50 Ideas For Car Themed Boys Rooms

Decorating a boys room can be out-of-the-box fun since it allows you to use decorative pieces that wouldn't work in most other rooms of your home. For instance - car tires made into a bed side table work in this kids room.  I hope all of the 50 ideas inspires you to do something creative for your little or big guy! Nascar theme bedroom

Classic boys room with a transportation theme. The rooms focal point is a pedal push car. Also, liking the hub caps hung as art above the beds. Paint colors are Sherwin-Williams - Red Bay (SW 6321), Iron Ore (SW 7069), Extra White (SW 7006). Image from here.

 Recycled tires turned into stools or side table.

 Industrial shelves are an inexpensive solution to shelving in a car or industrial theme room. I love the grease stains on the wall and all the hubcaps.

 How awesome is this filling station motor oil dresser?

Painted dresser with real working headlights.  Love how talented this couple is.

Car themed room for an older child.

 Sophisticated boys car theme room.

 LOVING the cars repurposed into beds! This room (and the following 4 images) are from the V-8 hotel in Stuttgart, Germany. The rooms are designed to represent a gas station,  car wash, drive-in and garage. All images by Frank Hoppe.

Diamond Plate Wall Border can be purchased on rolls. Doesn't this add the perfect accent for a car themed room?

Grunge Wall Decal 

Have a lamp sitting around gathering dust? Restyle it! This car lamp is a quick and easy restyling project.

Vintage car nursery.

Tone on tone striped walls are a great background for hubcap wall art.

 Vintage theme race car room featured here.

Recreate a vintage gas pump sign for the fraction of the cost of an antique one.

Progress

Here are a couple more pics of our B-pillar-kill-switch-box:

Paul's bondo work keeps everyone guessing
where factory  Toyota stops and MRolla begins.

I really like Paul's bending and shaping work.

Paul and Will have been getting the spare engine rebuilt and it's nearly ready. It's going to live in the DOT.MATRIX for a few weeks to break it in before Infineon, where hopefully it will just stay in the back of the truck.

You can learn a lot from car guys, even ones that collect Lancias, in Pennsylvania... cool story from Car and Driver via the Vintage Racing League

I had no idea so many parts were the same in Ferraris and Lancias of the 60's

Mike Kristick: "The Lancia people tell me not to sell any tool kits to Ferrari guys. They’re the same pieces as Ferrari tool kits, but they keep telling me that the Ferrari guys will pay three times as much. The fuel pump for a Lancia Flaminia is the same as a Ferrari’s; the Fulvia ignition is the same as a Ferrari’s. The Ferrari parts guys buy up all of the Lancia parts and jack up the prices to the Ferrari guys."

What began as a search for parts for the Fulvia has become, three decades later, what may be the largest inventory of salvaged and new-old-stock (NOS) Lancia parts on the continent.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/ancient-grease-lancia-life-support-feature?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+caranddriver%2Fblog+%28Car+and+Driver%29

The first car into Sau Paulo (St Paul) Brazil was a French car, a Motobloc

found with the story at http://antigosverdeamarelo.blogspot.com/2012/01/motobloc-1908-sao-paulo-santos.html

For perspective on the year 1908, remember that there were several long distance trial runs happening around the world by car companies that were proving the durability of their cars, and by drivers that were making personal achievements. Like the 1908 New York to Paris race http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20York%20to%20Paris%20race

Gas prices

I was listening to an XM station and they were reading a letter from a cross country driver, who said that the price was 3.04 in New Mexico, but 4.49 in New York.

Seems like the same thing I found the last time I was driving long distance.

There are several (I think 5) refineries in New Mexico around Roswell, and oil fields there too, that's part of why they have it soooo cheap. New York City? Well, what isn't the highest priced in the nation if not things bought in New York, the culture there priced itself into poverty and prosperity depending on if you own or rent.

Hagerty has a news letter, a magazine, and youtube shows you can subscribe to (I can recommend all but what I haven't seen yet, the tv shows)

http://pages.news.hagerty.com/page.aspx?qs=472529ec60bdf32ab21019c30dd3241c856cd0f7042216e707ec210e4c7e36af1fa01aac56a370fe05b3eb054d51c0b8828b00b790bedb171acdc048bd9218816b2db67b7aba4802ec1b7ebfe97b364ca466b3be1d9b31114bf4c4b4e9508446a7522bba6cac61d38bab7d5a3a5135b9b995f54cb02ecd8240bc1eaaef4f8ca7eb0741f708eb63d0ee50afe057effe7e78ac0ef06906f307d6c17b96a222e32e497844058564047968dfc7ddb2bf3118b45d2c76d805fcbdd2666ec4ad68e5029919d402e6684f76

Ridiculously long isn't it!?

Road trains and worlds longest trucks

thanks Roy!