In our time, it is difficult to surprise with some new car model, but a self-made vehicle has always attracted attention and excitement. A person making a car with his own hands will face two scenarios. The first is admiration for the creation, and the second is the smile of others at the sight of an invention. If you look at it, then there is nothing difficult in assembling a car with your own hands. A self-taught engineer is only required to know the design of the car and the basic properties of its parts.
Historical facts
Certain historical conditions preceded the start of car construction. During the existence of the union, mass production of cars was carried out. They could not meet the individual needs of the consumer. That is why self-taught inventors began to look for ways out of this situation and did it by designing home-made cars.
In order to make one car with your own hands, three non-working ones were required, of which all were removed necessary spare parts... If we take into account the people living in remote villages, then they most often improved various bodies, thereby increasing their capacity. Cars began to appear that had high cross-country ability and could even overcome water. In short, all efforts were devoted to simplifying life.
A separate category of people attached great importance to the appearance of the car, and not just its technical properties. In addition to beautiful passenger cars, sports cars, which were not much inferior to the factory copies. All these inventions not only amazed others, but also became full-fledged participants in the road traffic.
In times Soviet Union there were no specific restrictions on homemade vehicles. Bans appeared in the 80s. They concerned only certain parameters and technical characteristics of the car. But most people could get around them by registering one vehicle with the relevant authorities under the guise of a completely different one.
What you need to assemble a car
To proceed directly to the assembly process itself, you need to think over everything in detail. You need to clearly understand how to do future car, and what technical characteristics it should have. First, you need to determine for what purposes the car will be used, and then implement the idea. If you need a frank workhorse, then in order to make it yourself, you will need special materials and parts. It is also important to make the body and frame of the car as resistant to loads as possible. When a car is made only for driving, the question is only in its appearance.
How to make a car with my own hands for a child, you can learn from the following video:
How to make drawings
You should not trust your head and imagination, it would be better and more correct to think about exactly what the car should be. Then transfer all available considerations to paper. Then it is possible to correct something, and as a result, a drawn copy of the future car will appear. Sometimes, for complete confidence, two drawings are made. The first depicts appearance the car, and on the second a more detailed image of the main parts in detail. Before drawing, you need to prepare everything necessary tools, that is, a pencil, eraser, drawing paper and a ruler.
Nowadays, there is no need to draw a picture for a long time using a regular pencil. To facilitate this task, there are special programs with wide capabilities and with their help you can make any drawing.
Advice! If there are no engineering programs, then the usual Word test editor will help in this situation.
With a strong desire, you can make any car with your own hands. If there are no own considerations, then ready-made ideas and drawings can be borrowed. This is possible because most people involved in the creation of homemade cars do not hide their ideas, but, on the contrary, present them to the public.
Kit-cars
In the vastness of the countries of Europe and America, the so-called "kit-cars" have become widespread. So what is it? This is a certain number of different parts with which you can make a car with your own hands. Kit cars have become so popular that many options have appeared that allow you to fold any desired car model. The main difficulty is not in the assembly, but in the registration of the car obtained as a result of the assembly.
To fully work with the kit car, you must have a spacious garage. It also requires toolboxes and knowledge. If you do not have certain skills, then the work will not give the desired result. If the work is done with the help of assistants, the assembly process will be faster and more fruitful.
This kit includes everything from small screws and instructions to large parts. For a full-fledged work, there should be no serious difficulties. It should be noted that the instructions are not in printed form, but are presented in a video master class, where everything is considered to the smallest detail.
It is very important to assemble the vehicle correctly. This is necessary in order for the creation to comply with all the standards and norms prescribed in the regulations of the traffic police. Since the failure to comply with the points leads to problems with the installation of the vehicle on record with the relevant authorities.
Advice! If possible, then you can consult with experts in this field.
You can learn more about what kit cars are and how to make them from the following video:
Designing a car using materials at hand
To make the task of assembling a home-made car as easy as possible, you can take the base of any other car that fully functions as a basis. It is best to take the budget option, since it is never known in which direction the experiments will lead. If there are old worn parts, then they must be replaced with serviceable ones. If possible, you can make parts with your own hands on lathes, but this is if you have professional skills.
First of all, you need to start assembling the car with the body, instruments and necessary interior parts. Modern inventors use fiberglass for the bodywork, and before that there was no such material, and plywood and tin material were used.
Attention! Fiberglass is a sufficiently elastic material that allows you to implement any idea, even the most unusual and original.
The availability of materials, spare parts and other components makes it possible to design a car that, in terms of external parameters and appearance, will not be inferior to the car models of the most leading car manufacturers in the world. This requires ingenuity, good imagination and some knowledge.
DIY supercar:
Fiberglass car construction
Start assembling a car made of fiberglass from the moment you select a suitable chassis. After that, the selection of the necessary units is carried out. Then it is worth moving on to the layout of the interior and the fastening of the seats. Upon completion of this, the chassis is reinforced. The frame must be very reliable and strong, since all the main parts of the car will be mounted on it. The more accurate the dimensions of the space frame, the better the fit of the parts.
For the manufacture of the body, it is best to use fiberglass. But first you need to make a base, that is, a frame. Foam sheets can be attached to the surface of the frame, as closely as possible to the existing drawings. Then, as needed, holes are cut, and, if there is a need, the parameters are adjusted. After that, fiberglass is attached to the surface of the foam, which is putty and cleaned on top. It is not necessary to use foam, any other material with a high level of plasticity will be useful. This material can be a continuous canvas of sculptural plasticine.
