Interesting homemade cars. DIY car: Designer for yourself
Some car enthusiasts are categorically dissatisfied with the cars produced official manufacturers. And then they decide to create homemade cars, which will fully satisfy all the individual wishes of the owner. And today we will tell you about 10 of the most unusual such vehicles.
Black Raven - a homemade SUV from Kazakhstan
Black Raven is perfect car for the Kazakh steppe. It is fast, powerful and undemanding to use. This unusual SUV was made from scratch by an enthusiast from the city of Karaganda.
The Black Raven has a 5-liter engine with a capacity of 170 Horse power, thanks to which the car can accelerate to a speed of 90 kilometers per hour when driving over rough terrain and off-road.
Angkor 333 – homemade electric car from Cambodia
Angkor 333 is the first all-electric car created in the Kingdom of Cambodia. It's amazing that this car is not the result of the development of the automotive industry in the country, but the private project of one person - a modest mechanic from Phnom Penh.
The author of Angkor 333 dreams that in the future he will open his own factory for mass production of both electric and gasoline versions of this car.
Homemade Batmobile from Shanghai
Fans of Batman films around the world dream of the Batmobile, a stunningly designed superhero car that has many different features that are not available in ordinary production cars.
And engineer Li Weilei from Shanghai decided with my own hands realize this dream. He created a real Batmobile that looks like it came straight out of movie theaters. At the same time, the Chinese spent less than 10 thousand dollars on the construction of this machine.
The Shanghai Batmobile certainly doesn't have ten different types weapons and does not drive at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, but in appearance it exactly replicates Batman’s car, shown in the latest films about this hero.
Homemade car for Formula 1 racing
A real Formula 1 racing car costs a lot of money - more than a million dollars. So there are no such cars in private ownership. At least their official versions. But craftsmen from all over the world create replicas of racing cars with their own hands.
One such enthusiast is Bosnian engineer Miso Kuzmanovic, who spent 25 thousand euros to create a street car in the style of Formula 1. The result is an incredibly beautiful car with 150 horsepower that can accelerate to speeds of 250 kilometers per hour.
Driving this red car through the streets of his city, Kuzmanovic earned the nickname “Bosnian Schumacher.”
Old Guo - a homemade car for $500
Chinese farmer Old Guo was interested in mechanics since childhood, but worked as a farmer all his life. However, after his fiftieth birthday, he decided to follow his dream and began to develop a car of his own production, which was named after the inventor - Old Guo.
Old Guo is a compact copy of Lamborghini, intended for a children's audience. But this is not a toy car, but real car with an electric motor, which can travel up to 60 kilometers on a single battery charge.
Moreover, the cost of one copy of Old Guo is 5,000 yuan (just under 500 US dollars).
Bizon - a homemade SUV from Kyiv
Over the course of a year, Kiev resident Alexander Chupilin and his son assembled their own SUV, which they named Bizon, from spare parts from other cars, as well as original parts. Ukrainian enthusiasts produced a huge car with a 4-liter engine producing 137 horsepower
Bizon can accelerate to speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. Fuel consumption in mixed mode for this car is 15 liters per 100 km. The SUV interior has three rows of seats that can accommodate nine people.
Also interesting is the roof of the Bizon car, which has a built-in folding tent for spending the night in the field.
Super Awesome Micro Project - a homemade pneumatic car made from LEGO
The LEGO constructor is such a versatile material that you can even construct a fully functional car from it. At least this was achieved by two enthusiasts from Australia and Romania, who established an initiative called the Super Awesome Micro Project.
As part of this, they built a car from a LEGO set that can move thanks to a 256-piston pneumatic engine, accelerating to a speed of 28 kilometers per hour.
The cost of creating this car was just over 1 thousand dollars, of which most of the money went to purchase more than half a million LEGO parts.
Homemade student car powered by hydrogen fuel
Every year Shell organizes a special race among cars using alternative fuel sources. And in 2012, this competition was won by a car created by a group of students from Aston University in Birmingham.
The students built a car out of plywood and cardboard, which is powered by a hydrogen engine that produces water vapor instead of exhaust gases.
Homemade Rolls Royce Phantom from Kazakhstan
A separate area of creating homemade cars is the construction of cheap copies of expensive and famous cars. For example, 24-year-old Kazakh engineer Ruslan Mukanov built a visual copy of the legendary Rolls Royce Phantom limousine.
