Build a Lambo in your basement

[PocketThunder]

http://jalopnik.com/5069251/exclusive-i-am-the-guy-with-a-lamborghini-in-the-basement

My college roommates brother works with this guys good friend.

Maybe i need to try and find a way to get my Charger into my basement so i can get more work done on it in during our long cold winters that we have up here in Minnesnowda.

[jeryst]

Wow! And I think I've accomplished something when I make breakfast.

[Magnumcharger]

I definitely can empathise with this guy!

[BigBlockSam]

Wow! And I think I've accomplished something when I make breakfast.

me too

[Troy]

He's a master of understatement...

Open headers in a basement, no matter how ready you are for it, will catch you off guard.

Troy

[Charger_Fan]

He's a master of understatement...

Open headers in a basement, no matter how ready you are for it, will catch you off guard.

Troy

I wonder if he meant himself or his wife?


So I wonder if he's gonna turn that dirt ramp into cement & slap a roll-up door in that wall opening? I would.

[bull]

A homemade Lambo kit car! Wow.

[Old Moparz]

Pretty cool, but I'd have done it in the living room since I'd be able to open & close a wall a lot easier & faster than digging a hole & busting up block. 

[hotrod98]

He's a master of understatement...

Open headers in a basement, no matter how ready you are for it, will catch you off guard.

Troy

Yeah, like the time I fired my alcohol dragster in the trailer. Whoops.
Me and a couple of friends still suffer from a little hearing loss from that one. 

[Mike DC]

 
I wonder whether that's really any less work than trying to restore a 40yo rusted out example of a given car.

 
A hand-built aluminum 68-70 Charger would be pretty awesome. 

[Brock Samson]

Back in the mid '80s I too built a Lambo in my garage...
maybe not quite as true to the original as this guys but the only tools i had were a bottle opener and a hammer.

         

[RallyeMike]

I wonder whether that's really any less work than trying to restore a 40yo rusted out example of a given car.

Wonder no longer. The answer is ... definitely NO.

I love reading stories like this. It's amazing what people can accomplish. I remember a 40's truck in Hot Rod that the guy took and shrunk down to 4/5 size over winter. Every piece of the frame and body! And then had the balls to paint it black. His reasoning? There was nothing good on TV.

[Mike DC]

I'd believe the resto takes longer too.  The guy in the article didn't really build an exact Lambo, he put a life-sized replica of one together with sheet aluminum and steel square tubing underneath it all. 




I think he's very lucky he picked a car that actually still seems cool to have after 10-20 years. 


Current price of a used mid-80s Lambo Countach - $100,000

Current price of a used mid-80s used Lotus Esprit - $15,000 


   

[RallyeMike]

I'd believe the resto takes longer too.

From building a car from nothing (scratch)?! No way. Not EVEN close.

[PocketThunder]

I'd believe the resto takes longer too.

From building a car from nothing (scratch)?! No way. Not EVEN close.

  when you start from  a set of prints vs. cutting out rust you are already ahead of the game.

[Mike DC]

From building a car from nothing (scratch)?! No way. Not EVEN close.

But we wouldn't be talking about building an exact replica of a Charger.  Not one that 10,000 parts from an AMD or YearOne catalog will bolt right up to.



This guy's car relates to a TRUE stock Lambo the same way a 1970s NASCAR relates to a production 3rd-gen Charger.  This guy took the basic dimensions of a Lambo, built a square tubing frame to hold the hand-pounded outer skin panels together, and then race-car'd the insides of it.

[greenpigs]

What a waste of a Pantera.