Weirdest Part On Your Car

[Guest Bazwaz]

My starter button is a nurse call button. Car starts ok but no one comes. Who remembers the earlier hoods where we were told to make the embelishers for the clocks from the rims of Pot Noodle containers.

 

 

Baz

[Guest Nigel Novice]

Weirdest part on any of my cars has been the Nut behind the wheel

[Guest scrabster]

air deflector in nose cone made in aluminium from dustbin lorry side advert panel.

[Dave R]

air deflector in nose cone made in aluminium from dustbin lorry side advert panel.

got bits of a road sign in mine

[Guest burgo]

i want pics of some of these lol. ill dig out the pics of mine

[Guest Guy]

My chassis is made from a mixture of old drawing hanging racks and metal school chair tubes, all from skips at my work and my daughters school,

Dashboard is an old oak floorboard (also from a skip)

Petrol reservoir tank is a CO2 welding bottle

Gear knob is the wooden handle from my wood plane

Front grill came from a BBQ

Padding for the seats is a lot of old jumble sale blankets and a child's sofa bed

The central spine of the bonnet is an electrical conduit cover (skip)

The floor is made from separate sections of 2mm aluminium shelving units (skip)

 

Most of the rest was donated or came from Ebay, I did buy new nuts & bolts, Aluminium sheet for the bodywork was new and I bought a new pot of green paint

[Guest scottie686]

My overflow bottle for the rad is a small thermal metal drinks flask from Robert Dyas (which was the same colour as my chassis, hence why i bought it!!!) with a rubber cap that has a 8mm stainless tube running through it that i pinched from her bottle of Italian Olive Oil and aided with pouring!! Cos the tube is both sides of the rubber cap the overflow hose from the rad and the bit of hose inside the bottle fit perfectly!! Job done. Now i have to settle with regular cooking oil!! A fair sacrifice!!! hehe!!

 

Scott

[TonySuperSpec]

Mines a cut down MOP bucket from the £ shop to make the steering column shroud

 

It was far better than the bit of Carbon Fiber supplied by RH

 

:rolleyes:

[speedtripledan]

Genius! I've always wondered where to get cheap, pre-terminated, multiway connectors from. Just ordered 2 of these!

I,ve used these also just chopped them off old psus when rebuilding DVRS at work.

Dan

[Adrian]

i have an emptyvodka bottle for oil catchment tank...(its aluminuim whichis why i got it., contents came in second!)

shower pipe to cover cables to headlamps

ice cream tub gave sva friend covers foe seat belt

part of walnut tree turned into gear knob

mahogany back of sideboard became dashboard

alarm on/off switch is boot lock

 

 

i think theres enough for a book if we all send this ideas with picures to the editer of the mag..i remember the mg owners club did a simelar thing a few years ago, i still have mine somewhere.. includes useful ideas like bleeding brakes with a lemonade bottle.

[Adrian]

nearly forgot.

plastic kitchen unit blocks for fastening worktops has become one of thoses fancy doings for keeping ht leads tidy.

[speedtripledan]

Currently using a 500ml coke bottle for radiator overflow just to see whats happening, will buy a better one at some point.

 

Dan

[Guest superspec]

Vacuum cleaner pipes for radiator pipes. plus nail varnish bottle with base removed and bonded on top of washer bottle to extend access.

Edited April 3, 2009 by superspec

[harvs]

Between my air intake and filter I'm using my wife's Tupperware mug from when she was in Guides - it's still got her name tag on it

[Guest Stuartl]

Between my air intake and filter I'm using my wife's Tupperware mug from when she was in Guides - it's still got her name tag on it

 

Thats rather sweet!