While prices for a real Rolls Royce Phantom start at half a million euros, Mukanov managed to build himself a car for just three thousand. Moreover, his car is visually almost indistinguishable from the original car.
True, this car looks very unusual on the streets of provincial Kazakh Shakhtinsk.
Upside Down Camaro - upside down car
Most creators of home-made cars are driven by the desire to improve the visual and technical components of production cars. American racer and engineer SpeedyCop started from opposite principles. He wanted to make it worse appearance your car, turning it into something incredibly funny. This is how a car called Upside Down Camaro appeared.
Upside Down Camaro is Chevrolet Camaro 1999 with the body turned upside down. The car was created for the 24 Hours of LeMons parody race, in which only cars costing $500 or less can take part.
Many people dream of owning a car, but only a few find the strength, inspiration and desire to work hard and painstakingly to create their own dream car. It is these desperate self-taught people who do automotive world more interesting, saving him from the boredom of assembly line production. It is their creations that sometimes attract the attention of others more than the top models of famous manufacturers.
Today we want to introduce you to the best homemade cars from around the world. Our rating includes truly worthy homemade products that can be sent into mass production even today, without any fear of low demand. Most of the cars included in the rating can easily compete with cars from major manufacturers, but, unfortunately, they will forever remain in a single copy, delighting the public only at various auto shows. However, this is precisely what makes them special, inimitable, unique, and allows their owners to feel like heroes who managed to single-handedly create a truly worthy car. So, let's start.
There are only five homemade products in our rating. It could have been more, but we decided to limit ourselves only to cars that have passed all the necessary certification and are registered, i.e. All participants in the rating are allowed to drive on public roads without any restrictions. This only confirms their quality and uniqueness, and also indicates a real opportunity to compete with production cars.
Fifth place goes to the SUV " Black Raven", built in Kazakhstan. This unique vehicle, created for hunting in steppe conditions, has a threatening and at the same time futuristic design. "Black Raven" could easily star in science fiction films or even act as army vehicle, but it is used only by its creator - a modest self-taught engineer from Karaganda.
The appearance of the SUV is truly original, a little awkward, but original and brutal. “Black Raven” is a real man’s car with a powerful frame chassis, riveted aluminum body panels, “multi-eyed” optics and all-terrain wheels that are ready to bite even into difficult ground. The “Black Raven” is eager to go into battle thanks to a powerful American-made V8 engine, working in conjunction with an automatic transmission and a ZIL-157 gearbox located on rear axle. Excellent ride quality SUV are guaranteed by a long wheelbase, wide track, central location of the engine and gearbox, as well as independent suspension with torsion bars from an armored personnel carrier. All this allows the car to maintain stability during sharp maneuvers even at a speed of about 100 km/h and easily overcome potholes and bumps along the way.
The unique homemade cabin is designed for two passengers. The jeep's equipment includes LED brake lights and turn signals, electric windshield windows, an electric hood and a unique chain-driven self-extractor mounted in the bottom. As for the price, then approximate cost“Black Crow” is about 1,500,000 rubles.
Go ahead. On the fourth line we have first ever Cambodian car- "". Oddly enough, it was created not by a state or private automobile company, but by a simple mechanic, Nhin Pheloek, who decided that at 52 years old it was time to get his own car.
Angkor 333 is a very compact two-seater roadster with very modern features and a rather attractive design, especially for a poor Asian country.
The Cambodian homemade vehicle received a body with streamlined shapes, stylish optics and modern aerodynamic elements. Moreover, Angkor 333 is hybrid car, equipped with a traction electric motor, 3-speed automatic transmission and 45-horsepower gasoline unit, intended for recharging battery. Surprisingly, the homemade roadster is capable of accelerating up to 120 km/h and covering about 100 km on a single battery charge. In addition, the Angkor 333 is equipped with a touch display that acts as an instrument panel, and the doors are opened using a special magnetic plastic card. Even most people don’t have such functions. production cars, so the development of a talented mechanic is worthy of respect.
The first Angkor 333 was assembled in 2003. In 2006, the creator presented the second generation of his brainchild, and in 2010, a modified third-generation car was released, which to this day is hand-assembled in small batches to order in Nhin Pheloek’s garage, providing the retired mechanic with a comfortable old age. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the cost of the roadster.
