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Holy Mother Of God!!


daggerlee
10-15-2002, 07:31 PM
http://www.johnegerton.co.uk/cmcc/ferrari312.ram

Check this guy out!! He SCRATCHBUILT a Ferrari race car...I'd guess in the 1/6 scale, it took him 15 years, 3 years drawing upt the diagrams, another 12 for assembly... but here's the real kicker... with working boxer 12 engine, 6 gear transmission, working odometer, etc. etc.!!

I'm just blown away!!

Noz
10-15-2002, 07:44 PM
I remember seeing this on Top Gear (motor show on TV in the UK) a few years ago, it wasn't finished then, but the engine worked, it was an incredible feat.

-The Stig-
10-15-2002, 07:46 PM
:huh::huh::huh::huh:



wow... ok.. im gonna go build a 1/6th scale model of my Nova now... working V8 and all!


Sad thing is, ill probably have it finished before my real car. Doh! Hahaha.

fatboyslim
10-16-2002, 01:29 AM
WOW That's cool! Does this guy have a job or what?
15 years to build hmm is he any relation of Jays?

flyonthewall
10-16-2002, 05:47 AM
Seen that a few times now, its easily the best model car in the world! I heard he's working on something else now.

Guido
10-16-2002, 06:24 AM
Originally posted by Noz
I remember seeing this on Top Gear (motor show on TV in the UK) a few years ago, it wasn't finished then, but the engine worked, it was an incredible feat.

Same to me! And the boxer even sounded like to real thing.

sugarcaddy
10-16-2002, 08:55 AM
O MY GOD :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

That guy has WAAAAAYYYYY too much free time! :bloated:

I was floored when I saw he built a real working gear box and all the engine parts!
He could take home all sorts of best of show prizes at the model contests!!
If I could just have 1/10 of 1% of his talent in makeing car stuff I would be 1000% better at what I do!! :crying:

Scott

mentel
10-16-2002, 02:37 PM
wont work for me?

lotus_man
10-16-2002, 03:31 PM
I've seen this a couple of times. It's amazing peice of engineering (is it modelling?). I heard he sold it to finance a working GT40:eek: ...

I'm toying with a large scale model, probably a Porsche 962C in fiberglass. Not working, just for display, but I got a growing stack of kits to get through first :D

Joe Ortiz
10-16-2002, 04:27 PM
Incredible work of art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

FullyHopped
10-17-2002, 03:01 PM
:sun: Simply Amazing!! Thank You for this post! He should really think about hooking up some temporary servos some kind of way with a custom radio and running that car on a test track a few laps!

Jay!
10-17-2002, 06:33 PM
I still say he should just train a monkey to drive it. :coolguy:

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