[Chrysler300] Auto Parts Art! UNBELIEVABLE...

["JJ" <vjhemi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FW: Auto Parts Art! UNBELIEVABLE...
A master at combining spot welding and imagination!


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Auto Parts Art!!!!!!


These items below were all fabricated from junk 1950 and 1960
automobile parts by a gentleman in Australia. Very creative guy.


This is the man that converts parts of cars scrapped  into sculptures
worth thousands of dollars. The Australian artist James Corbett,
46-year-old, creates these sculptures using salvaged old car parts. 


One of the pieces, a ram of spark plug, sold for a
whopping $23,000.


His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhaust,
radiator, anything that the artist can achieve.


After spending weeks dedicated to locating suitable pieces, James
meticulously cleaned every part and welds them together.


He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap metal, and I knew a guy,
that ran in stock car races.  He showed me a Trophy the winner won that was made with levers, nuts and bolts."  "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job.  So I started making my own sculptures."


"After a period of time, people began to become more and more interested in what I was doing.  Now, what I dream, becomes reality."


"On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work,
but the larger pieces can take much longer", he says.


Corbett lives in Ningi, Queensland, Australia with his wife Jodie.


Sculptures use pieces of old cars; the French and British cars
are James' favorites to retrieve.


James says that welding and the sculpture of the parts is not the
part that consumes the most time of the artist.  "Often the longest
part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."


The sculptor is exhibiting his work in the Gallery John Davies in
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, until December 19.


"My two favorite pieces I've created for this exhibition are the
ram and the wild boar," he says.
































 
 

 
 



 

 

 







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