In third place in our ranking is a car that is most often called “”. This impressive SUV was created by Vyacheslav Zolotukhin from Krasnokamensk, Trans-Baikal Territory. The homemade product is based on a modified GAZ-66 chassis, complemented by converted shock absorbers from KAMAZ, split front hubs and power steering from a Hino truck.
The Mega Cruiser Russia is powered by a naturally-aspirated 7.5-liter Hino h07D diesel engine, which, during the process of modification, received a KAMAZ air cleaning system. The engine is supported by a 6-speed manual transmission and transfer case from a GAZ-66, in which all bearings were replaced with imported ones. The homemade vehicle has a full drive, with the ability to lock the axles, in which the main pairs were replaced, which made it possible to achieve a smooth ride on paved roads.
The body of Mega Cruiser Russia is metal, prefabricated, attached to the frame through 12 shock-absorbing supports. The “living part” is a modernized cabin of an Isuzu Elf truck, to which is also attached a redesigned “rear” of the Noah minivan. The front part of the body consists of modernized wings from the GAZ-3307, a hood of our own design and a radiator grille made from several copies of the grille Land Cruiser Prado. The homemade bumpers are metal, of our own design, and wheel disks“riveted” from GAZ-66 wheels, which made it possible to install tires from the TIGER army jeep.
If you look into the salon, you will see 6 seats, a lot of free space, right-hand drive, quite nice interior and comfortable driver's seat with excellent visibility in all directions.
Mega Cruiser Russia is equipped with a 150-liter gas tank, a gyroscope, an electric winch with a force of 6 tons, an audio system and even a spoiler. According to the author of the homemade product, the SUV is capable of accelerating up to 120 km/h, its weight is 3800 kg, and the average fuel consumption is 15 liters on the highway and about 18 liters off-road. Last year, Mega Cruiser Russia was put up for sale by its creator at a price of 3,600,000 rubles.
The second place in our rating of homemade products is occupied by another unique SUV, this time from Ukraine. We're talking about a car." Buffalo", also built on the basis of the GAZ-66. Its author is Alexander Chuvpilin from Bila Tserkva, Kiev region.
“Bison” received a more modern and more aerodynamic appearance, the originality of which is emphasized, first of all, by the front part of the body. The creator borrowed most of the body panels from the VW Passat 64, but some elements had to be made independently.
Under the hood of the Ukrainian homemade product there is a 4.0-liter turbodiesel with an output of 137 hp, borrowed from the Chinese DongFeng DF-40 truck. He also gave the Bison a 5-speed manual box transmission Together, Chinese units provided homemade SUV the ability to accelerate to 120 kph with an average fuel consumption of 15 liters per 100 km. Permanent drive The Bison has a rear one, with the ability to connect the front axle, lock the differential and use a low gear.
The car is capable of fording a ford up to 1.2 meters deep, and is also equipped with a tire pressure regulation system with an additional outlet for household needs: pumping up boats, using a pneumatic jack or pneumatic tools, etc.
The Bison's body, mounted on 12 supports, is reinforced with numerous stiffening ribs and a frame frame, and the roof of the SUV is made of 2 mm thick metal, which made it possible to place a drop-down tent on it for overnight stays. One of the features of the Bison is its nine-seater interior layout (3+4+2), with two rear seats, capable of turning in any direction, can be retracted, allowing you to increase free space luggage compartment. In general, the Bison has a comfortable and spacious interior with high-quality finishes, comfortable seats and a front panel with two glove compartments.
Among the numerous equipment installed on the Bison, we highlight the presence of power steering, dual amplifier brake system, rear view camera, GPS navigator, electric winch, special headlights reverse and a retractable rear door step. Alexander Chuvpilin spent about $15,000 to create “Bison.”
Well, all that remains is to name the winner, which, naturally, could only be a sports car, because it’s about racing car Every motorist dreams. A simple self-taught person without a technical education, Chelyabinsk resident Sergei Vladimirovich Ivantsov, who planned to build his own sports car back in 1983, also dreamed about it. A car with a simple name " ISV", consisting of the initials of the creator, was built for about 20 years and during this long journey it managed to survive two prototypes, sculpted on a 1:1 scale, first from window putty and then from plasticine. At the same time, according to the creator, he did everything “by eye,” without drawings or calculations.
