Many dream of their own 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 boredom conveyor 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 all over the world. Our rating includes really worthy homemade products that can be sent into mass production even today, without fear of low demand at all. Most of the cars included in the rating will easily be able to compete with the cars of large manufacturers, but, unfortunately, they will forever remain in single copy, delighting the public except at various auto shows. However, this is what makes them special, inimitable, unique, and allows their owners to feel like heroes who alone managed to create a truly decent car. So, let's start.
There are only five homemade products in our rating. It could have been more, but we decided to confine ourselves to cars that have passed all the necessary certification and are registered, i.e. all participants of the rating are allowed to drive on the roads common use without any restrictions. This only confirms their quality and uniqueness, and also speaks of a real opportunity to compete with production cars.
Fifth place was given to the SUV " Black Raven”, built in Kazakhstan. This unique car, created for hunting in the steppe conditions, has a menacing and at the same time futuristic design. "Black Raven" could safely star in fantasy films or even act as army car, but it is used only by its creator - a modest self-taught engineer from Karaganda.
The appearance of the SUV is really original, a little awkward, but original and brutal. "Black Raven" - real male car with a powerful frame chassis, riveted aluminum hull panels, multi-eyed optics and all-terrain wheels ready to bite even into difficult ground. The Black Raven is rushing into battle at the expense of powerful motor American-made V8, working in conjunction with an automatic transmission and a gearbox from ZIL-157, located on rear axle. Excellent driving performance off-road vehicles are guaranteed by a long wheelbase, a wide track, a central location of the engine and gearbox, as well as independent suspension with torsion bars from armored personnel carriers. All this allows the car to maintain stability during sharp maneuvers even at a speed of about 100 km / h and easily overcome pits and bumps encountered on the way.
Salon unique homemade designed for two passengers. The equipment of the jeep includes LED brake lights and turn signals, electric windshields, electric hood and a unique self-puller with chain drive built into the bottom. As for the price, the approximate cost of the Black Raven is about 1,500,000 rubles.
Go ahead. On the fourth line we have the first ever Cambodian car- "". Oddly enough, it was not created by a state or private automobile company, but simple mechanic Nhin Feloek, who decided that at 52 it was time to get his own car.
Angkor 333 is a very compact two-seater roadster with a very modern filling and quite attractive design, especially for a poor Asian country.
Cambodian homemade received a body with streamlined shapes, stylish optics and modern aerodynamic elements. Moreover, Angkor 333 is hybrid car, equipped with a traction electric motor, a 3-speed automatic transmission and a 45-horsepower gasoline unit for recharging battery. Surprisingly, a homemade roadster is capable of accelerating to 120 km / h and covering about 100 km on a single battery charge. In addition, the Angkor 333 is equipped with a touch screen that acts as a dashboard, and the doors are opened using a special magnetic plastic card. Most of them don't even have these features. stock cars, so the development of a talented mechanic is worthy of respect.
The first Angkor 333 was assembled in 2003. In 2006, the creator introduced the second generation of his brainchild, and in 2010, a modified third-generation car saw the light, which to this day is manually assembled in small batches to order in the garage of Nhin Feloek, providing a retired mechanic a comfortable old age. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the cost of the roadster.
In third place in our ranking is the car, which 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, supplemented with converted shock absorbers from KAMAZ, front detachable hubs and a power steering from a Hino truck.
In motion Mega cruiser Russia is driven by an atmospheric 7.5-liter Hino h07D diesel engine, which received a KAMAZ air cleaning system in the process of refinement. The engine is assisted by a 6-speed manual gearbox and a transfer case from the GAZ-66, in which all bearings were replaced with imported ones. The homemade drive is complete, with the ability to block the bridges in which the main pairs were replaced, which made it possible to achieve a smooth ride on paved roads.
The body of the Mega Cruiser Russia is metal, prefabricated, attached to the frame through 12 shock-absorbing supports. The "living area" is a modified cabin of the Isuzu Elf truck, which is also attached to the converted "back" 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 molded from several copies of the Land grille Cruiser Prado. Homemade metal bumpers, own development, and the rims were “riveted” from the GAZ-66 wheels, which made it possible to install rubber from the TIGER army jeep.
If you look into the salon, you will see 6 seats, a lot of free space, right hand drive, a pretty nice interior and a comfortable driving position 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 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 the creator at a price of 3,600,000 rubles.
The second line of our homemade rating is occupied by another unique SUV, this time from Ukraine. It's about the car Buffalo", also built on the basis of the GAZ-66. Its author is Alexander Chuvpilin from Belaya Tserkov, Kiev region.
"Bizon" received a more modern and more aerodynamic appearance, the originality of which is emphasized, first of all, by the front 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 is a 4.0-liter turbodiesel with a return of 137 hp, borrowed from Chinese truck Dong Feng DF-40. He also gave the "Bizon" and a 5-speed mechanical box gears. In a pair, Chinese units provided homemade SUV the possibility of acceleration to 120 km / h with an average fuel consumption of 15 liters per 100 km. permanent drive Bizon has a rear one, with the ability to connect the front axle, lock the differential and use a low gear.
The car is able to overcome fords up to 1.2 meters deep, and is also equipped with a tire pressure adjustment system with an additional outlet for domestic needs: pumping boats, using a pneumatic jack or pneumatic tools, etc.
