Yesterday we stopped by Westside Auto in Steamboat Springs, CO in the hopes of having them weld up an exhaust for an ’86 Audi 4000 Quattro that had disassembled itself into three distinct pieces when I spotted this old tailgate mounted to the wall next to the entrance door and for a second wondered why it was there…
Then of course I realized that it made for a fantastic bench! Just the thing for waiting for your repair to be finished. Of course it would have been better if the ambient temperature at the time was higher than 6 degrees Fahrenheit but in the summer, it must be great. Just the thing to accessorize the cabin or backyard shed.
Now just make the lights functional, and really confuse someone at night!!:-)
Good thing it’s from an older pickup. if it was a modern one, one would need a step stool to get up in it. 🙂
+1
Ford has the option of a folding step, instead of making the damn thing lower.
haha
Yes. A female relative of mine bought one. A ford quad cab with short bed. I helped her move and saw the silly step ladder. It even has a hand rail that pops up for you to grab. And there is a backup camera. And I think the tailgate is dropped down by remote control, if I remember correctly. It goes down slowly like it has a dashpot attached to it somehow.
Pure idiocy in my opinion
There were two such pickups present to help move. I showed up with my flatbed and hauled more in one trip than the other two combined hauled in 3 trips.
Somewhere there’s a pickup truck with no tail lights that just lost 6 kegs of Blue Moon out da back.
I saw an old Jeep tailgate used as a desk/counter at a muffler shop once. It was pretty neat!
I’ve seen those tailgate benches before, but I’ve never seen one that incorporates the bed sides. That makes it even better!
This was my first thought: what a great desk.
Uh, oh…this does nothing to help the rash of tailgate thefts we’ve been seeing in the South… 🙂
I present the Scouch, made by a fellow Binder fanatic.
Just the place to relax after a long day of plowing the back 40 on the Farmall!
As a former scout owner, I’m both amazed by it, and a bit sad that there’s one fewer scouts on the road. Please tell me the rest of it was a rusted wreck.
It was last just a pile of parts salvaged from trucks that were too far gone to save. Certainly some of the parts could have lived on but he had them laying around. By too far gone to save I mean really rusted and/or busted because this guy has put quite a few trucks back on the road that most people would say were too far gone.
So tell me about the 86 Audi Quattro
It’s coming, Fred, I just got back from a few days ice-driving at Steamboat (we rented the track from Bridgestone) with a few like-minded enthusiasts and will do a write up on that along with pix and maybe even a short video of a humorous moment! The 4kq is named Gunter and has 266,000 miles on him and after the repair now sports a center muffler with a downturn just aft of it along with about 40 pounds of weight savings due to not reusing the end portions. Sounds like a NASCAR stocker!
Now that’s something I haven’t seen on the road in a while! Having had a 5000 in the family, I’ve always found the 4000 interesting in the Quattro variant.
One of my COALs was a Chevy pickup of that vintage. It got stolen during the Super Bowl a few years ago when it was recovered, about the only thing not stripped was the tailgate.
I know that generation of GM pickups is famous for rust. Maybe that is all that is left of this one.
Like the idea, not so crazy about the execution. My main gripe with most public benches is their lack of padding. If I want to sit on a flat, unyielding plank…there’s a fast food restaurant on more corners than there are corners with benches.
Picky
I sit on a cinder block or a bucket when I need to sit.
Back when I was self employed, sometimes I would return to my shop so late it wasn’t worth going home. I would just throw down a sheet of gasket material on the concrete floor and lay on that, then put a brick inside a welding glove for a pillow.
Yeah, sometimes it’s just not worth it to go home, what with the 10 mile walk being uphill both ways.
😉
I’m not sure if this is serious or a parody.
Serious, not a parody. I’ve never been one to to have a high degree of needs&wants. I still do not have air conditioning in my 100+ year old house with the original kitchen and original furnace. I keep my house 50 degrees in the winter. I still glaze my windows and scrape and paint my own house by hand with a brush about every 8 years. I still trim my trees with an antique bow saw. I never had A/C in a car until 2 years ago and I’ve never bought a brand new car.
Great example of adaptive reuse. The world need more of this type of thinking – fun and useful too.
That would make for a sturdy and cool workbench in a crowded garage.
Pretty cool. I buddy of mine’s got the nose from one of these on his garage wall:
A folding bar/table top on my shed. Trunk lid pulled off a 58 Buick Special. Holds beers just fine.
and a junkyard shot of the donor vehicle which was on the way to the crusher.
A great idea until some tool decides to steal it and put the tail gate up for sale. (along with the tail lamps).