From the plasticine model, Sergei made plaster casts of the parts of the future body, after which he painstakingly glued them out of fiberglass and epoxy resin. It is worth mentioning separately that the creator of this masterpiece is allergic to epoxy resin, and therefore he had to work in an army gas mask, sometimes spending 6-8 hours in it. What can I say, the tenacity with which he pursued his dream deserves respect, and the result of his work impresses not only ordinary onlookers, but also seasoned specialists in the automotive industry. From a design point of view, the homemade ISV is ready to compete with many currently produced sports cars, but the final concept of the sports car was conceived about 15 years ago. As Sergei himself admitted, he drew inspiration from the Lamborghini Countach, but if you look closely, you can catch notes of Aston Martin, Maserati, and even Bugatti in the appearance of the ISV.
The ISV is based on a spatial welded frame made of square pipes, and the entire chassis and suspension are borrowed with minor modifications from the Niva. The ISV has only rear-wheel drive, as befits a good sports car. As for the engine, initially the homemade product received a modest engine from the “classic”, but then it gave way to a 4-cylinder 1.8-liter engine with 113 hp. from the BMW 318, paired with a 4-speed automatic transmission. Unfortunately, due to his great love for his brainchild, Sergey never loaded ISV onto full power, so we will probably never know the true speed capabilities of the car. The author of the sports car himself drives quite carefully and does not accelerate more than 140 km/h.
Let's take a look at the ISV salon. Here is a classic sports car 2-seater layout with an interior tailored to the maximum comfort of the driver. And this is not surprising, because the interior was made by hand and was repeatedly modified and redesigned. Here, as in the exterior, you can see an interior design concept worthy of a sports car, some details of which also resemble the styling of cars from famous manufacturers. The ISV has a removable roof, guillotine doors, air conditioning, power steering, a stylish Audi dashboard and an audio system.
It’s difficult to talk about the price of ISV. The creator himself considers his car priceless and, according to some sources, once refused to sell it for 100,000 euros.
That's all, we introduced you to the most interesting and high-quality home-made cars of recent times, approved for use on public roads. Each of them is unique, original and interesting in its own way. But all together, they certainly left their bright mark on the history of the global automobile industry and gave a sea of positive emotions not only to their creators, but also to numerous visitors to various automobile exhibitions and shows. We hope that the number of people who like to create masterpiece cars in their garage will only grow, and, therefore, we will have reasons for new ratings.
Are you planning to surprise others with your car? Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be possible serial model, which came off the assembly line of some factory, but vehicle, made with your own hands, will undoubtedly attract the attention of the crowd on the street.
A homemade vehicle can evoke two emotions in those around you - genuine surprise at your skill or an undisguised smile at the sight of your invention. If you delve into the issue of assembling your own car, then there will be nothing complicated in the process. The main thing is to learn more about the main parts and components of the car, to understand the features and properties of the vehicle.
Homemade cars in history
Mass production of homemade cars began in the Soviet Union. At that time, only certain models were released onto the market, which could not satisfy all consumer needs. As a result, self-taught craftsmen appeared who designed their own cars, in accordance with their desires and financial capabilities.
The assembly of a new car was carried out on the basis of failed cars, on average, one homemade car required three non-working ones. The craftsmen filmed everything necessary spare parts, and introduced them into the new body. By the way, body work were popular in villages, the old body of the car was specially removed and replaced with a more spacious one.
In addition to functional models, vehicles that were simply attractive from an aesthetic point of view were also created, which could not be distinguished from well-known sports factory examples. Such cars were full-fledged road users.
It is worth noting that until the 80s there was no ban on the design and use of homemade vehicles. After the ban appeared, inventors had to get out, many of them registered a completely different vehicle with the traffic police, and then used their invention.
How to build your own car
Before starting assembly, it is necessary to draw up a plan for future work, in which you need to indicate what the car will be like, what features and characteristics it will have. If the car will be used in the future, it is necessary to purchase high-quality materials and parts, assemble a reliable frame and an impact-resistant body.
Important! Depending on what kind of vehicle you plan to assemble, you will need certain materials. In this case, it is unlikely that you can get by with bolts, wheels and scrap metal.
You can learn about the actual assembly process from training videos, of which there are plenty on the Internet.
