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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

311. Scooter Skull


Vespa Scooter Cut with Oxyacetylene Torch. Thanks to my friend Dave for inviting me to the garage where he works repairing scooters for Scoot Richmond and teaching me how to use the cutting torch! This was a rusted out body that had been sitting on the repair shelf for a while. We returned it to the shelf to photograph and it's still there now! Here's a detail view:

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12 comments:

  1. b13April 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM

    You have GOT to now rebuild that bad boy and get it roadworthy!

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  2. TatmanApril 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM

    Hell yeah! That's the baddest motor scooter on the planet. Grrrrrr!

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  3. lisaApril 10, 2008 at 8:07 AM

    bad ass!
    aren't cutting torches a blast?

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  4. The Lone Beader®April 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM

    Awesome!

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  5. TimApril 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM

    I love the ones that come out of left-field like this.

    Fix it up, give it headlight eyes, and it would be the perfect ride for today's urban-hipster-metalhead.

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  6. katillac deVilleApril 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM

    From the first picture, I thought it was done using an airbrush, but then I read the description. You must have used a smoky setting to do the shadowing. Serious coolness, Noah! The teeth/mouth part is the icing on the cake.

    I'm with Tim on fixing it up, with lights in the eye sockets. If the rest of the frame isn't salvageable, it should at least be displayed as the work of art it is. It would look really cool with the eyes backlit with a low-intensity EL panel.

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  7. MonkeyGurrrrrlApril 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM

    a skully vespa. Talk about your absurdly opposite contradictions!

    :)

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  8. fabulous hereticApril 10, 2008 at 7:27 PM

    Restoration is a great idea, or at least auction it off on the Skulladay eBay site.

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  9. Jessica at BwlchyrhydApril 11, 2008 at 5:18 AM

    Poor little scooter... I miss mine!

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  10. Suzanne DargieApril 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM

    That looks SOOOOO CREEPY!!!

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  11. UnknownApril 11, 2008 at 11:32 PM

    Finally my two interests merge! This would make a great installation outside of Scoot Richmond (excellent shop I've heard), but there is not enough frame integrety to make it road worthy again. I'm off to share this with my scooter groups!
    ~3 Vespa house & daily skull-a-day fan

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  12. jApril 13, 2008 at 6:13 PM

    love the metal work ones!
    this is very cool!

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