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AUTOMOTIVE FURNITURE
Innovative ways to recycle your garbage/totaled car.
We've all seen them somewhere or the other: tacky, misplaced, oftentimes completely, uselessly awesome. Furniture made out of car parts is nothing new, or nothing to be scoffed at; if done right, these sculptures of metal car parts can look undeniably cool and hip.
So what's cool and what isn't?
Engine block coffee tables:
The coolest of the most common automotive furniture out there. The concept is simple, take an engine block from a cool but dead engine, find a way to mount a glass top onto it, and voila! You need symmetry and a minimum number of
cylinders for it to look cool, so at least six cylinders (preferably in a V shape) is the requirement. Basically, if you were considering taking that 4EFE out of a Toyota Starlet and turning the block into a
coffee table, forget it, because it will look naked
and scrawny. The rich and famous usually go for V10 engines out of Fl cars, since even a run of the mill Fl car will go through as many as eight engines in just one season, so plenty of dead engines out there to turn into extremely expensive coffee tables. The cheapest one we found on EBay was £150.
Half cut couches:
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Bangladeshis are starved of half cuts of powerful cars for engine conversions, but abroad, people throw around half cuts of pretty rare cars like loose change. Want the front end of a Chevy Bel Air to turn into a couch? How
about a pristine, classic Fiat 500? Its not just front ends either, entire cars are sometimes turned into seating areas. Check out our very own Club Wheels in Banani and sit inside a Volvo while munching on burgers and fries. They have some cool examples of car furniture too.
Desks and workstations:
Mini Cooper with the sides cut in to make space for the awesomest cubicle ever? Sign us up. We'd love one of these at Shift HQ, but since we work from the dingiest comer of the basement with a leaky ceiling and bursting pipes, its not really the most
suitable place to house a precious Mini desk. Other, simpler versions of car desks include the front and rear ends of various Americana iron, like Corvettes and Impalas. Most of them are tacky and inconvenient, only a few actually pull it off.
Chairs and thrones of a different kind: Bucket seats converted to office chairs? Check. Vespa front cowl used as the backside of a chair? Check. Commode shaped and painted like a custom lowrider? Uhm, yeah, that too. Just don't pretend you have hydraulics when you're dropping a number two on your custom lowrider toilet.
Miscellaneous: Lamps mounted on springs, clocks made out of flywheels and cam gears, sculptures made out of spark plugs and pistons, wall hangings, kitchen fittings, pool tables fitted on top of an early Vette or Mustang, spotlights housed within the emptied out case of an oil filter, the list goes on and on. It seems you can
make something out of anything when it comes to spare parts from cars, and we love it. Cars are rolling works of art down to the last nut and bolt, and we love the fact that some crazed gearheads are willing to bring their passion for cars into their living rooms, bedrooms and offices.
( SHAER REAZ