Appraisal please

inski

inski

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How much do you think this is worth?

Its a garden ornament, for candles or flowers or whatever you want to stick in the rod ends. I built it.

Its all parts from a 2005 Subaru Legacy GT Turbo. Rods, rod bearings, wrist pins. The candle cups are from Monroe Salt Works, Monroe, Maine, and a double shot glass.

check out all the pictures at

http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/gg292/inski-bucket/inskiAutoArts/

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profeshunnel appraysls.

the ddt soaked appearance is spectacular, children could easily enjoy their fried brain after being near it. Like catnip.

The ungrinded welding, showing the well thought placement of rods welded at the wrong end to the crank, the extremely rare short stroke of a rod crank...so short canlt even see the throws and counterbalancers.

This increases the value to a dollar 95.

 
Its not ddt soaked! lmao

Its been outside for a couple weeks. that's what happens to cast steel and machined parts when they breath fresh air and bath in the Maine Monsoons.
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I'd be thrilled to get 95 bucks.

 
Put it on ebay with a $100 reserve- for the right audience, you might be surprised!

What a terrible fate for a 05LGT. Today yer tearing up back roads, tomorrow you're a candle stick.

 
DDT would add at least $50 to retail

garden sculpture is my g/f's business, she is a ceramic artiste and has paid the bills for many years making and selling cool stuff for ppl to personalize their back yards.

heh, this gives me a whole new take on the value of the 2 blowed up 2.5 blocks languishing under the back bench in my barn!

 
inski, your art has inspired the artist in my life. she's incorporated some subie parts into her ceramic sculpture before (using castoff 2.5 cam gears to imprit clay sutrfaces before firing) and now she's wanting me to tear apart a junk block to get them conrods...for god only knows what use.

see what u started??!!

 
tanks sergei, why the fark not?

I have some nice burnt 2.5 conrod/pistons from a motor we cooked at Rally NY, but those are historic artifacts permanently affixed to the Wall Of Shame in the shop

 
Oh! Theres so much more in the name of creativity from the Subaru junk bin.

-Back in my beginnings with Subaru there was a recall for automatic trans parking pawl rods. Thousands and thousands were replaced. Most of the originals were trashed. A few were saved, as well as a few wheel bearing bits. Those bits were put together by a mechanical artist from Maine. He built a spectacular lobster about the size of your fore arm that now resides at the Subaru of New England Technical Training School.

-Another mechanic/Artist from Maine has a wall full of Scooby art in his Blacksmithing shop. Reindeer, dogs, cats, turtles, flowers, chandeliers. He even has a dog tied to his front steps drinking from his water bowl. That dog is not from scrap but all hand forged, wicked cool build. He will be going to NYC to be on Letterman and the Today Show soon. He built the Eeppy Bird Mentos & Coke Zero Rocket Car. He's building ver.2 for the shows with Eeppy Burd and Coke and Mentos. I've got one of his Subaru Intake Valve/bearing race/flywheel ring dogs sitting on my mantle.

Junk to Gems

Trash to Treasures

Crap to Creativity

This is Maine. You see it everywhere.
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I'll probably eBay my piece, donate the money to a very good cause.

 
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