Featured Art & Inspiration What Auto Parts do you have as Decoration in your House

Just this, my buddy @atch gave me 2 of them. One is hanging in my shop, the other in my house

 

Shown before, but my nightlight.

 

My kitchen machine ,,,,,,,,,

 

My ba*****t bathroom:

Old small roll around toolbox bottom is now the Cherry Bomb cabinet. Made the TP holder from a GM pulley, the used cam from my Nailhead, and a couple of SBC valves welded together. The flamed curtain was sewn by my late mother from bar towels.

The vanity light is of course, a Hemi valve cover, the mirror is a SBC to Flathead trans adapter, the corner shelves I made from old license plates (EZ PIK UP was one I had when I was single & 301-MEL was one of my wife's former plates), the light switch and outlet plates are motorcycle license plates, and the parts washer is...

The sink! I used an RV folding faucet.

 

Almost forgot about the framed Merc ad hanging in the ba*****t

and the stupid lamp I made from a Ford Custom trim piece I found half buried on my property, a '47 Dodge carb, '63 Chevy hub cap, Fram air filter, '57 T-Bird crossed flags chrome, and yes, the key switch turns it on/off.

 

My wife lets me keep a piece of stainless trim that Gene Winfield signed simply because she had met him at car shows and he paid more attention to her than he did me but I expected that to happen.

My shelves of model or toy cars are too ******** dusty to show and remind me that I need to have a Moriairty style house cleaning on the shelves around the fireplace. = haul everything out, clean, clean everything as it goes back.

 

Cool bathroom!

 

Not much but this is all I got that my wife will let me have in here……..

 

I guess I have some catching up to do…

 

But then I remembered I have this stuff…

 

@BJR, if you don't want this stuff to be included in your thread send me a PM and I'll delete it.

The only stuff I have that really truly fits BJR's original scope is all out in my shop. I haven't been out there in quite a few days and until I get over this creepin' crud (winter cold) I won't be leaving the house. But here are a few items that are auto/hot rod related in my den/museum:

The drawing of the front of an F-1 is part of the box that GV Gordon sent me some stuff in. He drew the art on the box:






One of the R&C Americruise giveaways:

A**** other things a 1964 Chevrolet yardstick listing Chevrolet, Chevelle, Corvair, Chevy II, and Corvette. I've had all of these except the Chevy II (not all '64s though); yes, those are actual albums that I bought way back then:



A poster that Jim Lytle sent me:

An award from the SK-500 that Mick gave me:


A pillow my daughter made for me after stealing a couple of my H.A.M.B. shirts:

 

im trying to imagine how you did this. Post a picture?

 

Just flip it inside up, on a cradling stand, and you have a spill proof table top.
Cool.

 

None. My shop is my domain and the house is my wife's. She would not be enthusiastic about automobilia as a decoration in the house and I don't want her decorating/arranging my shop.

 

My wife has been a huge participant and has been involved with my automotive hobby and life style since before we got married, when I was 19. This coming May, that will be 50 years ago, for those of you wondering. I can't imagine living the life we have enjoyed without her participation. The house we live in is a direct result of our automotive life style. We bought this house 24 years ago because it is a business zoned location I was able to move my automotive related welding shop to. The shop is my domain, but I allow her car to be parked in it along side of my truck (unless work space is needed for a day or two).

Be ***ured the house is her domain, and all the decorations in the entire house are all by her choice. Part of her domain has always included things based on our life style. Through out our home, each room has a decoration theme chosen by her. One of those rooms is what we call "the computer room." Before I retired, that room was my shop office and is where I spend a lot of my time these days, so it holds most of the automobilia I posted earlier. There are rooms where there is not anything automotive related, and there are spaces that may contain a stray piece or two of automobilia that fits in with the decor of the room. My wife paints ceramics and she really likes the old season decorated pickup truck thing that is popular these days.

 

Nothing too ostentatious !

 

Just some of the bits and pieces that I have drug home from swap meets.

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Ok. To be clear, this was not my idea. My wife decided that my gas pump would look cute in her kitchen. So, with a little ***istance from @Kim Strobeck and my daughters beau we moved it into the house.

She added a snowman “petroleum transfer engineer” to the display and put red cloth over the white lights that illuminate the dials

I was not on board but as per fricken usual, it works. My wife is a damn Christmas elf.

 

Wall clock made from a 54 Chevy gauge bezel, a clock face with "made in occupied Japan" on it, a scanned portion of a 1950's map, 54 chevy side trim, and a louvered panel bought at a swap meet. It's nothing special but I'm proud of it.

 

make a mirror image,weld together and you have the perfect taillight etc, ***y. for an old pickup!-think bandit billy..

 

Damn, after reading thru this...feeling a little inadequate. No parts.....but some automobilia in the corner of the den.

 

Saw this on the net

 

My avatar made in the mid 1990's from all orig left over 32 parts.It's now in a collection in CA .Here is a close up of it when is was first finished.

 

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It's fantastic, the composition is perfect and so evocative...