The body of the Bizon, planted on 12 pillars, is reinforced with numerous stiffening ribs and a frame frame, and the roof of the SUV is made of metal 2 mm thick, which made it possible to place a drop-down tent on it for the night. One of the features of the "Bizon" is the nine-seater layout of the cabin (3 + 4 + 2), while two rear seats, which can rotate in any direction, can be retracted, allowing you to increase the free space luggage compartment. In general, Bizon has a comfortable and spacious interior with quality finish, comfortable seats and a front panel with two glove compartments.
Among the numerous equipment installed on the Bizon, we highlight the presence of a power steering, a double power steering brake system, rear view camera, GPS navigator, electric winch, special headlights reversing and retractable footrest tailgate. Alexander Chuvpilin spent about $15,000 to create Bizon.
Well, it remains only to name the winner, which, of course, could only be a sports car, because it was about racing car every motorist's dream. A simple self-taught person without a technical education, a Chelyabinsk resident Sergei Vladimirovich Ivantsov, who conceived the idea of building 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 haul managed to survive two prototypes, molded on a scale of 1: 1, first from window putty, and then from plasticine. At the same time, according to the creator, he did everything “by eye”, doing without drawings and calculations.
From the plasticine model, Sergey sculpted plaster casts of the details of the future body, after which he painstakingly pasted them out of fiberglass and epoxy resin. Here it is worth mentioning separately that the creator of this masterpiece is allergic to epoxy, and therefore he had to work in an army gas mask, sometimes spending 6-8 hours in it. What can I say, the perseverance with which he went to his dream deserves respect, and the result of his work impresses not only ordinary onlookers, but also experienced specialists automotive industry. In terms of design, the homemade ISV is ready to compete with many sports cars currently being produced, and in fact the final concept of a sports car was conceived 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 ISV.
The ISV is based on a spatial welded frame made of square pipes, and the entire chassis and suspension are borrowed from the Niva with minor modifications. Drive at ISV, as expected good sports car, rear only. As for the engine, initially the homemade product received a modest engine from the “classics”, 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". Unfortunately, due to his great love for his offspring, Sergey never loaded ISV on 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 driver's comfort as much as possible. And this is not surprising, because the interior is made by hand, it has been repeatedly refined and redone. Here, as well as in the exterior, you can see the concept of interior design worthy of a sports car, some details of which also resemble the style of cars. well-known manufacturers. The ISV has a removable roof, guillotine doors, air conditioning, power steering, a stylish instrument panel from Audi and an audio system.
It is difficult to talk about the price of ISV. The creator himself considers his car priceless and, according to some reports, 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 automotive industry and gave a lot of positive emotions not only to their creators, but also to numerous visitors to various car exhibitions and show. We hope that the number of lovers of creating masterpiece cars in their garage will only grow, which means that we will have reasons for new ratings.
Looking for material for the community kak_eto_sdelano I accidentally stumbled upon a blog in which the author described how he created the car. It was not just some car, but a legendary car with interesting history- Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. I became interested in the history of recreating a car rarity and immersed myself in a fascinating reading about how they made a copy of the legendary car from scratch, and not just a copy, but a car assembled from original parts.
Later, I was able to meet with Sergei, who made his dream come true, and learn some details about the creation of the car. He gave me permission to take text and photos from his blog and make a post for the community readers.
(Total 90 photos + 5 videos)
1. In progress creation of Mercedes The 300SL "Gullwing" used suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107. Remembering that the best is the enemy of the good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Special attention it is worth paying attention to the rear axle gearbox, usually it is with it that the biggest problems arise, which is why customizers love solid axles so much. On a Mercedes, this unit, along with the drives, is assembled on a subframe, which greatly simplifies working with it.
5. exhaust system made of stainless steel complies with the Euro-3 standard, and fuel tank- a real work of art: so that the fuel does not splash, partitions and overflow pipes are installed in it. One of the photos shows a steering wheel lock.
10. In the Gullwing project, it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and a power of 220 hp. paired with an automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of engine was not accidental - it is more powerful, lighter and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a torque converter, many of these units are familiar from the Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic booster was also installed, all units are new, so there should be no problems.
12. Making the body.
13. Back in 1955, Daimler-Benz produced 20 cars with aluminum body and one with composite. We decided to try composite.
15. After the manufacture of the body and assembly of the chassis, the crossing of the body with the frame begins. The process is so painstaking and dreary that no photos and words will convey. Assembly and disassembly, adjustment - all this takes more than one day. Many parts are finalized on site, and the body is bolted to the frame through special dampers in 30 places.
16. All body parts are installed and adjusted - doors, hood, trunk lid. A lot of trouble with glasses - they are attached to rubber seals, and since all seals are original and designed for steel, it is necessary to strictly observe the thickness of the frames of the openings. Each part is removed, adjusted by hand and only then installed in place.
24. Many parts for the most popular rare models are still produced in small batches in some workshops, which is actively used by all restorers. But what is there to hide: the factories themselves fake their rarities, especially Audi and Mercedes have succeeded in this.
25. Many museums have frank copies. So, recently, a lot of "Horkhov" has bred. This is especially interesting, given that all factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years churn out fakes, passing them off as carefully restored products. The devil is in the details.
