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Junkyard Scooter

By Robert Birming in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle on Jan 8, 2008 at 9:33 am


The “Quicksilver” is a retro-future scooter made from appliances and scrap metal.

I am a metal sculptor, and have absolutely no experience with scooters at all. What follows in this instructable is my experience of stripping down a mid 1980’s Honda elite 125cc scooter, and totally redesigning it with aluminum scrap metal. For the curious, please visit my web site: www.nemomatic.com to get a look at my other work and see how this beast fits into the bigger picture.

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  1. todayinart.com
    Jan 8th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    This thing is so nice!

  2. Tempscire
    Jan 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    It's nifty, but it doesn't look especially more "retro" than any other scooter/moped things I've seen.

  3. Pony
    Jan 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Not sure why you would do that. I own a Honda Elite 250cc and it kicks!! Honda stopped shipping +200 cc scooters to Canada in the late 80s so it is also kind of rare.

    This bike is nice, but weighs more than the original fiberglass. With one person I would guess top speed 70 clicks. Hard to compete with traffic at those speeds. Nice idea though.

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