mercrocker Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Went to a collectors fair today. Full of this shit. Chalk-painted 1950s sideboards. Some wanky table lamp thing with a Villiers crankcase cover. A kitchen dinette thing made out of some council granny bars. Fucking steam punks and hipsters cannibalising stereo-grams and sewing machines for, what, I don't even fucking know what they have made FFS. I just know its all about two hundred nicker. Glad I filled my house up with proper stuff before they got it all. Cunts. Dick Longbridge, Junkman, Vince70 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 This is my mate's office chair, a decommissioned ejector seat Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk saucedoctor, John F, anonymous user and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 This is my mate's office chair, a decommissioned ejector seat Sent from my SM-N910F using Tapatalk now I love that, does that make me a bad person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 See, that, I get...No problem. I had a garden seat once made out of a Zodiac front bench. Well, it wasn't MADE from it - it WAS once, just mounted on a couple of wooden blocks and wedged against the back wall of the house. No fannying about. Its the upcycle shit that does me in. AND the price. But most of all the twunts who buy it. saucedoctor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 THAT. Can ALL get in the fucking sea. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Bloke turns some old car parts into decoration and functional items for the house.Is really pleased with the results so posts them on AUTOSHITE to much admiration (there's a thread on the other side). Bloke then decides to see if he can make some money out of it.Spends days on each unique piece so prices appropriately (doesn't want to mug himself off, become a wage slave in a race to the bottom who's only relief is moaning on the GOM thread). Comes back to autoshite to thank all for the support and kind words that encouraged him to make this new venture but.... Gets called a cunt, compared to Harry Enfield and told he's ruining it for everyone else. Cheggers and hauserplenty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauserplenty Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 This place ain't what it used to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laser wheels Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Bloke turns some old car parts into decoration and functional items for the house.Is really pleased with the results so posts them on AUTOSHITE to much admiration (there's a thread on the other side). Bloke then decides to see if he can make some money out of it.Spends days on each unique piece so prices appropriately (doesn't want to mug himself off, become a wage slave in a race to the bottom who's only relief is moaning on the GOM thread). Comes back to autoshite to thank all for the support and kind words that encouraged him to make this new venture but.... Gets called a cunt, compared to Harry Enfield and told he's ruining it for everyone else. Thing is, though, there is a fine line between what you are describing and being a chancing piss-taker. DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laser wheels Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Don't hate the player, chaps - hate the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laser wheels Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Actually, no, hate the player, too. fantasio and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Dunno if my Calibra sofa is classified as 'upcycling', but I've had it for about 5 years now & haven't tried to make £squillions out of it... Reclining feature: Pillock, laser wheels, oldcars and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Furious Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 A few years ago somebody on a Honda FB page I frequent created this absolute masterpiece, and he was quite proud of his achievement I mean, just take a moment to breathe in its magnificence. He was offering to make more for anyone that was interested, I declined the opportunity at that time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Some folk have more money than sense... For a lot of people that is still true even when they are flat broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 A few years ago somebody on a Honda FB page I frequent created this absolute masterpiece, and he was quite proud of his achievement I mean, just take a moment to breathe in its magnificence. He was offering to make more for anyone that was interested, I declined the opportunity at that time It looks like someone has pissed themselves with excitement in it. Repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I'm not totally innocent in this I actually sold about 10-12 car seats converted into desk chairs. I stopped doing it as I didn't have enough time to build them (I had a good few orders) and weld up rusty old crock at the same time.I've got a Bentley Continental GT interior that's been sitting for about 2 years I'll get around to doing in about 2034 Lacquer Peel, saucedoctor, andrew e and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 And how much did you charge for these office chairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 They're quite classy cort16, is the second last one from an XM? John F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Yep - assuming they're not top-heavy they're much better than conventional office chairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 They're quite classy cort16, is the second last one from an XM? Yes it's an XM. I think it's my favourite one as the seat looks great and the base my mate rescued from a skip at the school his wife worked at and was really good quality.I had a massive war getting all the electric seat gubbins out of it as it weighed more than the seat. I normally charged between £100 - £150 depending on the seat. It cost about 50 quid for the bases and the parts I used to build the mounts. Seats normally cost between £30-£60 and they took me 3-4 hours to build so notfortunes to be made plus couriering them is a pain in the arse!The Ferrari one's cost more obviously. Lacquer Peel and anonymous user 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Is a car seat any good as an office seat? surely by the time you are sat at 'desk height' the angle of the bit you sit on is all wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 tbh they're okay but not brilliant. The bases I had allowed the base to tilt so you could adjust them to suit a bit better but they don't have a lot of lower back support.The one I've got at home is built of a starion turbo seat and I've used that for years with no ill effect. The biggest problem I had was with height. The height of the seat base is much bigger than an office chair so when you mount it on a seat base then add a mounting bracket it pushes the height up quite a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Christ, I was expecting 3 times that price. If you hadn't just explained your lack of time I'd be commissioning one. cort16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 In all honesty I can't see what all the big wooohoo is all about. If folk want to pay big prices for old unwanted tat that's their choice. I think anyone would do the same. I know if I could sell something for a grand that owed me a tenner i bloody would. While silly buggers are daft enough to pay 2k for a sanded off wardrobe then pastel painted them folk will keep doing it. anonymous user, Justin Case, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I have (purely for storage) the front bench seat from my Chevy and two seats from a BM convertible in my conservatory - but they aren't being upcycled as the will be going in cars when I get a round tuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Wonder how much I could get for my woodworm-riddled Dansette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 The only real hipster BS like that that annoys me is bending old vinyl into ornaments. They won't be bothered if its rare or in good condition, just get it bent into an ashtray that can be sold at a market for a tenner. mercrocker and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Station Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Does anyone remember that seat the salvager made out of a fiat or Renault front end. It looked horrible. You sat on the curved metal bonnet. DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebullet Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I keep seeing this shit and part of me thinks 'hey I can paint things really badly', but then I stop and think 'but surely nobody is actually stupid enough to pay that'. There's 3 quite nice wooden chairs outside the charity shop at £5 each. Just maybe I'll gamble on fucking one up and see what happens. On a similar theme, a local faceache group had some mong who'd chopped the front off a corsa C and banged it on a bed. Classy stuff. It wasn't this one but looked equally shit: andrew e and cort16 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Was that picture taken in Billy's house? vulgalour, andrew e, sporty-shite and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Is a car seat any good as an office seat? surely by the time you are sat at 'desk height' the angle of the bit you sit on is all wrong.I think it would be great. Anyone gets to close, deploy side airbag. Job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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