26. So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every nut and bolt (I'm not talking about rubber bands) has correct labeling 1955. Everything is original, even the seats.
27. The body is already primed, and this is the most important moment, because the composite is a special material in painting, because plasticizers and all sorts of other complex things are needed here. The secrets of the primer are kept, and no one will ever tell you. But it looks nice.
A short video from the painting process
31. In the meantime, the body is being painted, let's prepare the components for assembly. As I said - the devil is in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand of them in the car! Dashboard, she was looking for a very long time.
32. We also find devices and relays, not everything, of course, is obtained immediately.
33. But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel, consisting of 80 (!) Parts.
34. The main thing is that it also works later: the appliances are all expensive. Cheap is not good.
36. The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be pasted over with a chrome film. Yes, shagreen is a must, and the grain should be fine. Now they don’t paint like that anymore, they dilute everything with water, they have ecology, they protect nature. By the way, paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult to paint, any painter will tell you.
41. They finally married the chassis with the body.
45. Installed the doors. It would seem that the matter is simple, but I want to tell you one story. The Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" had many design flaws. One of them was the doors themselves: they were steel, heavy and hinged to the roof of the body, and fixed with a spring enclosed between the hollow steel pipes with hinges at the end.
In extreme top position the spring was compressed, and when the door was lowered, stretching, it slammed the door with a roar. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the resistance of the spring, which simply pulled out the door along with the brackets (900 euros each).
Experienced Gullwing owners know that with inept use, this will inevitably lead to deformation of the roof, and besides, the brackets themselves simply break. The stem and spring assembly has become insanely scarce over time, and its cost has risen to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these units once a season. We decided to go the other way and put gas shock absorbers.
46. It would seem that something is simpler, but it was not there. I had to develop the whole assembly, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, a workshop was found that brought ideas and drawings to life. With full external authenticity, the doors today open like the rear fifth door of a German SUV. The knot turned out to be so successful that it immediately became the object of desire for all owners of rarities, I think that soon all “gullwings” will have doors that open very effectively and smoothly, without knocking. Now this process has really become similar to the flapping of a gull's wing - gracefully and smoothly.
This is just one, and the simplest, example of the tasks that had to be solved when building this car.
47. By the way, the door lock mechanism has also undergone changes. Despite the cost of 1500 euros, it stuck very often and did not fix the door, but that's another story.
49. At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that interior trim was the smallest problem, since at every step there were workshops for altering interiors, so something, but now any master can handle leather. It's business to sheathe a bunch of details with leather, but, as it turned out, this is a HUGE PROBLEM! After four attempts to create interior details in tuning studios, I realized that everything is much more complicated.
Created products by no means wanted to look like the original. Everything looked like a cheap fake: the leather was bristling, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not match, and no one could pick up the material. In short, I began to delve into the subtleties and found out that modern masters are completely unable to work with felt, wool and other materials used at that time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, used foam rubber wherever they could, actively worked with an iron, in short, mercilessly destroyed materials, depriving them of their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability.
After suffering for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have special foam rubber and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, guys under 60 years old, who have been restoring only Mercedes for 40 years. What they showed us and told us is just a novel about leather, and they guard their secrets in much the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar.
The video shows an example of the process.
50. Interior details on my baby did 4 months. The skin is just alive.
51. I will add that the skin that manufacturers offer today is chemical bullshit with impregnations. It is not without reason that all owners of Mercedes and BMWs go nuts after a year of operation - the interiors look like those of old redvans: not fresh, the skin stretches, peels off. As I said earlier, the devil is in the details.
52. I'm not talking about vinyl, widely used by the Japanese, and by all manufacturers in principle. Now in a Mercedes there is not enough leather even for a jacket, one bullshit, that's why options appear - “designo”, “individual”, “exclusive”. Leading manufacturers will offer you real leather for at least 10-15 thousand dollars, but what they sew for you for 50 thousand rubles cannot even be called leather.
54. Wheels - one of important details car. So for our handsome man there were two types of wheels. The first were placed on the civilian version.
55. The latter were offered as an option. They came from sports - real ones, with a central nut. Of course, it's nice to have chrome wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.
56. How then to hit a nut with a hammer, knowing that it is gold? original disc for the classics is also not cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think, I really want to save 8 thousand euros.
57. One of the main factors in the operation of the engine is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to recall here the laws of thermodynamics, I will only say that the last 150 years exhaust pipe is a symbol of progress. Remember locomotive pipes, steamboats, blast furnaces. Remembering my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that was given the closest attention. This is a masterpiece of engineering.
The exhaust system is made of stainless steel, which no manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of thick-walled and thin-walled pipes mounted one inside the other, which, with the complete authenticity of the appearance of the pipe, solved the problem of "gulving" - noise and heating of the passenger compartment . Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved with the help of resonators installed inside the system.
If you want to understand what kind of car you have - look at the exhaust pipe!
Don't pay attention to the date on the photo, just bought a decent fotik. They snapped it off, but they didn’t understand the instructions, it turned out to be the wrong date. Well, to hell with it, everyone interested - enjoy.
58. We have made many changes to the design, we are trying to do everything as authentically as possible. A very clever hand.
