Converting CARS theme cars to minifigure use . . .

[Luke Styer]

Has anyone made any sort of serious effort at converting the car models from the CARS theme to minifigure use? I realize at least one or two of the parts that came out of that theme have stated to show up elsewhere, but I was curious whether anyone had taken a larger approach. I haven't had much luck with searching since the theme name is so generic.

[Omicron]

I made a pokemon out of a Cars piece. But that's all I could get from the theme.

-Omi

[Luke Styer]

I got the Escape at Sea set on clearance the other day at WalMart thinking I could make a nice little minifig scale boat out of the ship and maybe use the wheels and tires included to give a little variety to my CITY cars which seem to all use the truck tires lately. But I'm curious whether the other car parts are salvageable.

I saw the V8 diner and I think the building itself would be good fodder for a conversion, but only at a discount, and it would be more attractive still if all those cars weren't useless to me.