[BITList] Finally a use for your old spare car parts

Sat Sep 4 12:16:37 BST 2010


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> These items below were all fabricated from junked 1950 and 1960 automobile parts by a gentleman in Australia
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> Check out all the Spark Plugs!
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> James Corbett uses remnants of old cars of the 1950s and ' 60s.
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> This is the man that converts scrapped parts of cars into sculptures worth thousands of dollars. The 46-year-old Australian artist James Corbett,  
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> creates these sculptures using salvaged old car parts. 
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> One of the pieces, a ram made from spark plugs, sold for a whopping $23,000
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> His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhausts, radiators, anything that the artist can salvage. 
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> After spending weeks dedicated to locate suitable pieces, James meticulously cleans every part and welds them together.
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> He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap and a guy I know, that races stock cars, showed me a Trophy winner, "Fact with levers of change." 
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> "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job so I started making my own sculptures."
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> "After a period of time, people began to become more and more into what I was doing and now what I do with my life is a dream come to reality."
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> "On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but the larger pieces can take much longer, he says.
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> Corbett lives in Ningi, Queensland, Australia with his wife Jodie. 
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> Sculptures using pieces of old cars; the French and British cars are James' favorites to retrieve.
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> James says that welding of the parts, and the construction of the sculpture is not what consumes most time of the artist. 
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> "Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture."
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> The sculptor is exhibiting his work in the Gallery of John Davies in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, until December 19.  
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> "My two favorite pieces that I've created for this exhibition are the ram and the wild boar," he says.
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