59. With a tank, a separate song, they made their own from stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.
63. There is a good saying - it is better to see once than to read about it a hundred times. Everyone who reads and watches my blog knows my favorite expression - THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. These are the details that I will show you today. There is no point in writing for a long time, you will understand everything yourself.
64. Braided harnesses and wires, well, I think you just haven’t seen this yet, a two-tone horn, in short, just look, all this is called TECHNOLOGIES.
67. The main task facing the implementation of this project was to create complete authenticity of all interior details. It would seem that it could be easier than copying an existing sample, but, as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than even restoring.
So, we had to get all the analog devices working and work correctly with electronic blocks modern units; put in a cramped little car a bunch additional equipment such as air conditioning, hydraulic booster, brake booster. All this should work from standard toggle switches and switches. The stove dampers used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga GAZ-21, so the stove had to be thoroughly redone. But most big problem was the manufacture of the gear selector.
68. The whole difficulty lay in the fact that the car was originally built for sports, it was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed at an inclination of 30 degrees so as not to disturb the silhouette of the car. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct articulated drive.
69. There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, and this problem had to be solved. Since a standard engine-box pair was taken, the task became even more difficult, because the automatic box is much larger in size and has a completely different control principle.
71. After much torment, a hinge and a system of rods were designed, which made it possible to completely imitate this assembly, which is easy to verify by looking at the original.
72. Well, the most interesting: if you carefully study the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, this is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so cramped that a person with a height of 180 cm rested his head on the roof and was forced to sit hunched over at the steering wheel, but I like to drive with straight arms, so I had to change the angle of the steering column to ensure comfort and not violate general form. How this was achieved is a novel, from the manufacture of the unique sled to the alteration of the floor and seats.
73. I'm not the first to decide to recreate legendary car. Back in the late 70s, similar attempts were made in America, with Tony Ostermeier, a former mechanical engineer from Gardena, the furthest advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years using units from Mercedes of those years. Today, these machines are themselves rarities.
I saw them, of course, they are not as high quality products as we would like, but this is the best thing that has been done. In the 90s, there were attempts by the American company Speedster, using the Tony matrix, to implant it on the nodes Chevrolet Corvette C03. Only two cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. The cars were sold for 150 thousand dollars.
74. Actually, that's all. True, there were attempts to put a shell on the SL and many more high-profile statements, but all this is zilch, people ran ahead of the locomotive, as with our yo-mobile: there is nothing yet, but 40 thousand applications have already been submitted.
By the way, working with a composite is very difficult. Only its high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, and most importantly: FORGING AND COPYING ARE TWO BIG DIFFERENCES.
75. They say that everything in a car should be perfect - both the engine and the trunk. On the first car, they decided to use gas shock absorbers to open and fix the trunk lid.
76. We have slightly redesigned the filler neck, reasonably considering that if it is hermetically sealed to the trunk lid, this will reduce the risk of spreading the smell of gasoline inside the cabin in case of spillage.
I didn't like the idea. On this car, they made it closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (the steel funnel around the cap should prevent fuel from spilling onto the Carpet).
77. Of course, it could not have done without a collective farm: they built a leather condom around the filler neck. It seems to look nice, and they abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) for fixing the trunk lid. It was possible, of course, to get confused with the springs, as on modern machines, but it seems to me that this will kill the very spirit of the machine. The open trunk looks great.
90. Walk around the car.
I can only add one thing: before you start doing something, think carefully about whether you have enough strength to finish what you started.
After arriving in Russia.
Video from inside the recreated car.
In this video, you can see how the Germans are restoring the hero of the reportage, the same “gullwing”.
This is not just some car, but a legendary car with an interesting history - the Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing". Below is a fascinating reading about how a copy of the legendary car was made from scratch, and not just a copy, but a car assembled from original parts. In the process of creating the Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing", the suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107 was used. Remembering that the best is the enemy of the good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Particular attention should be paid to the rear axle gearbox, usually it is with it that the biggest problems arise, which is why customizers love solid axles so much. On a Mercedes, this unit, along with the drives, is assembled on a subframe, which makes it much easier to work with it. 
The stainless steel exhaust system complies with the Euro 3 standard, and the fuel tank is a real work of art: baffles and overflow pipes are installed in it to prevent the fuel from splashing. In one of the photos - the steering wheel lock 
In the Gullwing project, it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and a power of 220 hp. paired with an automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of engine was not accidental - it is more powerful, lighter and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a torque converter, many of these units are familiar from the Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic booster was also installed, all units are new, so there should be no problems. 
We make a body. 
Back in 1955, the company " Daimler Benz"produced 20 cars with an aluminum body and one with a composite one. We decided to try a composite one. 
After the manufacture of the body and assembly of the chassis, the crossing of the body with the frame begins. The process is so painstaking and dreary that no photos and words will convey. Assembly and disassembly, adjustment - all this takes more than one day. Many details are finalized on the spot, and the body is attached to the frame through special dampers with bolts in 30 places. All body parts are installed and adjusted - doors, hood, trunk lid. There is a lot of trouble with glasses - they are mounted on rubber seals, and since all seals are original and designed for steel, you have to strictly observe the thickness of the frames of the openings. Each part is removed, adjusted by hand and only then installed in place. 
