Top 12 Designs From Recycled Car Parts (SUPER GALLERY) Edit

Before sending your car to the junkyard, you might want to reconsider salvaging some of the parts. The following 12 pieces of Trend Candy illustrate the recycled designs that can be created with old car parts.

Features is jewelery, fashion and home furnishing made from recycled tires, box springs, seatbelts, upholstery, hubcaps and more.

Instruments Made of Car Parts - Car Music Project for Ford (VIDEO)

Recycling has spurred on such a huge movement for creative projects like these instruments made of old car parts. The video is from the British Ford commercial we posted last week which featured an entire orchestra made of pieces of a Ford Focus backed up singer, Alesha Dixon. The music they are a… [More]

A Bed with Shock Absorbers - Sleep On Recycled Car Springs (GALLERY)

I recently came across this bed in a Toronto, Canada design shop. The bed isn’t all that exciting. It’s well crafted and reasonably priced at around $1400, but the obvious stand out aspect is that the bed sits on four recycled automobile springs. The shop, called UpToYou, claim that the bed offers a… [More]

BeanBag Chairs from Recycled Cars - Waste Furniture (GALLERY)

I always find it very disheartening that recycled products are mostly pretty expensive. Usually you have to pay a premium to go “green”, which both discourages and confuses me. Utilizing recycled materials should make the product cheaper not more expensive. Take these giant bean bags by Spanish com… [More]

Jewelry from Recycled Car Parts - Hi Octane Jewelry

Hi Octane Jewelry makes their accessories from recycled car parts. The pieces integrated in the jewelry have been salvaged from auto junk yards and turned into new treasures, making each piece a unique one. From the press release: [More]

Recycled Shoes - Yellow Port Shoes Made From Recycled Tires and Trucking Canvas

Yellow Port shines as an original and committed Green company. They’ve been manufacturing shoes from recycled tires and trucking canvas for years in Brazil and are finally making some inroads in Canada and the United states via Ejust Inc. If you like this concept, you’ll like the eco-friendly shoe… [More]

Leather Jackets From Vintage Carseats - Platinum Dirt VIN Jackets

These gorgeous leather jackets are perfect for auto snobs—they’re lined with salvaged leathers and fabrics from vintage car seats. The Platinum Dirt VIN Jackets are made to order and custom-fit by Dustin Page, a passionate connoisseur of cars himself. A lover of Cadillacs and Lincolns from the ‘… [More]

Eco-Friendly Sculptures – Hubcap Creatures (GALLERY)

These beautiful sculptures have charisma and character. They are designed by Ptolemy and are made from automobile hubcaps that were found lying about roadways and junk yards. Each Hubcap Creature is made from 100% recycled material and often show the scars of their previous existence, which simply… [More]

Recycled Art - Rubber Tires Sculptures as Art (GALLERY)

These sculpture are retreads of a different kind, using old tires, the artist has created something new. Artists like this need to get pumped up to do more and show the world that recycling is the “tready” thing to do. Here are some more examples of recycled art: Portraits from Recycled Junk Mail… [More]

Recycled Seatbelts as Hammocks And Pillows - Rockabye Car Parts (GALLERY)

Inghua Ting designs pillows and hammocks that are made from dead stock and recycled seat belts. These snooze-time must-haves are especially great outdoors as they are weather-resistant. Ting produces the highest quality products with minimal environmental impact.  She was drawn to the possibility o… [More]

Recycled Seatbelt Designs - Lounge Chair Saves Life

The Seatbelt lounge chair combines two life savers: seatbelts that save human lives, and product recycling which saves our planet. The chair is designed by Nuttapong Charoenkitivarakorn and created by Thai villagers who loop lengths of recycled cotton-nylon seat belts around the chairs’ plywood fra… [More]

RetroChic Automobile Furniture - 1957 Corvette Style Couch (GALLERY)

The 1957 Corvette Style Couch brings the iconic car into your living room with genuine leather seats and standard Corbin saddles. You can set a romantic mood by turning the lights off and plugging the couch into standard 110v household power for the included “undercarriage” lighting and lighting fix… [More]

Car-Inspired Furniture - Steven Heller’s Cadillac Furniture (GALLERY)

For self-confessed car freak Steve Heller, his love of 1950’s Cadillac models inspired him to thread into the sphere of furniture design. Heller has built functional art such as chests, tables, bars, entertainment units, beds and dressers from metal and wood and the result of his efforts are really … [More]