Drawings of the future car
Imagination and fantasy will help you think through in your head the appearance and structure of the future car down to the smallest detail, however, to implement your plans in reality, you need to draw up a drawing of the vehicle.
It is better to make two drawings of the car: the first one will depict general form, on the second - individual nodes and vehicle parts.
Before you start creating a drawing, you should prepare a pencil, ruler, Whatman paper and eraser. First, sketches are made on the sheet with thin lines, which, if necessary, can be easily erased. After all the details have been drawn and you are completely satisfied with the resulting image, the drawing is outlined with a thick line.
It is not necessary to draw a drawing on a sheet of paper; modern designers come to the aid of software that greatly facilitates the process of creating a drawing.
Car assembly
In America and Europe, over the past few years, “kit car” kits have become popular, which are a set of various parts that allow you to assemble a car with your own hands. The parts are universal, so how it turns out ready car, completely depends on the imagination of the owner of the set.
Nowadays, it’s hard to surprise with some new car model, but a vehicle made with your own hands has always attracted attention and excitement. A person who makes a car with his own hands is faced with two scenarios. The first is admiration for the creation, and the second is the smile of others at the sight of the invention. If you look at it, there is nothing complicated about assembling a car yourself. A self-taught engineer is only required to know the design of a car and the basic properties of its parts.
Historical facts
The beginning of automobile construction was preceded by certain historical conditions. During the existence of the union, mass production of cars was carried out. They could not satisfy individual consumer needs. That is why self-taught inventors began to look for ways out of this situation and did this by constructing homemade cars.
In order to make one car with your own hands, three non-working ones were required, from which all the necessary spare parts were removed. If we take into account people living in remote villages, they most often improved various bodies, thereby increasing their capacity. Cars began to appear that had high cross-country ability and could even overcome water. In a word, all efforts were devoted to simplifying life.
A separate category of people attached great importance to the appearance of the car, and not just its technical properties. In addition to beautiful passenger cars, sports cars were made that were not much inferior to factory copies. All these inventions not only surprised others, but also became full-fledged participants in traffic.
During times Soviet Union there were no specific restrictions on homemade vehicles. Bans appeared in the 80s. They concerned only certain parameters and technical characteristics of the car. But most people could get around them by registering one vehicle with the relevant authorities under the guise of a completely different one.
What is needed to assemble a car
To proceed directly to the assembly process itself, you need to think through everything in detail. You need to clearly understand how to do it future car, and what technical characteristics he must possess. First you need to determine for what purposes the car will be used, and then implement the idea. If you need an outright workhorse, then in order to make it yourself you will need special materials and details. It is also important to make the body and frame of the car as stress-resistant as possible. When a car is made just for driving, the only question is its appearance.
You can learn how to make a car with your own hands for a child from the following video:
How to make drawings
You shouldn’t trust your head and imagination; it would be better and more correct to think about what exactly the car should be like. Then transfer all available considerations to paper. Then it is possible to correct something and as a result a hand-drawn copy will appear future car. Sometimes, just to be sure, two drawings are made. The first one shows the appearance of the car, and the second one shows a more detailed image of the main parts in detail. Before you start drawing you need to prepare everything necessary tools, that is, a pencil, an eraser, whatman paper and a ruler.
Nowadays, there is no need to draw a picture for a long time using a regular pencil. To facilitate this task, there are special programs that have wide capabilities and with their help you can make any drawing.
Advice! If there are no engineering programs, then the usual Word test editor will help in this situation.
If you really want to, you can make any car with your own hands. If you don’t have your own ideas, then you can borrow ready-made ideas and drawings. This is possible because most people who create homemade cars do not hide their ideas, but, on the contrary, present them to the public.
Kit cars
In the vastness of Europe and America, so-called “kit cars” have become widespread. So what is it? This is a certain number of different parts with which you can make a car with your own hands. Kit cars have become so popular that there are many variants of them that can be folded into any car model you want. The main difficulty is not in the assembly, but in registering the resulting car.
For full-fledged work With a kit car you need to have a spacious garage. In addition, you need tool kits and knowledge. If you do not have certain skills, the work will not give the desired result. If the work is done with the help of assistants, the assembly process will be faster and more fruitful.