Many parts for the most popular rare models are still produced in small batches in some workshops, which is actively used by all restorers. But what is there to hide, the factories themselves forge their rarities, especially Audi and Mercedes have succeeded in this. 
In many museums there are candid copies. So recently, a lot of "Horkhov" has bred. This is especially interesting, given that all factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years churn out fakes, passing them off as carefully restored products. The devil is in the details. 
So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every nut and bolt (I'm not talking about rubber bands) is correctly marked in 1955. Everything is original, even the seats. 
The body has already been primed, and this is the most important point, because the composite is a special material in painting, because plasticizers and all sorts of other complex things are needed here. The secrets of the primer are kept and no one will ever tell you. But it looks nice. 
In the meantime, the body is being painted, let's prepare the components for assembly. As I said - the devil is in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand of them in the car! Dashboard, she was looking for a very long time. 
We also find devices and relays, of course, not everything turns out right away. 
But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Parts. 
The main thing is that it also works later: the devices are all expensive. Cheap is not good. 
The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be pasted over with a chrome film. Yes, shagreen is a must, well, grain, so that it is fine. Now they don’t paint like that anymore, they dilute everything with water, they have ecology, they protect nature. By the way, paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult to paint, any painter will tell you. 
They finally married the chassis with the body. 
Installed doors. It would seem that the matter is not tricky, but I want to tell you one story. The Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" had many design flaws. One of them was the doors themselves: they were steel, heavy and hinged to the roof of the body, and were fixed by a spring enclosed between hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end. In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when the door was lowered, stretching with a roar, the door slammed shut. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the resistance of the spring, which simply pulled out the door along with the brackets (900 euros each). Experienced owners of "Gullwing" know that with inept use, this will inevitably lead to deformation of the roof, moreover, the brackets themselves simply break. The stem and spring assembly has become insanely scarce over time, and its cost has risen to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these units once a season. We decided to go the other way and install gas shock absorbers. 
It would seem that something easier, but it was not there. I had to develop the whole assembly, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, there was a workshop that brought ideas and drawings to life. With complete external authenticity, the doors today open like the rear fifth door of a German SUV. The knot turned out to be so successful that it immediately became the object of desire for all owners of rarities, I think that soon all "gullwings" will have doors that open very effectively and smoothly, without knocking. Now this process has really become similar to the flapping of a gull's wing - gracefully and smoothly. This is just one, and the simplest example of the tasks that had to be solved when building this car. 
By the way, the door lock mechanism has also undergone changes. Despite the cost of 1500 euros, it stuck very often and did not fix the door, but that's another story. 
At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that interior trim was the smallest problem, since at every step there were workshops for altering interiors, so what, and now any master can handle leather. The business is to sheathe a bunch of details with leather, but as it turned out, this is a HUGE PROBLEM! After four attempts to create interior details in tuning studios, I realized that everything is much more complicated. Created products by no means wanted to look like the original. Everything looked like a cheap fake: the leather was bristling, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not match, and no one could pick up the material. In short, I began to delve into the subtleties and found out that modern masters are completely unable to work with felt, wool and other materials used at that time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, used foam rubber wherever they could, actively worked with an iron, in short, mercilessly destroyed materials, depriving them of their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability either. After suffering for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have special foam rubber and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, uncles, under 60 years old, who have been restoring only Mercedes for 40 years. What they showed us and told us is just a novel about the skin, and they guard their secrets in much the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar. Interior details for my baby were made for 4 months. The skin is just alive. 
I will also add that the skin that manufacturers offer today is chemical bullshit with impregnations. It is not for nothing that all the owners of Mercedes and BMWs go nuts after a year of operation - the interiors look like those of old redvans: stale, the skin stretches, peels off. As I said earlier, the devil is in the details. 
I'm not talking about vinyl, widely used by the Japanese, and by all manufacturers in principle. Now in Mercedes there is not enough leather even for a jacket, one bullshit, that's why options appear - "designo", "individual", "exclusive". Leading manufacturers will offer you real leather for at least 10-15 thousand dollars, but what they sew for you for 50 thousand rubles cannot even be called leather. 
Wheels are one of the important parts of a car. So for our handsome man there were two types of wheels. The first were placed on the civilian version. 
The latter were offered as an option. They came from sports - real ones, with a central nut. Of course, it's nice to have chrome wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying. 
How then to hit a nut with a hammer, knowing that it is gold? The original disc for the classics is also not cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think, I really want to save 8 thousand euros. 
One of the main factors in the operation of the engine is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to recall the laws of thermodynamics here, I will only say that for the last 150 years the exhaust pipe has been a symbol of progress. Remember locomotive pipes, steamboats, blast furnaces. Remembering my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that was given the closest attention. This is a masterpiece of engineering. 
The exhaust system is made of stainless steel, which no manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of thick-walled and thin-walled pipes mounted one into the other, which, with the complete authenticity of the appearance of the pipe, solved the problem of "gulving" - noise and heating of the passenger compartment. Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved with the help of resonators installed inside the system. If you want to understand what kind of car you have - look at the exhaust pipe! Don't pay attention to the date on the photo, just bought a decent fotik. They snapped it off, but they didn’t understand the instructions, it turned out to be the wrong date. We have made many changes to the design, we try to do everything as authentically as possible. A very clever hand. 
