Sorry if this is a repost, this is the first I've heard of this and I usually don't frequent Jalopnik that much anyway.

http://jalopnik.com/5065896/hand+mad...s-light-of-day

I truly admire such a project, this thing is absolutely amazing.

 

heh yeah, pretty amazing.

 

that actually looks pretty sick...

 

Nice job! and talking about madness... http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=vxYRa0pqxlw

 

that's crazy and the bare chassis looks sick. I'd like to drive that thing around w/o the body.

 

It's great to see ol' Yankee ingenuity is still alive and well.

 

Wait a second, if he built it in his basement, then how is he going to get it out of his house?

I could imagine how pissed he would be "dammit, 10 years and now I have to take it all apart and reassemble it in the garage!!! "


Edit: lol, after looking at all the pictures I realized how he got it out, thats awesome! "Honey, I need to blow out the side of our foundation for my lambo"

 

This guy is obviously so clever I'm sure he promised his wife he'd extend the foundation and add a room above "just as soon as I finish the Lambo."

 

But it's not a Countach. It's just a really nice kit car.

 

it's most likely better built then a countach

 

Yeah, in reality I'm sure this would last much longer and be way more reliable than the real deal.

 

he had the wall torn down then pulled it out.

 

I got that deedub thanks

 

All those years of build effort and then chance it dragging it up an earthen slope with a backhoe!!!

 

What did you want him to do? Teleport it out of his basement?

 

probably build it in a sensible location to begin with

 

I think I would have built a solid timber sloped ramp and winched it out. Teleport would have been easier tho'.

 

Well I guess, but he did actually painstakingly use a real one and the exact dimensions to build off of one, all the kit car ones I've seen are always "off" due to whatever chassis they're designed to fit, this guy hand fabbed his own chassis and body based off the real deal, instead of just cheesing it with a fiberglass kit slapped on a Fiero for example. I'd call it more of a Countach than a kit car myself, but whatever, it's just semantecs (tics?) anyway.


edit: wonder if he'd build me a Bugatti!?

 

so whats more impressive this or the guy in europe i believe who built the lamborghini to a small model size that actually runs and functions like a real lamborghini

 

It's actually a Ferrari, I have the video clip, I'd have to say this is more impressive just because it's actually drivable, but the model Ferrari is pretty nutso too considering how small all the pieces are and how much work it must have been to scale down everything correctly etc. Sorry for the crappy quality, but here is the Ferrari you mentioned:


http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=30441182

 

he built it in his basement so he could work on it through the winter, at the time he did not have the cash flow to winterize his garage. I believe it was somewhere like Wisconsin or something, pretty cold up there in the winter time and the winters are pretty long. It would have taken him 20 years if he didn't do it in the basement.

 

no silly, the basement is the only place his mom would let him build it......(heh)

 

i built a life size RX8 in my garage. measured out and everything. pretty sweet. looks and handles better than a stock one too.

 

simply bad ***...props to that guy

 

o your good. real good ha yea its way cooler too have one you can go drive around and say yea wasup i built this..and its a classic