jules Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 I have been accumulating bits to build a V8 coffee table an have lost intrest I have a sheet of glass about 20mm thick 1200x1600 ish and two old V8's SWMBO is not keen and wants me to sell it any thoughts Any thoughts people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantd5 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Typical... And Typical..... Men's voices are lost. I miss the Victorian times.... When the man was the man woth bin M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 I have a sheet of glass about 20mm thick 1200x1600 ish and two old V8's Surely it's finished then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Who would want a V8 coffee table - damn thing would drink a gallon of coffee every 5 minutes even if it didn't move Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Brock Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Sounds like the sort of Glass Nige would like ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 The two engine have been sat in my garden for ten years so need a clean up and pistons removing and honing the boars will clean them up. The glass is a price of structural glass and is too big for just one engine to support. The glass also has two drill hole in and a 150 shamfered corner which I'm not sure if much can be done about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmgemini Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Not a Cosworth then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reads90 Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 SWMBO is not keen and wants me to sell it any thoughts Any thoughts people Sell the misses And build the table Well you asked for thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 The main thug is even if I get time to do it, it's too big for the lounge. Also the glass takes two people to lift it's structural glass at least that would put a stop to me worrying about my dog standing on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Mmmmmm Megasquirted V8 Coffee Table with switchable tables for Decaf or Caf Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Train Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I have been accumulating bits to build a V8 coffee table an have lost intrest I have a sheet of glass about 20mm thick 1200x1600 ish and two old V8's I think there is your problem. Get a smaller bit of glass and just clean up one engine then you have a V8 coffee table. Half the time, half the space, half the agro from SWMBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobtail84 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 I've asked SWMBO if I can have a V8 coffee table and she was a little, shall we say, reticent.... can't see why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbocharger Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Cut the glass in two, trim the corners, flog one V8 & glass on ebay as "Top Gear style" for £££ and you can buy her flowers to put on the other new table in your living room. Simples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 "reticent...." Hmmm Is that a posh word for what mine said when suggested ? "In your dreams and over my dead body sonny jim" ....was the longer version from my SWMBO "So,..... its a maybe then luv ? " Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 a ready made example on ebay right now V8 Engine Coffee Table let SWMBO'd see it & then see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Or show her the one on ebay for £400 and say yours is a test to see if you can make them to sell ........ think of all the shoes she could buy with the profit from those ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 I'm more intrested in the fact that there is a V8 for sale as a coffee table dona with 10 bids and 7days to go and I have two sat in the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hiatt Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Come on Jules, man up. Pay for a pamper weekend at a Health spa for SWMBO Built the table and rag bolt it to the living room floor. Weld the nuts in case you bottle it before she comes back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 All ok until the 2nd sentence, ........ he won't understand that.... I promise you Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Jules, find your old freelander racer, and tell her you're building the coffee table to fund it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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