With a tank, a separate song, they made their own from stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story. 
There is a good saying - it is better to see once than to read about it a hundred times. My favorite expression, which I have repeated more than once, is THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. These are the details I will show you. There is no point in writing for a long time, you will understand everything yourself. Braided harnesses and wiring, well, I think you just haven’t seen this yet, a two-tone horn, in short, just look, all this is called TECHNOLOGIES. 
The main task facing the implementation of this project was to create complete authenticity of all interior details. It would seem that it could be easier than copying an existing sample, but as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than even restoring. So, we had to make all analog devices work, and work correctly with the electronic units of modern units; stick a bunch of additional equipment into a cramped little car, such as air conditioning, hydraulic booster, brake booster. All this should work from standard toggle switches and switches. The dampers of the stove used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga GAZ-21, so the stove had to be thoroughly redone. But the biggest problem was the manufacture of the gear selector. 
The whole difficulty was that the car was originally built for sports, it was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed at an inclination of 30 degrees so as not to break the silhouette of the car. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct articulated drive. 
There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, and this problem had to be solved. Since a standard engine-box pair was taken, the task became even more difficult, because the automatic box is much larger in size and has a completely different control principle. 
After much torment, a hinge and a linkage system were designed, which made it possible to completely imitate this assembly, which is easy to verify by looking at the original. 
Well, the most interesting: if you carefully study the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, this is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so cramped that a person with a height of 180 cm rested his head on the roof and was forced to sit hunched over at the steering wheel, but I like to ride with straight arms, so I had to change the angle of the steering column to ensure comfort and not disrupt the overall look. How this was achieved is a novel, from the manufacture of the unique sled to the alteration of the floor and seats. 
I'm not the first to decide to recreate the legendary car. Back in the late 70s, similar attempts were made in America, with Tony Ostermeier, a former mechanical engineer from Gardena, the furthest advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years using units from Mercedes of those years. Today, these machines are themselves rarities. I saw them, of course, they are not as high quality products as we would like, but this is the best thing that has been done. In the 90s, there were attempts by the American company Speedster, using the Tony matrix, to implant it on the components of the Chevrolet Corvette C3. Only 2 cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. The cars were sold for $150,000. 
Actually, that's all. True, there were attempts to put a shell on the SL and many more high-profile statements, but all this is zilch, people ran ahead of the locomotive, as with our yo-mobile: there is nothing yet, but 40 thousand applications have already been submitted. By the way, working with a composite is very difficult. Only its high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, and most importantly: forging and copying are two BIG differences. 
They say that everything in the car should be perfect, both the engine and the trunk. On the first car, they decided to use gas shock absorbers to open and fix the trunk lid. We redesigned the filler neck a little, sensibly considering that if it was hermetically sealed to the trunk lid, this would reduce the risk of the smell of gasoline spreading inside the cabin in case of spillage. 
I didn't like the idea. On this car, they made it closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (the steel funnel around the cap should prevent fuel from spilling onto the Carpet). Of course, it could not have done without a collective farm: they built a leather casing around the filler neck. It seems to look nice, and they abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) for fixing the trunk lid. It was possible, of course, to get confused with the springs, as on modern cars, but it seems to me that this will kill the very spirit of the machine. The open trunk looks great. 
And yes, the back looks great. Considering that today everyone already uses tubeless tires, we decided to free up space by placing a stowaway in the trunk instead of a standard wheel. Now at least there is a place to throw a string bag. 
Actually, the case is inexorably moving towards its logical conclusion. Of course, it's nice that everything ends so quickly, all that's left is to rub it with a little paint and stick on the wheels. 
The wheels are temporary so as not to spoil the original. 
That's basically it! 
All parents benefit from educational activities for their children. It would be good for every father to make toys with his own hands together with his children, setting a positive example for them. One of these toys can be a toy car.
There are many photos on the Internet homemade cars, it remains to choose for yourself suitable option and get down to business.
What car to make
To choose to manufacture suitable look crafts, you should soberly assess your strengths and means. If a teenager decides to do this process on his own, then he should start with simple ideas for do-it-yourself cars.
To get started, you can choose crafts made of cardboard and paper. They are relatively easy to make and the supplies and tools are readily available. You only need scissors, glue, and cardboard.
How to do paper machines if there is no design experience at all? Where should I start, and what are the next stages of work? These issues need to be taken seriously. The child must learn to set a task for himself, and be able to solve it.
Cardboard racing car
Consider how to make a machine with your own hands. This will require:
- cardboard cylinder;
- scissors;
- colored paper, and ordinary;
- stationery buttons;
- a set of markers;
- white and black cardboard.
The body of the machine will consist of a cylinder, it is pasted over with paper of any color. 4 black wheels and 4 white wheels are cut out of additional cardboard.
Additional cardboard circles are glued to the end parts of the car so that there are no through holes in the cylinder. Glued mugs can be painted with felt-tip pens.
The wheels are fastened with pushpins in the center of the circle, and their ends are bent from the inside of the cylinder. A small hole for the driver should be cut on top of the finished body. The finished machine is painted with felt-tip pens.
