The Slot Car Wall Sculpture by Pete Nidzgorski

This is great. Since we last featured Pete for his beautiful storage cabinet design, he's been hard at work dreaming up new cool stuff...

What you see above is his Slot Car Wall Sculpture which features an old slot car set:

Old HO Slot Cars and Track are easily found online. This set up [about half of the track I got] cost me around $100. Track layouts are practically infinite.

Check out Pete's site and all the pics here. (Thanks, Pete!)

Comments (16)

Anyone know where the white stool (with laptop) is from?

posted by enb on March 5th 2008 at 7:01am
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LOVE IT! so fun and cool and quirky and visually-satisfying.

posted by *heather leaf* on March 5th 2008 at 7:05am
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Better than much modern art out there.

I love how it is the symbol for infinity (hope and promise) and yet the cars just race endlessly (futility) since there is no finish line.

Surprisingly thought provoking from such a humble source. Very very cool.

posted by patrick (the other one) on March 5th 2008 at 7:20am
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Very cool, I actually built a cabinet based on his design. Just the 8 or the infinity symbol by itself make a great graphic element. Then you have the happy little surprise of the cars and it being a track. Nice work

posted by plastolux on March 5th 2008 at 7:37am
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Very cool...but the cars are in the same slot!

posted by AlmostAD on March 5th 2008 at 7:43am
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I must just not be cultured enough to appreciate this....
yes, I could have just kept that to myself...but I feel that it needed to be said.

posted by jamilkb on March 5th 2008 at 7:54am
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My childhood! On a wall! Brilliant!

posted by wiscompton on March 5th 2008 at 8:09am
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brilliant!

posted by luckysquid on March 5th 2008 at 8:10am
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AlmostAD I just noticed that too-- those things are totally going to crash, and it'll be awesome.

posted by kvh on March 5th 2008 at 11:43am
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I love it. Let me start digging through my brother's Hot Wheel stash!!!

posted by umeboshi on March 5th 2008 at 4:45pm
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Pete, I think I will do this on one of my walls. Conceptually brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing the idea.

posted by lightspeed on March 5th 2008 at 8:37pm
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What a great idea! Love it! By the way...I love that pendant lamp! Where did you get that?

posted by suzy8track on March 6th 2008 at 10:58am
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Stool is vintage / one of two via eBay
Lamp is from Sunami Flatlights:
> http://www.sunami.se/index2.html mods
Clock is handcut foamcore with wood decal:
> http://x818.com/junk/asterisklores.jpg
The cars ARE MISTAKENLY on the same track, the lesson:
> Don't rush the photo shoot
Thanks.

posted by peteski on March 7th 2008 at 9:16am
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Thanks for the info Pete! I'm definitely going to look into getting one!

posted by suzy8track on March 7th 2008 at 1:56pm
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I have to say that as a car guy and someone who loves good design, this is frickin' awesome!

I wonder if I can convince me wife one of our blank walls deserves this treatment :)

posted by matsayswhat on December 5th 2008 at 12:15pm
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Hmmm... I have an old Train Set sitting in a box in my garage gathering dust. Maybe I can display it like this.

posted by calkite7 on December 5th 2008 at 6:47pm
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