captainkawasaki

The takeoffs from my vette were so big and neat looking I hated to just toss 'em. So I made this table/chair thingie for ruminating about how that bolt/nut/washer/wrench/small animal could be lost in the engine compartment. Perfect for deciding what to mod next or wondering how I got myself into this mess.
Modeled by my daughter:

Modeled and beer approved by the world renowned captainkawasaki himself and his lovely wife:

JrRifleCoach

Recycling at its finest

hep1966

Neat idea. Those tires are better than what's on my car.....

captainkawasaki

They were a mixed set, problem is that the newest two tires were still 8 years old. The cheapskate in kept saying "look at all the tread left..........". Much like my new brake pads, the difference is astounding. Burnouts were smokeless tire skipping/hopping affairs, now they are shrieking smoking rounds of awesomeness.

FAUEE

That's awesome, how did you build them?

Makes me wish I had saved the big 325s from my GS.

3JsVette

Very

ghoastrider1

mine too BTW, a red headed wife..red heads are rare..less than 2% of the worlds Popu. has red hair. When I had hair, it was red.

captainkawasaki

She's true to the stereotype--feisty and firey! We'll be married 20 years in January.

captainkawasaki

Easy--I set the four tires together, three on the ground in a triangle and one on top for the table. Then I drilled holes in 'em and ran a bolt with a big fender washer on each side through. Like so:

But then I found the bottom was too floppy, the tires wanted to roll when you sat on them. So I stopped by my local motorcycle shop and asked for a used small tire. They pointed out back to a big ol' pile of used tires and told me to have at it. I picked out a sportbike front tire. Stuck it in between everything on the ground, drilled holes through and bolted it up. Like so:

I cut a piece of junk plywood I had laying around into a circle, and keeping with the car/tire theme sprayed it with rubberized undercoating.

I weigh about 235 and I bend the tire a little when I sit on mine. Tire still takes my full weight without any problems though, just a divot on the top. My wife and kids can sit on their tires without them bending at all. It's a neat addition and generated a lot of conversation at our party. It was supposed to be for my garage but it ended up in the back yard by the chiminea and the hammock.

Tommycourt

Good idea and that's a nice looking family you have. You should be proud of yourself in many ways.!!!!!!