Electronic machine with remote control
Remote control cars are very popular with children. If you did not meet in the store suitable model, then you can assemble it yourself. Today, in every house where there are children, there is a lot of toy trash. It can be selected suitable spare parts and body.
You will need the following:
- wheels;
- frame;
- electric motor;
- different screwdrivers.
Assembly process
Most likely, some parts will have to be purchased. It refers to the control system. If a home-made machine has a simple control panel, then it will be easier and more economical in terms of costs. When installing radio controls, you may have to spend more money on parts.
Having distributed the assembly plan, and the dimensions of the device, you need to start assembling. In the chassis, there must be wheels. The product itself should be without errors, and easy to move. good grip for the machine will provide wheels with rubber tires.
There are two types of motor. Its choice depends on the user who will manage it. If this is a child, then you need to install an electric motor. It will cost less, if possible, it is removed from a broken toy car.
If the machine is intended for adult users, then you can put a gasoline engine on it. It will cost an order of magnitude more expensive, and caring for it will be more difficult.
Wired control will limit the movement of the machine. It is preferable to choose a radio unit, then the product will be able to move independently of the wires. But the movement will also take place only in the radio reach zone.
The choice of body is determined by taste preferences. The variety of models today is simply huge, everything is limited by imagination and budget.
Having prepared all the elements, it is necessary to proceed with the installation. The chassis is mounted first, with wheels. Next, a motor is installed on the frame, and a radio receiver. The antenna is attached to the body. If all components were bought in a store, then installation instructions should be attached.
IN last turn batteries are attached. After debugging the engine, the body is attached to the chassis. The final touch can be decorations from various stickers. The car is ready!
Homemade complex type machine
You can give another instruction on how to make a radio-controlled car. This will require:
- Body of any model;
- Powerful 12V battery;
- radio control;
- Charger;
- Soldering tool and all necessary components to him;
- Electrical measuring instruments;
- Rubber blanks, for bumpers;
Mounting process
The process of step-by-step assembly of the machine is much more complicated than the previous type. Suspension elements are assembled first. Then a gearbox with plastic gears is assembled.
For its installation, a thread is made in the body. Next, the motor is connected to the power supply, and its performance is checked.
Radio circuits are mounted in such a way that overheating does not occur. Sometimes a radiator is attached to them. At the end, the body of the model is assembled. That's all you need to make a radio controlled car.
To homemade car possessed maneuverability, and good speed should be tried not to overload it with unnecessary details.
The presence of headlights and dimensions looks nice, but for their fastening it is necessary to carry out wiring. As a result, this will complicate the design and assembly.
Photo of homemade cars
"You can at any time. Today FURFUR has collected the brightest and craziest cars from garbage, old auto parts and even rusty pots under one hood.
FERRARI JOSH REDDING
Recently in the state of Indiana, USA, appeared new car"Ferrari". True, he does not have a single detail from a real Ferrari, but the car caused a huge stir. Each parking lot turned into a spontaneous photo session.
The car with such a proud name was assembled by Josh Redding - a farmer, and part-time amateur auto mechanic. On the farm, Josh has accumulated a whole bunch of very different garbage: several assorted buckets, an old steam boiler, a large wooden box and even wheels from a construction wheelbarrow. For some reason, Josh did not dare to take all these riches to the landfill. Suddenly, in a pile of rubbish, he saw the outlines of the future "car".
Redding called his craft "Ferrari". The car, of course, came out unsightly, but completely unique. It is much easier to assemble a copy of a real Ferrari. It's impossible to copy Josh's car. Well, who else has the same peeling green bucket under the spotlight? And there is nothing to say about decorative cows under the windshield.
CUSTOMIZED "BEETLE"
A junk car can become a work of art, especially if an artist takes over. An Indian named Hari (for the Indian authorities - Haribaabu Haatesan) bought an old Volkswagen Beetle for a penny. The car was not running, it lacked more than half of the parts, the paint was almost peeled off - the "Beetle" clearly had a place in a car dump ... or in Hari's workshop.
Artists, even in India, people are not the richest. But with lots of free time. Hari did not waste this time: he went to the nearest landfill. For garbage tuning, the most useful miscellaneous items: fragments of broken cars, an old heater, a whole scattering of bottle caps, broken microcircuits.
Part of the new "details" went to the repair of the "Beetle", the rest - to the decor. The resulting machine was named Think Blue. Artfully pasted over with rubbish, Hari's car was covered with gold paint - on such a chariot it is not a shame to come to visit the Raja!
The most interesting thing is that the representative office of Volkswagen in India considered Hari's work the best advertisement for their cars. Now the artist travels around the country and demonstrates the garbage "Beetle" at exhibitions.
HOME-MADE "PORSCHE"
“In the engine bay of the Porsche 997 GT3 RS is a 3.8-liter engine with 450 horsepower. The car accelerates from zero to hundreds in 4 seconds and reaches top speed 310 km / h, ”Austrian Ferdinand Johannes once read something like this in an advertising booklet. Ferdinand understood that he could not afford a car. No matter how he tried to earn money, he could not see 450 horsepower. You can only rely on your own.
