The ultimate small scale model car?!

[cyberkid]

Originally Posted by gionc

That's enough for the weight I guess: a 111 cc engine.... if my 3.5/4 cc (2stroke) engines do 2+ HP.....

I want one for my 1/3 2 years old gionc..

The builder did say that the engine was a 100 cc flat twelve. So i'm guessing its 1/3. A 1/12 scale normally is a tad over a foot long and by the ways it looks I'm guessing its 3.5 to 4 ft long (using the builders body width for rough estimate).
Here's 2 sites to back up my guesses
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.scerri/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Scerri
Steve

[924_CarreraGTS]

Originally Posted by Gridgirl

(Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's a holdover from my days teaching university calc. )

Ha, I am IN that right now...

Alex

[Didymus]

Does anybody know what the builder does for a living? I'd guess machinist, of course, but that's only a guess.

I wonder if he ever asked himself "Is this really the way I want to spend a major portion of my life?" Not that there's anything WRONG with what he did - after all, it's his life and presumably his money, and he can do with it what he pleases - but to spend 15 years on a single non-scientific project with no obvious utility is certainly unusual. I suppose you might say he built it because it wasn't there, to invert George Mallory's reason for climbing Mt. Everest.

Didy

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by Didymus

Does anybody know what the builder does for a living?

IIRC, Clarkson says at the beginning of the report - a Telecom engineer I think.

Originally Posted by Didymus

"Is this really the way I want to spend a major portion of my life?"

I ask myself that every day

Originally Posted by Didymus

I suppose you might say he built it because it wasn't there, to invert George Mallory's reason for climbing Mt. Everest.

I always mistakenly put that quote down to Sir Edmund Hillary - thanks for putting me straight in that

[Didymus]

An artist friend commented that the Ferrari is the epitome of pure art. It has no purpose or utility. It doesn't teach or preach or educate. It just exists for its own sake. Cool, man.

Diddy