Manly Memorabilia

btrostelsc wrote: If you were working on a "man cave" type decorating project, what would you think of as far as memorabilia? Obviously automotive memorabilia would come first, but what else? I don't want just auto stuff.

For an overall decorating motif for your "man cave" think Red Green !!.

In reply to DeadSkunk:

That is awesome . . . I'm stealing your idea

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Woody wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Woody wrote: How about hanging one of these?

I would turn that into a driving sim rig.

I wouldn't care what you did with it, once it was removed from my basement.

Two things... how far is this basement from Scranton, PA and... is there a fee for removing that item?

Scranton is surprisingly close to my basement. In fact, I drove farther than that to get it in the first place.

and yes, there would be a small fee involved.

For reference:

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/200x-classifieds/formula-ford-project-for-sale-or-trade/26506/page1/

We are currently setting up my office and I have just moved in my antique roll top oak desk. I have large oak bookshelves (still in storage) for my large collection of books some of which are quite rare and quite old (well over 100 years, a couple close to 200 years), I have a rifle rack that also has a bull whip hanging from it along with the rifles (there is a snub nose in the desk). I have several fossils and other artifacts scattered about, my girl friend got some Egyptian prints on papyrus that are very cool. Oh and a shelf with a couple of my fedoras sitting on it.

I need to find a better lamp though right now I just have a cheapy from Walmart because there is zero light back in that room. Oh it also has its own bathroom.

The Great Wall o' Empties (at a friend's house):

My "man cave" decor includes: half-finished bicycle builds, the Nardi steering wheel off my old Alfa, car posters, large print of James Dean and little Bastard, & a large Clash 'London Calling' poster.

gamby wrote: ...and one other wall with a neat Evan Hecox print--he does/did a lot of the art for Chocolate skateboards--I bought it (at Target) because it reminded me of skating in the streets back in the day:

You found that at Target? Rad.

In reply to DeadSkunk:

Those chairs are very cool!

Luke wrote: You found that at Target? Rad.

Yeah--it was part of their "dorm room" line of stuff a few years ago. I saw it and instantly needed it. It had the skate aesthetic and then I looked on the back to see who did it--sure enough...

There was a photo a while back in Classic Motorsports of a guy that put a Triumph Spitfire front end over his garage pedestrian door entrance as a rain block. Even had a cool light in it.

Creative indoor auto lighting?

Dan

914Driver wrote: Gotta have beer poster.

I would turn THIS into a driving sim rig.

DeadSkunk wrote: I'd love to have something like Woody's chassis and body just to stand in the corner, or hang on a wall.

um.... naw, forget it, its too easy....

there like three pages here and no one mentions a keg-orator??? thats art , and craft as well...

my |"cave" holds cars, engines, tool boxes and tower of tires are my art sculptures, and a few related car adds on what little wall space is left... that is when there arent laundry baskets cluttering it up...

Any man cave worth it's salt should have a Wall of Shame! Collect parts that you're really well and truly killed...pistons with valves embedded in them, interestingly "S" shaped rods, catastrophic Kool-Aide moment blocks, crank "kits", tire-walled fenders, anything hideously mangled, and mount 'em like a proper taxidermist. For a real touch of class, you could add some nice plaques describing the kills and pictures of the debris field.

If you have a completely scattered motor, make an end table diorama out of it with the parts you could sweep up in nice action poses, natural history museum-style.

Anyone with enough $$ can buy a coffee table made from a replica of some gorgeous Italian V-12, but how many guys have a coffee table made from an "insert make and model of motor you've grenaded here" which you killed by "insert hideous motor-killing abuse here" on XX/XX/XXXX?

Work with what you have first, then add things you want to complete "your" look.

A previous iteration of my cave had a "Wall of (Dubious) Fame", with a lot of my autocross trophies, vintage race posters, a couple of framed (unopened and unplayed) classic rock albums, and pics I took at various races.