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Old 03-18-2015, 04:44 PM   #384 (permalink)
Sven7
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For a while I've kind of wanted to make a flower planter out of an engine block. Someone in my hometown did it and it looks pretty cool. Here's an example from the cybernets:



So the question is, will I make more money selling off the wheels, tires and parts, and turning the engine into a planter?

Seems like a fun tribute to my hypermiling days, though I wonder if I would have more fun and/or money parting the car entirely and pulling apart a $200 Dakota for its engine instead. Surely a V8 would look better as a planter. Maybe even a V6.

A RWD transmission would look cool if it were stood upright and the bell housing used as a planter. Buy a broken truck and use every part of the bison?
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