The steel" scissors" made good robot arms for me in a display. I think I got them out of a pile of ashes after someone had burnt the chair.
I saved the leather-like covering from what had once been an expensive hide-a-bed couch. It was used to cover a sheet metal hog I built. I put casters under it's 4 legs. One quiet Sunday afternoon as a woman Harley rider pulled up to the house I pushed this "Hog" out to run beside of her "Hog" and for a few precious seconds she thought it was real! Reacting as such in front of her Biker friends!
The Hog I built also had a metal circle neat it's curly tail, when pulled his head would go up and down. The face and head was a latex hog mask i sculpted from "scratch".
The whole hoggy-creature looks pretty bad now after being outdoors for 16? years.