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I posted about my Street Rodder placemats I was putting up in my garage and Pmeisel asked about other things we may have on our walls. Thought I would start this thread. :welcome:

I have my garage walls literally covered with "treasures". Most of it is junk to anyone else, but they are treasures to me. :mwink:

I have everything from a 1958 (the year I was born) calender from the auto parts store where I bought my first paint. :) To a couple of the first magazines I ever bought, to my first drivers license, to a memorial to street rodder friends who have passed on. I have a shingle from a beer hut at the now gone local drag strip. My American Graffitti poster that I bought when I first saw it first run. I got the poster at a record shop (yes a RECORD shop) that is long gone. It was printed on the BACK of another poster!

How about the license plate off the 50 Olds I came home from the hospital in!

I recently started putting things up that I was "saving" in boxes. Saving for what? For my kids to go thru after I am gone and throw away? Like I said, it means nothing to anyone but me.

Brian






 
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MARTINSR said:
thanks for the link brian, now that i looked at that link i think i vaguely remember seeing it shortly after i joined.

the pic you posted today i referred to hit me in the head like a brick the instant i saw it, the dead giveaway was the chrome radiator surge tank beside the valve cover. i've worked on several 54s and restored a couple. i recognized it instantly... :thumbup:
 
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i keep my garage art on the floor, here is some of the "current" garage art...the "art" displays revolve like in a museum, or a work in progress: sorry about the focus, for some reason my cam doesn't do well under floursents.
 

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LOL, some of that stuff you can hang on the wall like art! What year? It has been many years since I had my 64 but that stuff is Mid year isn't it? Well, all those parts would be the same up thru the seventies wouldn't they? All except the manifold and valve covers which could be going on any year so I have no idea what you have.

Brian
 
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MARTINSR said:
LOL, some of that stuff you can hang on the wall like art! What year? It has been many years since I had my 64 but that stuff is Mid year isn't it? Well, all those parts would be the same up thru the seventies wouldn't they? All except the manifold and valve covers which could be going on any year so I have no idea what you have.

Brian
LOL, you know exactly what i have. all those parts are from a 1964 corvette (minus the manifold), yes they are Mid year parts (now called C2 parts). the valve covers are 63-67 small block specific. the manifold is an SY-1 nascar thingie, and yes, you are right once again--these parts are the same for any vette from 63 to 82. :thumbup: and yeah, i could hang them on the wall, but i think i'd rather hang them on my car... :D :D :D
 
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RODDER18 said:
Sometimes my walls are decorated with parts of a current project or just old stuff. To me its art to others its just old junk.
hey, i have those same mirrors on my austin 4 door gasser that you have on the yellow coupe. the funny thing is the engine sits where the front seat was and i sit where the back seat was--so my mirrors are attached to the rear doors. i don't have a pic of the car, but here's a pic of the gasser engine, hope it comes out:



hey brian, that one was all over the floor as garage art too... :thumbup:
 

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MARTINSR said:
If you had a drum or backing plate out there I could have hit it on the head. :)

Brian
sorry brian, the drum backing plates just got sandblasted and epoxy primed/painted but who cares??? you got it right anyway...now the weather is the only thing holding me up (sorry C-boy-->i know you live in minasnowta) a slight chance of rain today, winds, low temps. the logistics of blasting my frame, paint with with epoxy with the wind blowing, i'll sleep for another day.
 
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Art?

I call this Hotrod art, but you can call it what ever you want. It's scrap items found in an industrial dumster. The piston is 7 1/2" dia and 9/1/4" tall, highly polished aluminum. The nuts are 2 1/4" 8 pitch and 5" across the flats, they are polished alloy steel. The nuts could be cool paper weights. I plan to give the piston away as a memorial trophy in memory of my sister at a local car show. I also have a few other things I'm working on at this time.

 
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Very cool stuff guys, I love art in any form and creative stuff like the piston and shifter is what it is all about. I can see the passion you put in to it.

Bold, very nice drawing, some of the stuff on my walls I did as well. Not as nice as yours but that is the point, damn it, put up what ever makes you smile.

The "Lefty loosy, righty tighty" sign was made for a Cub Scout meeting in the garage a few years ago and stayed. It is great for the laugh, or for my 10 year old to look at and not be embarrased , (or his dad to sneak a peak :) ).

You can't read it, but below the American Graffitti poster to the left is a sign I got from the only full on restoration shop I ever worked at. It says "Why is there never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over?"

Brian
 
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Well OK.

This is my fathers garage were we do most of the building. This is a bike we are building from a basket case '81 super wide, One of many, includes 67 pan head with full dress and mustang seat, '81 FLH 80ci, 100th annavarsary silver, and 105th aniversary burnt orange. The welding booth and a pic of the side entrance to the rear of the garage. Notice the eye hole ;) . He is retired from the post office if that helps explain things.... :D
 

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