Giant murderous half-ton car-part junkbot will hold 32 bottles of wine for you

A welder in Phoenix assembled a robot out of car and motorcycle parts that serves as a wine-rack. It weighs "Approx 1,000lbs," stands six feet high, holds 32 bottles of wine (or other beverage of choice) and is liberally wired up with glowing LEDs. Yours for a mere $7,000.00.

For the discerning individual who appreciates artwork and wine - you now have a great opportunity to meld those together into one piece of artwork that will display your bottle collection like no other wine rack. This will make you the talk of your wine club, HOA, alcoholics anonymous support group, etc...
There are only several times in one's life when one has the opportunity to purchase something that is RIDICULOUSLY COOL. This is one of those moments.
Need something unique? Sure, you could certainly go to the local Mercedes dealership and pick up a G55 or wait until next year's G63 comes out and yes, it would be unique, you'd be the talk of your friends, and ride around in style but it wouldn't be any different than the next G55 or G63 rolling around. Nooooo waaaaaaay man! Those suckers are mass produced!! You see those all over the place in Scottsdale!
What ya need is a one-off piece of artwork that you will not find anywhere else in the metropolitan area and likely - the entire state.

Half Ton Transformer-style Wine Rack made of auto transmission parts - $7000 (North Phoenix)

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Presumably shipping and installation are not included.

If they were — and it it was something that could survive reasonably outdoors (possibly have being power-washed in marine varnish) … I’m actually somewhat tempted. No way my floors would handle it, but letting it guard the back yard might be amusing.
http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

Aren’t you supposed to store wine tilted down so the cork stays moist?
- PhosPhorious
  
  How does a half ton kill-bot hold a bottle of wine? Any way he likes.
- Navin_Johnson
  
  There’s a mechanical cork moistener in its crotch area.
Navin_Johnson

Wine? Something like this should be storing 40 oz. of malt liquor. Or tall boys of cheap beer.
Chuck

“I’ve discovered your weakness, Optimus Prime. Surely, you wouldn’t lay a finger on me and let this Château Lafite come to harm, would you? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Prepare to die, Prime!”
- niktemadur
  
  That last sentence could be “Bite my shiny metal ass, Prime!”
  This is an unholy cross-breeding experiment between Bender and Mechani Kong.
Lupus_Yonderboy

This is the most hideous, useless, ridiculous, overpriced thing that I have ever wanted this much.
jwkrk

But can it open the bottle and pour the wine into a glass?

From the looks of its right arm, it probably shoots whole bottles at you, gatling gun style.
Sparrow

Keywords: …holy shit this is awesome, …1,000 pound paperweight,
relawson

OH MY GOD IT LAID AN EGG!!! IT HAS BEGUN!
http://twitter.com/anderalert Pat Eisel

Show it some respect and clear the shoes out of the picture, fer christ’s sake. This is a $7k sales pitch after all.
http://twitter.com/regularfry Alex Young

Weird. There’s a room with seven or eight of these in the Ets. Bouchaib Complexe d’Artisanat in Marrakech. Also, I love the internet. I didn’t take a photo when I was there, but this guy did: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-e/7102361977/ In fact, if you look at the back left of this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-e/6956302440/in/photostream/ you can clearly see the wine bottle holders.
Guest

BOW BEFORE MY WINE COLLECTION, PUNY EARTHLING.