Ex-F1 Mechanic Alastair Gibson brings racing materials to fish sculptures. Wait, wha?
Alistair Gibson's sculptures from F1 car parts - Click above for a gallery of images
Alistair Gibson spent 22 years in Formula 1 paddocks as a mechanic with teams like Benetton and BAR Honda. With decades of carbon fiber and shiny bits swimming in his head, it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise that after leaving pit lane he has begun fabricating motorsports-influenced sculptures of fish.
Each fish has a body in carbon fiber and comes with a spec sheet detailing the specific parts added to it. The brown trout you see above has a tail fin made of floor stays and comes mounted on a plank from the underside of Jensen Button's 2006 Hungarian GP-winning car. The hammerhead shark has eyes from rear wheel tether gearbox side shrouds, and comes mounted on a gearbox pull rod – also from the 2006 Hungarian GP car.
There are no prices listed, but if you add Formula 1 pedigree, carbon fiber fabrication, F1 chassis parts, and the word "art," well, phrases like "their weight in gold" come to mind. If you're not in the art market right now, you can check out the gallery of sculptures, including a brown trout, hammerhead shark, mackerel, mako shark, and piranha, below.
Gallery: Alistair Gibson Sculptures
[Source: Carbon Art via Pistonheads]
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MangustaAdriano 7:39PM (4/22/2009)
COOL!
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JD 7:44PM (4/22/2009)
At first glance, I thought this guy was loosing it but upon closer inspection, the models look terrific!
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Christian de Saint Preux 7:49PM (4/22/2009)
They definitely do look great!!!!
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Shiftright 7:50PM (4/22/2009)
Stunning. I'll take the hammer head shark to hang over my flat screen please.
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Cheese 7:55PM (4/22/2009)
Reminds me of Calder's Mobiles.
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2004m3driver 8:07PM (4/22/2009)
What is that coming this way a Shark? OH ***t!!! Its carbonfiber shark! hopefully it doesn't have a lazer too.
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imirk 8:16PM (4/22/2009)
But every animal deserves a hot meal!
turbo-quattro 8:25PM (4/22/2009)
Wow the artist did an amazing job on these! Beautifully constructed. Too bad they probably cost a fortune.
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Nick 9:04PM (4/22/2009)
Top notch craftsmanship, I love it.
Would be even cooler if they contained mechanisms and moved (maybe even swim) !
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fixitfixitstop 9:02PM (4/22/2009)
Does it sing Daft Punk songs?
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ImSteevin 9:57PM (4/22/2009)
There was a great article about these in a past issue of Top Gear; I believe it was the one with the Veyrons on the cover. They do cost thousands of dollars each I believe :-(
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tankd0g 11:17PM (4/22/2009)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Brawn's interpretation of the 2012 F1 rules.
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Chris 1:07AM (4/23/2009)
As cool as this is, this is extremely old news. I first read about this in an old issue of evo magazine about a year ago. I'll have to go through them to find the correct issue #.
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010111 12:00AM (4/23/2009)
now this is the type of overpriced fish sculpture worth taking a bribe of.
the tube coordinates don't seem to list a price though.
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Ray 12:07AM (4/23/2009)
I swear I saw him give one of these to Sam Posey a few years ago.
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CarbonBlack 12:21AM (4/23/2009)
"Racing materials" can make any product better!!!
It looks really cool.
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I am Rich 1:00PM (4/23/2009)
Carbon fiber Mako? Yes, please.
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mjboyer1 12:34AM (4/24/2009)
Give me back that filet-o-fish....
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