People get into their hobbies. I understand that, really, I do. But this takes the cake: it seems some crazy French Ferrari enthusiast spent 15 years constructing an exact 1:3 scale model of his favorite car. And when I say “exact,” I mean exact:
This 12-cylinder engine just isn’t any 12-cylinder engine, it is a 1:3 scale Ferrari 12-cylinder engine with the same beautiful sound. It took Pierre six months of running the engine on his own dynamometer to tune the header pipes so they would give off the same sound value as he had recorded from the engine of the real car. Once Pierre had the engine bolted together for the first time, it started on the very first try and, since then, has logged more than fifty hours of running time with no failures or refusals to start (It’s probably more reliable than the real engine).
I suddenly feel strangely… inadequate.
I don’t understand. Is this meant to be driven by a 1:3 size person? On a 1:3 size road? In a 1:3 size town?? Why 1:3 and not, say, 2:5? This all seems terribly arbitrary to me.
But I respect the dude’s dedication!
I know you were being funny, Robert, but I wonder if maybe 1:3 was the smallest he could go and still have eveything be fully functional in the same sense as a full-zied car. If you went smaller you could still make it functional, using LEDs for headlights and such, but it wouldn’t really operate in the same way as the full-sized model, would it?
Whatever his motives, you’re right about the guy’s dedication. I don’t have that kind of discipline or ambition, myself. 🙂
Looks like he’s up to more model making. Take a look at the construction process…
http://www.mps-sportproto.com/en/modeles.php
Thanks for the link, Mike. Fascinating stuff…
Personally, I’d like to know what kind of financial resources this guy has available, and where he acquired them. Rich guy with lots of time on his hands? Middle-class guy who took out a second (third, fourth) mortgage?