Photo: BensAutomotiveDecor/Bring a Trailer
The passion some people have for racing, cars, and engines makes them stop at nothing when turning their passion into something more tangible. Not even the idea of taking parts from a NASCAR engine and turning them into a coffee table for the living room doesn't seem too far-fetched.
If fact, if you do a quick search for "coffee table engines," for instance, the mighty Google will return impressive amounts of results, and the even more exciting bit is that most of them are for sale.
True, when it comes to most of these pieces of furniture, if they can be called that, we can't say for sure if some original engine parts went into their making. In the case of the one we have here, though, the seller assures us that is, indeed, the case.
We found the coffee table waiting for a new owner on Bring a Trailer. It's not unlike many others of its kind out there, but in this case, we're told the object was put together with components that were initially installed on a Roush Yates Ford V8 engine.
That's a NASCAR powerplant that apparently was not used for racing but as a mock-up for an unnamed NASCAR team. We get no info on how the seller, BensAutomotiveDecor, got in possession of the engine parts (as you can see, with the exception of the internal bits, most of it is there).
Wrapped in silver on most of its body and black on the valve covers and pulleys, the coffee table shows the proper Roush Yates and Ford logos. Additional feet were fitted to make sure the engine sits upright on the floor, but also padded metal posts to support the glass now sitting on top of it.
Said glass comes with a cutout in the middle, through which the engine's intake manifold can stick out by over two inches (five cm) and make the entire design positively impressive-looking. The remaining piece of glass is large enough to support plenty of coffee cups, as the entire thing measures 42 inches (107 cm) long and 32 inches (81 cm) wide.
And it's quite heavy, too, as was to be expected. The listing reads the entire coffee table tips the scales at 425 pounds. That's 193 kg for the rest of the world.
The NASCAR V8 coffee table is selling out of Atascadero, California, and at the time of writing there are four days left in the bidding process. There's no reserve on the thing, and the highest someone is willing to offer at the moment is $2,000.
Chances are the selling price will go even higher, but even at the present level the Roush Yates coffee table is significantly more expensive than what else is out there.
True, when it comes to most of these pieces of furniture, if they can be called that, we can't say for sure if some original engine parts went into their making. In the case of the one we have here, though, the seller assures us that is, indeed, the case.
We found the coffee table waiting for a new owner on Bring a Trailer. It's not unlike many others of its kind out there, but in this case, we're told the object was put together with components that were initially installed on a Roush Yates Ford V8 engine.
That's a NASCAR powerplant that apparently was not used for racing but as a mock-up for an unnamed NASCAR team. We get no info on how the seller, BensAutomotiveDecor, got in possession of the engine parts (as you can see, with the exception of the internal bits, most of it is there).
Wrapped in silver on most of its body and black on the valve covers and pulleys, the coffee table shows the proper Roush Yates and Ford logos. Additional feet were fitted to make sure the engine sits upright on the floor, but also padded metal posts to support the glass now sitting on top of it.
Said glass comes with a cutout in the middle, through which the engine's intake manifold can stick out by over two inches (five cm) and make the entire design positively impressive-looking. The remaining piece of glass is large enough to support plenty of coffee cups, as the entire thing measures 42 inches (107 cm) long and 32 inches (81 cm) wide.
And it's quite heavy, too, as was to be expected. The listing reads the entire coffee table tips the scales at 425 pounds. That's 193 kg for the rest of the world.
The NASCAR V8 coffee table is selling out of Atascadero, California, and at the time of writing there are four days left in the bidding process. There's no reserve on the thing, and the highest someone is willing to offer at the moment is $2,000.
Chances are the selling price will go even higher, but even at the present level the Roush Yates coffee table is significantly more expensive than what else is out there.
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