk 1950 and 1960 automobile parts by a gentleman in Australia. Very creative guy. This is the man that converts parts of cars scrapped into sculptures worth thousands of dollars. The Australian artist James Corbett, 46-year-old, creates these sculptures using salvaged old car parts. One of the pieces, a ram of spark plug, sold for a whopping $23,000. His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhaust, radiator, anything that the artist can achieve. He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap metal, and I knew a guy, that ran in stock car races. He showed me a Trophy the winner won that was made with levers, nuts and bolts." "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job. So I started making my own sculptures." "On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but the larger pieces can take much longer”, he says. There's quite a few more. I've got them all up on my Flickr page...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/krashkadillak/
I wonder if our in-house artists have seen this thread. Ingenious use of old car-bones. I wonder if he ever made any trophies.
Those are pretty amazing. There's a guy in CO that has been doing that for years and you can see his work around CO. Before I moved out to CO I did an install job for a customer in West Palm beach, FL who had one of his pieces of art in his front yard it was a horse that was about 15' high. http://current.com/groups/on-current-tv/76343622_bumper-crop.htm
This guy is a true artist....stunning suff! But....it's no wonder we have difficulty finding bumpers and other chrome parts.
Yeah I was thinking along those lines. I'm glad that stuff is being used and he is creating something out of it. Real cool. Could you imagine though if you had been looking all over the country for a piece to complete a restoration and then you saw it on one his sculptures.
Here's a robot made from all mopar parts. I'm thinking I see a '64 plymouth in there as his shoulders. I was going to have everybody guess where it was from, but decided against it. I'm sure it looks familiar to you baby boomers, especially if you ever attended the '64 '65 World's Fair in New York. This monstrosity was on display in front of the Chrysler pavilion and after the fair closed, it was moved to Hartman's Amusement Park on Long Beach Island, NJ, where it stayed until the mid 70's , I think.
If your talking about the guy in CO, he gets most of his bumpers from Denver Bumper. The place has thousands of chrome bumpers. I-25 runs right by it and you can see the glisten off the chrome when you drive by it at the right time.
