Auto Parts Sculpture
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How The Auto Parts Sculpture Began
Australian James Corbett was working in a warehouse of scrap, and a guy he knows, who races stock cars, showed him a Trophy winner, "Fact with levers of change." "I looked at it and I thought that I could do a much better job so I started making my own sculptures," said James. It did not take long before his works got noticed, and for his dreams to come into reality. The 46-year-old Australian artist creates these sculptures, worth thousands of dollars, using salvaged old car parts. Parts from junked 1950's to 1960's French and British cars are James' favorites to retrieve. 
After spending weeks dedicated to locate suitable pieces, James meticulously cleans every part and welds them together. His sculptures are made of gears, spark plugs, exhausts, radiators, anything that the artist can salvage. On average, each piece takes a little over two weeks of work, but the larger pieces can take much longer. James says that welding of the parts, and the construction of the sculpture is not what consumes most time of the artist. Often the longest part of the process is finding old parts suitable for sculpture. 
One of the pieces, a ram made from spark plugs, sold for a whopping $23,000 [below]
On this page are some of the items fabricated from junked 1950 and 1960 automobile parts by the Australian artist.
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