The 56 Chevy parked in my living room.

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Here is one of the few "car art" objects I have done. God love a wife that will put up with this stuff.




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Nice! Can you use the tail light for mood lighting?

The tail lamp lights, blinker blinks and back up light lights. This is the "gas door" side where the tail lamp is hinged and drops down. Behind it is a shelf where the fuel filler tube was.

Brian

Brian,

Gotta love it. BTW, what does the "trunk" (back) side look like? Or did you weld together a left and a right half so that both sides look the same?

Dewey

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It's exactly the same on the other side. It looks like I took a car and cut right down the middle of each tail lamp and removed everything in the middle. In reality, I only used one quarter and fabbed the other side.

I shouldn't have said it was the "gas door side", it is actually only the "gas door tail lamp".

It was actually a right side quarter, the side you see in this photo was made by me. I wish I could get paid to do stuff like this, it was a blast.

Brian

Whoa, now I'm even MORE impressed. Nice fabrication job. I would think there would be a very nice market for that sort of work. It's nice because it takes up a lot less space than those chairs/sofas they make from a trunk or entire tail end.

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Different view, how about putting a flamed mail box in place of the shelf, I think there would be a market for those !!!
Maybe, Fords, Pontiac, Olds, Buick !!!!
Keep up the excellent work.

I like the nightstand, my only suggestion is get rid if the "dolphin" on top of it!!

i like that, i headed to the junk yard rightnow, if there are any old cars left out there

What do you use to fill the hole in the wall when you take the car for a spin?

That is awsome man! When I get my own place I want to have a sweet 50's diner looking kitchen and living room and do things like that. I had HEAPS of idea's for things like that just would be hard to FIND cars to use and if I found them I would hate to cut them up like that. That is why I need to find parts of cars and fenders and build off of that.
Good job though!

So nobody thinks I cut up a mint original convertible or something, it was a four door sedan and this quarter and the ends of the bumper were about the only usable part on the car!

Brian

What happened? did you let your wife back the car into the garage??

Awesome work man, I love that


Brad

I haven't posted in some time but this I couldn't let go by.
Just thought I should say WOW !!!!
You did an excellent job on that piece.

Thanks guys, I have been looking for some other photos that I tool while I was building it but seem to have lost them.

Brian