Anyone using car parts for furniture?

I need a new coffee table in the TV room. I was thinking of a flathead with finned heads, and using 4 rods/pistons bolted to the top to hold up a clear oval piece of thick plexi or tempered glass...

Anyone do anything like this? I think I saw this once with a dead rover block.

Anyone

 

remember my coffee table? it held beer very well

 

I've got a piston out of a boat-engine I use as a magazine-table.
The piston is about 12" in diameter and 1.5 ft high. The upper 6" of it is iron, which I painted dark-red.
Great conversation piece.

 

Here ya go.

 

Neither one of these are mine and they are modern but I thought they were pretty creative...

 

a bed I made out of a truck a few years ago...

 

I have a two tiered red Craftsman tool box in my kitchen as a cupboard with kitchen utensils in it. I have a large, bottom only portion of a red Craftsman tool box in my computer room as a TV stand. That thing holds ALOT of stuff. I also have a bench seat out of a van to sit on in the same computer room.

I have a full size gas pump in the kitchen as well but thats not really a car part I guess. I still might try to figure out how to use car headlights pointing straight down over my breakfast bar as real lighting.

Rollie, that is way cool. It's vey similar to a bed that DRD57 and I were talking about one day a few years ago. Alittle differnt though. Kinda like the front of the truck is crashed into the wall. All you would seeis the back window portion and of course the bed of the truck with the mattresses in it, coming out from the wall. A portrait of what you might see driving down the road could be in the back window. Kinda hard to explain but I've got it pictured in my head.......if only I had that 40 x 40 loft bedroom that I want.

 

That's awesome! How much did it cost for the truck?

 

That would be cool to somehow fill with your favorite beverage and top-off when ever you feel like it.

If its one of those old see through glass, gravity feed pumps, that would make quite a beer bong.

 

I love having carstuff in the livingroom... I made a couch out of a benchseat of a '59 Impala, next to a glass sidetable that's supported by a steering wheel on a chrome pedestal. Not really 'car' but interesting nevertheless, There is a wooden propellor in the kitchen that functions as a clock... Maybe I put some pics on tomorrow

 

Now that table is one cool piece of furniture.

 

There is a flathead table here

http://www.fresh99.com/classic-auto-furniture.htm

 

I consider it more a fixture, but I have the front of a 59 Cadillac underneath the bar in my kitchen. Complete with blue neon I might add...oooohhhhh

 

This guys has some pretty cool stuff. jakeschopshop.com

 

Cool stuff already here.

 

Check out Steve Heller's site ...www.fabulousfurnitureon28.com

 

They bought a complete truck but being canadian it had so much rust the only good parts were the cab,doors,and 3 box sides. The rear fender is a fibreglass Ford , the front fender is part of a VW fender, I made the frame, tailgate ,lengthened the box3", and made the cab sills and floor removeable because it all had to come in the bedroom window 'cause it wouldn't fit thru the house. I also made the cab all "work" , the shifter and emerg., shortened the column and the glovebox. It was for a 14 year old kid, and I told his mother that she better hope he doesn't put some girl's head thru that back window. She didn't think that was too funny .

 

here is my table. one piston got knocked off when i moved and i have yet to drag it out to the garage to fix it. damn thing weighs like 200lbs

 

What happened to the header table?

Jay

 

some of the car furniture i had was
1 a 57 chevy loveseat made from the rear third of a wrecked 4 door
2 a few barstools made out of old steel wheels i had laying around
3 a coffee table that was made out of a 460 block that i put the piston through
4 coasters that i made out of junk pistons for the coffee table

 

This reminds me of the seats they have in Spaceland in Silver Lake. They look like late 60's Ford buckets out of a Mustank. I want to expand on that idea and build the entire thing from car parts- basically figure out how to use a steering wheel for the base and it'll rotate, Potsie.

Thanks,
Kurt

 

Although they look cool and are proably very comphy ...Does anyone besides me think when ya lean any weight to the back yer gonna be ass over tea kettle?

 

that's where proper placement of the air bag seat comes in

 

Not exactly furniture, but here it is (59 chev, 56 plymouth tail lights with 40's plymouth hubcap; lights are powered separately from clock). I need to add emblems for the clock numbers (i.e., '32 ford V8 logo for 8 o'clock, chev 409 logo for 4 o'clock and so on ).

 

it was flawed. it allways sat crooked and i thought i welded it up that way but turns out when i went to cut it apart and fix it,one header was a inch longer so i came up with this. its much more solid now too. just weighs twice as much

 

I have a sofa made from the rear of a '55 Chebby.

Doc.

 

I made a small table for my porch out of three cams used in a pyramid formation type of thing w/ a flexplate on top. Not as cool as some of these pieces but gave me somehting to do for an hour.

 

Here's some shelves I put up for more display room. I even used stick on car molding to keep the rims from rolling around.

Junkyard