Coolest Repurposed Automotive Furniture
While there are child car seats that attach to swings sets in the home, there are no examples of car seats repurposed as glider rockers. Perhaps to people with imaginations, car seats make perfect recliner seats instead – not a glider – so nobody’s ever considered repurposing a Recaro bucket seat as a glider rocker. Still, there are plenty of people with crazy ideas about car parts out there. Here are some repurposed auto parts:
Mini-Cooper Backyard Grill
Who doesn’t want an old mini-cooper front end to use as an outdoor grill? In England, Craig White and his father made it appear that the car crashed the party at Craig’s Newark home. In fact, it went right through the fence. Commentators say these really old mini-coopers are impossible to keep running as is, so why not repurpose them as barbecues? The undersized engine compartment on the mini makes it the perfect home for charcoal briquettes and sausages, and using the hood as a grill cover is apropos because when it’s smoking, it looks like the car’s overheating. Just pop the hood and check the sausage’s progress. Don’t bring up those bugs that stuck to your car grill last summer though.
Backseat Sedan Swingset
Speaking of outdoor furniture, consider the simple playground a-frame swing set. Replace the swing-seat with the back seat of a small sedan, including the trunk, wheels and hardtop roof piece, and you’ve got a great repurposed car as lawn furniture. Now that’s a lover’s swing, and the backseat’s readily available.
Chevrolet Impala Entertainment Center
By removing the nose of a Chevy Impala and wrapping it around a low table, this entertainment center seems perfect for today’s wide-screen HD TV systems, and it makes for an inspired and colorful conversation piece too. You probably didn’t think today’s stodgy, family oriented Impalas had such potential, but guess again. This setup is perfect for game day.
Microbus Pool Table
Consider all the old VW vans for sale on Craigslist that just don’t run anymore. Have you ever read the ads? “I’m certain it will turn over and live another day?” Nobody suggests that they could be repurposed as pool tables? If they did, they could ask thousands more than they are already asking.
Mercedes Benz Office Desk
Then there’s a small group of people repurposing car interiors as office desk environments, placing round clocks in speedometer holes and using dashboard openings as pencil and scissor holders. Some people go so far as to put the front end of the auto before the dash like a grand piano. There’s no reason you can’t rev up your office space. Next, they’ll be putting wide-screen TVs in the windshield hole.
