Amazing - working 1/3-scale Ferrari . . .

[Don Vito Corleone]

Which would be no big deal, were it not for the fact that one man built every piece, and everything works, including the flat-12 4-stroke fuel injected engine, gearbox, transmission, electrics, and even the oil pressure, water pressure, and tach gauges are operative and accurate!

The car comes complete with a beautiful flat-12 Ferrari exhaust note. It took the builder 15 years and 20,000 hours of work.

Here is a 1.13MB RealPlayer movie file about the car - please, no gratuitous anti-RP commentary, as I did not choose the format.

You can read about it here and here, and there are several pics here

Forgive me if this is a repost - I searched and did not find it.

 

[cpals]

He has a lot of time on his hands... but that's sweet.

 

[KingNothing]

Can a human even sit in that?

 

[Kenny]

Cool.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Can a human even sit in that?

Not even close.

Here is a pic that shows the scale of the car.

 

[Howard]

Man, flat-12s were used in WAY old Ferraris. Is that how long it took him to build it? LOL

 

[Cyberian]

Paging Eli.
Paging Eli.

Is Eli in the house?

 

[her209]

All he has to do now is build a little driver.

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: Cyberian
Paging Eli.
Paging Eli.

Is Eli in the house?

Did you not hear he is on the plan to france

 

[notfred]

It's kinda cool, but seems like a waste of time, really. Now that it's done, what can he do with it? Stare at it? He could have built several kick-ass cars he could actually drive in the same time span, probably for the same price.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: notfred
It's kinda cool, but seems like a waste of time, really. Now that it's done, what can he do with it? Stare at it? He could have built several kick-ass cars he could actually drive in the same time span, probably for the same price.

You're definitely not wrong, but I am impressed with his audacity and singlemindedness. Few of us would be able to maintain focus on one project for 15 years, whatever it happened to be.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: notfred
It's kinda cool, but seems like a waste of time, really. Now that it's done, what can he do with it? Stare at it? He could have built several kick-ass cars he could actually drive in the same time span, probably for the same price.

Kinda my thoughts as well, 20,000 hours even at minimum wage would have bought a hell of a sports car.

With his talent, it would have bought a hell of a lot more.

Viper GTS

 

[MonkeyloveGood]

I think he should have made a life sized ferrari. It might have actually come out cheaper and he'd be able to drive it! I don't see how that car's 1/3 size. It only looks about 2-2 1/2 feet long, so the real car's only 6- 7 1/2 feet long? My scaling is off i guess

 

[notfred]

just for comparison, it takes about 1000 hours to build one of these, and it just looks like more fun to me.

 

[paruhd0x]

LOL Cool! He needs to get a remote for that thing!

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: MonkeyloveGood
I think he should have made a life sized ferrari. It might have actually come out cheaper and he'd be able to drive it! I don't see how that car's 1/3 size. It only looks about 2-2 1/2 feet long, so the real car's only 6- 7 1/2 feet long? My scaling is off i guess

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I called it a 1/3 model because that was what the pages said, but it seems smaller.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: her209
All he has to do now is build a little driver.

LOL!