This kit includes everything from small screws and instructions to large parts. There shouldn't be any serious difficulties for this to work properly. It should be noted that the instructions are not in printed form, but are presented in a video master class, where everything is discussed down to the smallest detail.
It is very important to assemble the car correctly. This is necessary for the creation to comply with all standards and norms prescribed in regulations Traffic police Since failure to comply with the points leads to problems with registering the vehicle with the relevant authorities.
Advice! If there is such an opportunity, then you can consult with experts in this field.
You can learn more about what kit cars are and how to make them in the following video:
Designing a car using scrap materials
To make the task of assembling a home-made car as easy as possible, you can take as a basis the base of any other car that is fully functioning. It's best to take a budget option, since it is never known in which direction the experiments will lead. If there are old worn parts, they need to be replaced with serviceable ones. If possible, you can make parts with your own hands on lathes, but this is only if you have professional skills.
First of all, you need to start assembling the car with the body, instruments and necessary interior parts. Modern inventors use fiberglass for the body, but previously there was no such material, and plywood and tin material were used.
Attention! Fiberglass is a fairly elastic material, which allows you to implement any idea, even the most unusual and original.
The availability of materials, spare parts and other components makes it possible to design a car that, in terms of external parameters and appearance, will not be inferior to the car models of the most leading automakers in the world. This requires ingenuity, good imagination and certain knowledge.
DIY supercar:
Construction of a fiberglass car
Assembling a fiberglass car should begin from the moment you select a suitable chassis. After this, the necessary units are selected. Then you should move on to marking the interior and securing the seats. Once this is completed, the chassis is strengthened. The frame must be very reliable and strong, since all the main parts of the car will be mounted on it. The more precise the dimensions of the space frame, the better the parts fit together.
For the manufacture of the body, it is best to use fiberglass. But first you need to make a base, that is, a frame. Sheets of foam plastic can be attached to the surface of the frame, matching the existing drawings as closely as possible. Then holes are cut out as needed, and if necessary, the parameters are adjusted. After this, fiberglass is attached to the surface of the foam, which is puttied on top and cleaned. It is not necessary to use foam plastic; any other material that has high level plasticity. Such material can be a solid canvas of sculptural plasticine.
It is worth noting that fiberglass tends to deform during use. The reason is the impact high temperatures. To maintain the shape of the structure, it is necessary to reinforce the frame with pipes from the inside. All excess parts of the fiberglass must be removed, but this should be done after it is completely dry. If everything is done correctly and there is no other work regarding the design, you can move on to interior equipment and electronics mounting.
If re-design is planned in the future, a special matrix can be made. Thanks to it, the body manufacturing process will be faster and easier. The matrix is applicable not only for making a vehicle with your own hands from scratch, but also for the purpose of improving the condition of your own existing car. Paraffin is used for production. To get a smooth surface, you need to cover it with paint on top. This will increase the ease of fastening parts for the new car body.
Attention! Using the matrix, the entire body is made. But there is an exception - the hood and doors.
Conclusion
In order to implement your existing idea and make a car with your own hands, there are a number of suitable options. All sorts of working parts will be useful here.
You can do not only with your own hands a car, but also larger and powerful truck. In some countries, craftsmen manage to earn decent money from this. They make cars to order. Cars with various original parts body
How to make a Porsche with your own hands:
Making a car with your own hands is a task worthy of a real man. Many people think about it, some take it on, and only a few bring it to completion. We decided to tell the stories of cars made, as they say, on the knee. We’ll talk about the work of professional body shops, including those like A:Level or ElMotors, another time.
The work of the masters of the East
Most of the home-made people are in the so-called developing countries. Not everyone can afford an expensive car, but everyone wants one. And in these countries they look at copyright, let’s say, in a peculiar way, not in a European way.It’s easy to find a video on the Internet about an entire factory of “homemade” supercars in Bangkok. These cost tens of times less than the original. Now it no longer works: apparently, the German journalists who made videos about home-made workers did them a disservice, and local authorities began to think about the missing licenses of the “masters” and the safety of the cars they riveted. It’s clear that these crafts were not specifically crash tested.
It is interesting that, in principle, the Thais maintained supercars - they made spatial frames from metal profiles and pipes and “dressed” them in fiberglass bodies. In most cases, do-it-yourselfers simply take old cars, cut off the “extra” body panels and attach their own. For example, this replica was built using this technology Bugatti Veyron from India. An ambitious project, right according to the saying “to love is like a queen, to steal is like a million.” The author and owner used an old one as a basis Honda Civic. And he tried - outwardly the copy turned out to be worthy: it’s not for nothing that the audience looks at it so carefully.
