Art & Inspiration non automotive parts you have used on your hot rod or custom

2 1/2 inch discharge port cap from a fire engine as my brake pedal pad. One day I’ll replace the spoon gas pedal with a FD spanner wrench.

John

 

A 50's boat Sudbury Laboratory explosion proof circuit breaker face plate for my battery kill switch.

 

When I'm cruising around town and don't want dirt and bugs going in my headlight ram air I pop in paint can lids. They fit perfect.

 

When you throttle breaks and you absolutely have to get home and there is a delegated shed close by, you make do with what you can find. HRP

 

I was tidying up the utility room and I came across this bathroom glass holder. The plastic bit which gets screwed to the wall is long gone. My first thought was that it would make a cool radiator mascot with a figurine of some sort affixed inside the ring.

 

I have seen this done before so its not a new idea so here is my take on the old esky into a battery box.

It is going into the bed of my 32 pickup.

My friend Dennis Elstone painted the coke logo on it.

 

For all the Kiwi brethren out there, he means a chully bun

 

Pondering.....I found this generic tractor cluster. I wonder if it would be easy enough to get the fuel gauge to work with an automotive sender

 

I’ve used pie pans and cake pans for air cleaner and ram air bases as well as air filters.

 

@Ned Ludd or depending on how big that hole is could be used to hold an outside tailpipe along the body or possibly a gauge mount.

 

They would operate in the same way, but you may have to insert a series resistor to match the range. You can fit a variable resistor (potentiometer) and adjust.