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A decorative shaped hardware tray in the form of a vehicle is provided and is designed to easily organize various hardware parts removed from a vehicle being worked on. The car-shaped hardware tray includes a base and a cover and the base includes a plurality of compartments for storing hardware. Th

A decorative shaped hardware tray in the form of a vehicle is provided and is designed to easily organize various hardware parts removed from a vehicle being worked on. The car-shaped hardware tray includes a base and a cover and the base includes a plurality of compartments for storing hardware. The location of each compartment within the tray matches the location of an actual vehicle from which the hardware is taken. In this way, when a user removes hardware from a vehicle being repaired, the user places the hardware in the compartment that corresponds to the part being repaired on the vehicle.

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1. A car-shaped hardware tray comprising: a hollow base in the shape of a bottom portion of a car in that the hollow base includes a first front bumper portion, a first rear bumper portion, a set of four bottom tire portions, and a first main body portion; anda cover that is pivotally attached to th

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A car-shaped hardware tray comprising: a hollow base in the shape of a bottom portion of a car in that the hollow base includes a first front bumper portion, a first rear bumper portion, a set of four bottom tire portions, and a first main body portion; anda cover that is pivotally attached to the hollow base, the cover having a shape in a form of a top portion of the car and the shape of the cover is complementary to the shape of the hollow base and includes a second front bumper portion, a second rear bumper portion, a set of four upper tire portions, and a second main body portion;wherein the hollow base further includes a plurality of upstanding walls that define a plurality of individual separated interior compartments for receiving hardware and an underside of the cover includes a plurality of ribs that complement and seat against the plurality of upstanding walls when the cover is in a closed position;wherein each of the bottom tire portions extends outwardly from the first main body portion and comprises a receptacle that has a hollow interior storage area that comprises one of the plurality of interior compartments and is defined by sides and a floor and each of the upper tire portions extends outwardly from the second main body portion;wherein each of the plurality of interior compartments is positioned in the hollow base so that the plurality of interior compartments correspond to different parts of the car and is for placement of hardware that is taken from the corresponding matching part of the car. 2. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein the first front bumper portion extends across an entire first end of the hollow base; the first rear bumper portion extends across an entire second end of the hollow base; the second front bumper portion extends across an entire first end of the cover and the second rear bumper portion extends across an entire second end of the cover, wherein the first front bumper portion has a hollow interior storage space that comprises one of the plurality of interior compartments and the second front bumper portion has a hollow interior storage space that comprises one of the plurality of the interior compartments, wherein the first front bumper portion and the first rear bumper portion have greater interior storage areas than the other interior compartments. 3. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein the hollow base includes a first set of interior compartments between two of the bottom tire portions that represent rear tires and the hollow base includes a second set of interior compartments between two of the bottom tire portions that represent front tires. 4. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 3, wherein the first set of interior compartments are labeled as a rear left quarter panel, a trunk, and a rear right quarter panel and are configured for receiving hardware from a rear left quarter panel, a trunk, and a rear right quarter panel, respectively, of a car, wherein a first common wall is shared between the rear left quarter panel and one bottom tire portion and a second common wall is shared between the rear right quarter panel and another bottom tire portion. 5. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 3, wherein the second set of interior compartments are labeled as a front left quarter panel, a hood, and a front right quarter panel and are configured for receiving hardware from a front left quarter panel, a hood, and a front right quarter panel, respectively, of a car. 6. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 3, wherein the hollow base includes a third set of interior compartments located between the first and second sets of interior compartments, the third set of interior compartments being labeled as a left front door, a left rear door, roof flooring, a right front door, a right rear door and being configured for receiving hardware from a left front door, a left rear door, roof flooring, a right front door, a right rear door, respectively, of a car. 7. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein a first hinge is disposed between one bottom tire portion on a first side of the hollow base and the corresponding one upper tire portion along a first side of the cover and a second hinge is disposed between the other bottom tire portion on the first side of the hollow base and the corresponding other upper tire portion along the first side of the cover. 8. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein an outer peripheral wall of the hollow base includes a groove that receives a peripheral edge of the cover. 9. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the cover includes a pivotable handle. 10. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein each interior compartment includes a label disposed therein that identifies the interior compartment by name. 11. The car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1, wherein the plurality of interior compartments includes three of more different sized interior compartments. 12. A method for holding hardware removed from a car comprising the steps of: providing the car-shaped hardware tray of claim 1;opening the car-shaped hardware tray;removing the hardware from a first location on the car and inserting the removed hardware into one of the plurality of interior compartments that occupies a location in the car-shaped hardware tray that mirrors the first location on the car.