Another Indian, a former actor, now a social reformer, concocted a parody of the Veyron from the Honda Accord. It turned out creepy. Another one took the Tata Nano as a basis. Let me remind you that this is officially the cheapest production car in the world with peculiar proportions. Very weak and slow. However, the author of this project is clearly not without a sense of humor, because Veyron, on the contrary, is one of the most expensive, powerful and fastest production cars.Supercars from junkyards
The Chinese are not lagging behind their Thai and Indian colleagues. A young glass factory worker, Chen Yanxi, did not parody someone else’s design, but made his own, his own. And even though his car looks decent only from a distance, and only goes 40 km/h (the installed electric motor doesn’t allow it anymore), I don’t want to laugh at Chen. Well done for going your own way. More often it happens differently.
Three years ago, 26-year-old Chinese prop designer Li Weilei was so impressed by the Tumbler Batmobile from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight that he built one. It took him and four friends 70,000 yuan (about 11 thousand dollars) and only two months of work. Lee took the steel for the body from a landfill, shoveling 10 tons of metal. To help offset the costs, he now rents out his Tumbler for photo and video shoots for just 10 bucks a month. But tenants must be prepared to roll the “replica” by hand. The car cannot drive, since it has neither a power unit nor a functional steering wheel. In addition, in China only cars produced by certified manufacturers are put on the road.
Another Chinese craftsman, Wang Jian from Jiangsu province, made his own “copy” of a Lamborghini Reventon from an old Nissan minivan and Volkswagen sedan Santana. And he also hauled metal from a landfill. I spent 60,000 yuan (9.5 thousand dollars) on this matter. The car has a carburetor engine, it smokes mercilessly, it does not have an interior or even glass, but the author himself likes the result, and the neighbors believe that Jian’s car is a fairly accurate copy of Lambo. The author claims that he is able to accelerate to 250 km/h in his supercar. No one risks dissuading him.
As you can see, most of all do-it-yourselfers love to copy Ferrari and Lamborghini. Externally. Inside this car by Mr. Meath from Thailand is a motorcycle Lifan engine volume of a quarter liter.
The funniest and most touching creation is by Chinese farmer Guo from Zhengzhou. He made a Lambo for... his grandson. The car has children's dimensions - 900 by 1800 mm and an electric motor that allows it to accelerate to 40 km/h. A battery of five batteries is enough for 60 km of travel. Guo spent $815 and six months of work on his brainchild.
A Vietnamese car mechanic from Bac Giang province created a resemblance of a Rolls-Royce using a “seven”. I bought it for 10 million dong (about $500). He spent another 20 million on “tuning”. Most of the amount went to metal, electrodes and a radiator grille a la Rolls-Royce, ordered from a local workshop. It turned out rough. But the guy became famous. A real Rolls-Royce Phantom in Vietnam costs about 30 billion VND.
Samauto-2017
In the vastness former USSR The traditions of self-building are also strong. During the Soviet years, there was a movement called “samavto”, which united enthusiasts of homemade cars and motorcycles. And there were quite a few of them, since in those years it seemed that it was easier to assemble a car with your own hands than to buy it - despite the total shortage of spare parts and bureaucratic obstacles. And what interesting projects were born in those years! Yuna, Pangolina, Laura, Ichthyander and others... Yes, there were people. However, they remained.
Several years ago, I wrote about the brainchild of Muscovite Evgeniy Danilin called an SUV, reminiscent of the Hummer H1, but significantly superior to it in cross-country ability.
I immediately remember my long-standing acquaintance with Alexander Timashev from Bishkek. His workshop ZerDo Design created a whole series in the 2000s interesting homemade products, the first of which was the Barkhan, also a similarity to the Hummer based on the GAZ-66. Then the “Mad Cabin” appeared, a type of American hot rod, made from the cabin of the ZIL-157 army truck - “Zakhara”. .
The “Crazy Cab” was followed by homemade products in retro style - the so-called replicars, speedster and phaeton. And for them, Kyrgyz craftsmen made not only bodies and interiors, but even frames.
