An Australian artist named James Corbett creates sculptures worth thousands of dollars by welding together salvaged car parts from the 1950s and 1960s. Corbett spends weeks locating and cleaning suitable parts before meticulously welding them together into sculptures. One of Corbett's sculptures of spark plugs sold for $23,000. Corbett's sculptures can take over two weeks to complete and are made from various car parts like gears, exhaust parts, and radiators.

1. Each item pictured was fabricated from junk 1950
and 1960 automobile parts by a gentleman in Australia.
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2. This is the man
that converts parts
of cars scrapped
sculptures
worth thousands
of dollars. The
Australian artist
James Corbett,
46-year-old creates
these sculptures
using salvaged old
car parts.

3. One of the pieces,
a ram of spark
plugs, sold for a
whopping
$23,000.

4. His sculptures are
made of gears,
spark plugs,
exhaust parts,
radiator, anything
that the artist can
achieve.

5. After spending weeks dedicated to locate suitable pieces,
James meticulously cleans every part and welds them together.

6. He said: "I was working in a warehouse of scrap and type I know, that ran stock car
races. They showed me 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.”

7. "After a period of
time, people
began to become
more and more
into what I was
doing and now
what I do wins
me a life, it is a
dream come
reality."

8. "On average, each
piece takes a little
over two weeks of
work, but the
larger pieces can
take much longer”,
he says.

9. Corbett lives in
Ningi,
Queensland,
Australia with his
wife Jodie.

10. Sculptures using pieces of old cars; the French
and British cars are James’ favorites to retrieve.

11. James says that welding and the sculpture of the parts is not the part that consumes the
most time of the artist. "Often the longest part of the process is finding the old parts that
are suitable for sculpture."

12. The sculptor is exhibiting his work in the Gallery.

13. "My two favorite pieces I've created for this
exhibition are the ram and the wild boar,” he says.