 1.Meet the man who turns scrapped car parts into sculptures worth thousands of pounds. Australian artist James Corbett, 46, creates these sculptures using old car parts salvaged from scrap yards  2.His sculptures sell for thousands - one piece, a ram made out of spark plugs, has already sold for a whopping £14,000  3.His sculptures are made from gears, radiators, spark plugs and exhausts - anything the artist can get his hands on  4.After weeks spent searching for the right parts, James meticulously cleans each part and welds them together  5.He said: "I was working at a wrecking yard and a guy I know who races in stock cars showed me a trophy he had won that was made of car gear sticks. I looked at it and thought that I could do a much better job so began making my own sculptures"
Tags: Sculptures, Scrap, Car, Parts, Australian, Artist, James Corbett.
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