First Hubcap of the Year
By ms dean on Apr 4, 2009 in Lost and Found
I live on 24th Avenue West, which gets a lot of traffic. Every year I find a few of these by the side of the street. Any suggestions on good uses for stray hubcaps?
By ms dean on Apr 4, 2009 in Lost and Found
I live on 24th Avenue West, which gets a lot of traffic. Every year I find a few of these by the side of the street. Any suggestions on good uses for stray hubcaps?
Wheatgrass planter.
urban armor
steel drums
UFO fakery
turtle nests
West End roulette wheel.
My college roommate and I used to use them to hide the walls.
Frisbee.
i vote for urban armor…maybe a roasting pan for this thanksgiving’s bird?
I say start nailing them to your house, and in 4 or 5 years you’ll gain a reputation among the neighborhood kids as “crazy hubcab lady.”
make a cascading water feature.
I think you should make a giant clock necklace for your flava-flav costume.
HDTV Antenna
You could make a waterphone! http://www.waterphone.com/
Make ‘em into clocks and sell ‘em on Ebay?
That’s no hubcap, that’s a portion of the circoleum steel pan unit from the music-o-matic drives on my spaceship--we always disguise our advanced technology as rusty, irrelevant accoutrements to polluting, primitive transportation so you Terrans don’t figure out the musical secrets to interstellar travel.
Just leave it on your roof--i’ll drop in to retrieve it--thanks!
Wacky Lawn Art
“Detroit sombrero”: good for spring hail storms, textile-free days, and general hatlessness.
1. Pan for gold in Lester River.
2. Anal shield (a must for any trip to Iowa these days).
3. Lightweight camping toilet.
4. Replacement for the missing hubcap on your shitty car.