I love this scratch-built old-school Indie race car for kids. It was built on an aircraft-style stringer frame with a riveted sheet aluminum skin. There are fun details on it, like a sliced-in-half 50s kitchen canister for the front bumpers, a malt shaker for the headrest, and a maraschino cherry jar for the radiator cap (seen in finished pic above).
From the fertile mind of Joseph Ihnat, part 1 – Poppen’s Special kid’s racer
Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture, including the first book about the web (Mosaic Quick Tour) and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots. He is currently working on a best-of collection of his writing, called Borg Like Me.
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one for each of my kids please!
That is a pretty neat looking car! While I was checking that out, I couldn’t help but think of the post we just did on the making of our limousines:
http://www.captainlimousines.com/content/view/78/51
Its the first in a series of two about how we stretch our cars. Check it out.
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