It is this principle that Herr Johannes put at the basis of his creation. "Porsche" with a capacity of one human strength - such an ambitious task was set by the Austrian. For six months, he spent his evenings in the garage, building a copy of his four-wheeled dream. Ferdinand fastened plastic tubes and plates onto a metal frame, glued them together with extra strong adhesive tape. The same adhesive tape went to the body trim. From above, the Austrian covered the car with a shiny film.
The “motor” of this lightest and slowest Porsche in history is like a bicycle. Ferdinand gets behind the wheel and pedals. For a Ferdinand GT3 RS car - that is how the Austrian called his creation - it weighs extremely little, only 96 kg. But for a bicycle, this is a record weight. With a fair wind, the racer manages to accelerate his sports car to 10 km / h.
Ferdinand plans to build several more velomobiles. Of course, you won’t be able to ride the girls on it - it’s too hard. Unless to attach two more pedals - for the passenger. But Herr Johannes can definitely drive up to a nightclub effectively.
BOLIDE FROM POTS AND GARBAGE
The Chinese copy absolutely everything. From technical solutions and design finds to screenplays and gadgets. The Chinese managed to release a home-made fifth version of the famous phone a few months earlier than the official "apple" premiere.
It is not surprising that in this country cars are copied by all and sundry. Not too lazy for many. The Zhao brothers from Tianshan swung at Formula 1 - the Chinese car still did not exist. The hard-working brothers worked on the project for 20 years - and created a new "Brother" for themselves. That's what they called the resulting racing car.
The Zhao brothers are Chinese farmers. They had never seen the car live, but the pictures from the magazines were enough for them. The Chinese built the new "Brother" in memory of their father, who worked as a truck driver and died during an earthquake 32 years ago. Now a car in his honor flaunts at the Tienshan Auto Show.
The Chinese have already managed to conduct tests - the car accelerates to 160 km / h. Of course, the result for the "Formula 1" is rather weak, but the "Brother" is made from the wreckage of bicycles, construction waste and old pans. And they never dreamed of such speeds.
ROLLS-ROYCE FROM KAZAKHSTAN
Another left-hander lives much closer - in the city of Shakhtinsk, in Kazakhstan. Ruslan Mukanov, 24, is the only owner of a Rolls-Royce Phantom in the city. In any case, from the outside, his car is definitely indistinguishable from a Rolls-Royce.
500 thousand dollars - that's how much Ruslan would have to pay to buy a real Rolls-Royce. An old beat-up Mercedes 124 cost him only $1,500. Approximately the same amount was spent on “spare parts” for tuning: plasticine, from which Ruslan sculpted the curves of the car, fiberglass and plaster to cover the body, low profile tires and wheels of increased radius. Behind company badge"Rolls-Royce" Ruslan hunted all over Kazakhstan and eventually found ... Do you think where? That's right, in Karaganda.
The mechanic had to go to the capital of Almaty to see what a real Rolls-Royce looks like. Help and drawings from the Internet. As a result, the car turned out to be an almost exact copy of the “royal car”. Only inside Mukanov did not change anything. "Tell everyone it's real Rolls-Royce Phantom, stupid. I think the main thing is that my creation is visually identical to the original. Drive on luxury car, albeit fake, it's also cool! Ruslan explains.
He became a real star of Shakhtinsk. People signal him on the road, take pictures, friends and acquaintances ask for a ride. At the same time, Ruslan is ready to part with his Rolls-Royce for 15-20 thousand dollars. He just decided to assemble a new one, this time even more representative - a black Phantom.
A CAR OF THREE CARS
English engineering thought surpassed the most daring creations of folk auto mechanics. At least three machines merged in welding ecstasy to give birth to this handsome man. Particularly impressive is the "winged" hood.
Apparently, the creator of the English "supercar" often visits the car dump. In addition, he is not alien to the love of original forms and unusual color combinations.
The name of the owner is not precisely established, but it is known that he sells his craft - for as much as $ 4,000! This car was listed on eBay for two years, but was recently pulled from the auction by the owner. Either he decided to ride it himself, or the buyer was still found.
BATMOBILE
A separate fad for car enthusiasts is Batmobiles. If it is still possible to buy the same Rolls-Royce with a very strong desire and selling oneself into slavery, then it is impossible to buy a Batmobile. The one that belongs to the film studio is usually not for sale, and even fake. And the real Batman will not sell his car - he needs it himself.
As a result, fans of fancy movie cars get out as best they can. Someone thinks that it is enough to cover the car with a dark cloth, make a spoiler and draw winged icon Batman - and the car is ready to defend goodness and justice. But the American Bob Dallem approached the matter much more thoroughly.
Bob wanted a Tumblr car from the Batman movie series directed by Christopher Nolan. Dallem watched the film at least a hundred times and took screenshots of all the frames with Batman's brutal car. On the Internet, he found several Tumblr fan drawings, finalized them, and set to work. Luckily, he had a two-car garage.
Bob spent at least 50 thousand dollars to create his monster. New engine V8 produces 355 hp here, and you should have bought more automatic box gears, huge bigfoot wheels and carbon glass for the cladding. Batman's car can't be cheap! As a result, Bob turned out to be a real masterpiece.
Dall will never part with his Tumblr, no matter how much money he is offered. He made a car for himself! Apparently, Batman was guided by the same principle.
Text: Nikita Puryzhinsky
