Bodies from raw sheet metal with barely any tools!

Came accross this on the net not long ago. Seems that this guy is making bodies out of rolls of steel and slapping them on to beat up old cars to create "supercars".

The cars might not be HAMB friendly, but I was curious about the metal he is using, because it looks fairly soft, and easy to work into a body.

This choice of metal seems like it can't be a good idea....or is it?

Thoughts??

By the way, note the distinct lack of tools!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGpo7KRzTyI

 

the show continues in London where they screw up another 10 cars ,
interesting show but the first one at the link is the best ,

amazing what you can do with no tools and lots of workers....

beaulieu

 

LOL! Dude reminds me of Chip Foose... maybe it's the hair!

~Jason

 

I just wasted 10 minutes I'll never be able to get back. I could have taken a nap.

 

Brilliant, that's how I work, not quite as extreme, but I always try to make stuff, before I order anything.

 

old news...

 

what is that soft sheet metal they start with ?

I could see using that on non stuctural parts like hood scoops etc....

Beaulieu

 

People who have learned how to manipulate and shape sheet metal can make it look easy, it isn't at all, but people can make it look easy.

 

Maybe i missed something here,but i didnt see anything really being done there.

 

Well, that's only part 1 of 3. Looks interesting to me. I've never seen it before.

 

Gotta watch the other 2 parts...

 

that was crazy.

 

That may not be the safest or fastest car out there but man if it only took one month for that guy and his team to make that shit box in to that red racer.... He has some F'n talent!!

 

The finished car is out of scale but, I'm amazed at what they were able to achieve with such basic tools...

 

At first I thought I had wasted 8 min. 11 sec.......but in fact it wasn't wasted........I learned to speak Mujibur and shit Syrajule. AaaalliiiiAlllaaahhhhhbbaaaahhhhhdddaaahhhhhhhh.........wookie wookie wookie aaaaaaallliiiiiaaaaahhhhhhaaabbbbbaaahhhhhhhddddddiiiiiiiiiiwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

I just said a prayer I learned from this show for all of the other innocent people who might watch it too!

 

I watched that whilst living in India for a year. If you want your 10 minutes back, how do you think I feel about my year?

While it's interesting to see him take a pile of used shit and make it shiny is rather clever, but to me it is just a shiny rat rod.

 

I watched #1 and #3 with a lot of FFWD, dunno why, guess I'm a sucker for freakshows.

Anyway, racer is a liberal term for what they did. Restyled yes, but otherwise scabbed together from a limited menu of parts. Looked like most parts were chosen out of necessity rather than freedom of choice. Personally felt very sorry for the dude that used to work on ferraris. A lot harder to fabricate the mechanicals of a race car from total scratch than it is the body.

BTW, the bodies appeared to be nice even if the styling was local flavored and almost VW kit carish.

 

That's neat. Thanks for posting.

 

Interesting. Looks kind of like the car from Corvette Summer.

 

Imagine what he could do if he had good taste and something cool to start with.

 

You better hope no producers read this thread. The only thing worst than corvette summer, would be corvette summer as a bollywood musical. And the blame for it's bastard DNA would lie squarely with you.

 

Supercar? Do they come in 1800cc?

 

that RULES... reminded me of working with BLEED.

Tuck

 

Bollywood Corvette Summer? Sounds like a Family Guy flashback.


Oh my god! I may have created a monster. Please forgive me!

 

Cut the guy some slack. I'm impressed.
Considering the fact that he started with a 10 gallon bucket of rust and dog shit, plus the fact that he has nothing resembling the metal working tools we [here in the west] take for granted... Plus the fact that he did all of this in a friggin 3rd world country.

Bottom line, the Dude's got tallent. If he had started with some better bones it would have been amazing.

 

sounds like a hondaaaaa.

seriously though, thats some nice fuckin work for such a small amount of time.

I see alot of that "I wouldnt have done that, so its a POS" attitude here, ha.

 

check out Chop Shop: London Garage, when they did the same work in London,

the guy has talent but no style, if you see the ugly piles he built you might agree,

the show is OK, you learn a few things on how to build a car from a junker , but check out the 8-10 inch wheel spacers and you see how unsafe most of the builds are....

Beaulieu

 

See why they needed to raise it an inch, after the bondo and steel it probably weighs as much as a excursion.

 

i seen this a few months ago... pretty impressive work if they'd take the time to stick the things on a decent chassis and have a safe car...