It should be noted that fiberglass tends to deform during operation. The reason is exposure to high temperatures. To maintain the shape of the structure, it is necessary to strengthen the frame with pipes from the inside. All excess parts of fiberglass must be removed, but this should be done after it is completely dry. If everything is done correctly and there are no other works regarding the design, you can proceed to the interior equipment and electronics fasteners.
If in the future it is planned to re-design, then a special matrix can be made. Thanks to her, the body making process will be faster and easier. The matrix is applicable not only to make a vehicle with your own hands from scratch, but also to improve the condition of your own car. Paraffin is taken for manufacturing. To get a flat surface, you need to paint it on top. This will increase the convenience of fastening parts for a new car body.
Attention! With the help of a matrix, the entire body is made completely. But there is an exception - this is the hood and doors.
Conclusion
In order to implement the existing idea and make a car with your own hands, there are a number of suitable options. All sorts of working details will be helpful here.
With your own hands, you can make not only a passenger car, but also a larger and more powerful truck. In some countries, craftsmen manage to earn decent money from this. They make cars to order. Cars with various original details body.
How to make a Porsche with your own hands:
Making a car with your own hands is a task worthy of a real man. Many ponder, some take, only a few bring it to completion. We decided to tell the stories of machines made, as they say, on the knee. We'll talk about the work of professional body shops, including type A: Level or ElMotors, another time.
The case of the masters of the East
Most of the homemade people are in the so-called developing countries. Not everyone can afford an expensive car, but everyone wants to. And copyright in these countries is viewed, shall we say, in a peculiar way, not in a European way.It's easy to find a video on the web about a whole factory of self-made supercars in Bangkok. These are ten times cheaper than the original. Now it is no longer working: apparently, the German journalists who filmed the video about the self-made people did them a disservice, and the local authorities started thinking about the missing licenses of the “craftsmen” and the safety of the cars they riveted. Of course, these crafts were not specially crash tested.
It is interesting that, in principle, the Thais could withstand supercars - they made space frames from metal profiles and pipes and “dressed” them in fiberglass bodies. In most cases, home-builders simply take old cars, cut off the "extra" body panels and hang their own. For example, this replica of the Bugatti Veyron from India is built using this technology. An ambitious project, right by the saying "to love - so the queen, to steal - so a million." The author and owner used an old Honda Civic as the basis. And he tried - outwardly, the copy turned out to be worthy: it's not for nothing that the audience is so attentively examining it.
Another Indian, former actor, current social reformer, concocted a parody of the Veyron from a Honda Accord. It turned out creepy. Another one took the Tata Nano as a basis. Let me remind you that this is officially the cheapest production car in the world with peculiar proportions. Very weak and slow. However, the author of this project is clearly not devoid of a sense of humor, because Veyron, on the contrary, is one of the most expensive, powerful and fastest production cars.Landfill Supercars
The Chinese do not lag behind their Thai and Indian colleagues. The young worker of the glass factory Chen Yanxi did not begin or parody someone else's design, but made his own, author's. And even though his car looks decent only from a distance, and it drives only 40 km / h (the installed electric motor no longer allows it), I don't want to laugh at Chen. Well done, that went his own way. More often it happens otherwise.
Three years ago, 26-year-old Chinese property manager Li Weilei was so impressed with Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" Batmobile Tumbler that he built it. It took him and four friends 70,000 yuan (about $ 11,000) and only two months of work. Lee took the steel for the body from the landfill, shoveling 10 tons of metal. To offset the cost, he now rents out his Toggle Switch for photography and video filming, for just $ 10 a month. But renters must be ready to roll the replica manually. The car cannot drive, since it has neither a power unit, nor a functional steering. In addition, in the PRC, only cars produced by certified manufacturers are released on the roads.
Another Chinese craftsman, Wang Jian from Jiangsu province, made his own "copy" of the Lamborghini Reventon from an old Nissan minivan and Volkswagen sedan Santana. And he also dragged metal from the landfill. I spent 60,000 yuan ($ 9.5 thousand) on this case. By the car carburetor engine, it smokes mercilessly, it lacks an interior and even glass, but the author himself likes the result, and the neighbors believe that Jian's car quite accurately copies the Lambo. The author claims that he is able to accelerate to 250 km / h on his supercar. Nobody risks reassuring him.
As you can see, most DIYers love to copy Ferrari and Lamborghini. Externally. Inside this car, designed by Mr. Meath from Thailand, there is a motorcycle Lifan engine with a volume of a quarter liter.
The funniest and most touching creation is by the Chinese farmer Guo from Zhengzhou. He made a Lambo for ... his grandson. The car has children's dimensions - 900 by 1800 mm and an electric motor that allows it to accelerate to 40 km / h. A battery of five batteries lasts for 60 km. Guo spent $ 815 on his brainchild and six months of work.
A Vietnamese auto mechanic from Bakjiang province has created a kind of Rolls-Royce, using a "seven" for this. I bought it for 10 million dong (about $ 500). I spent another 20 million on "tuning". Most of the money went to metal, electrodes and a Rolls-Royce grille, ordered from a local workshop. It turned out rough. But the guy became famous. A real Rolls-Royce Phantom in Vietnam is worth about VND 30 billion.
Samavto-2017
In the vastness of the former USSR, the traditions of self-construction are also strong. During the Soviet years, there was a movement called "samauto" that united enthusiasts of home-made cars and motorcycles. And there were a lot of them, because in those years it seemed that it was easier to assemble a car with your own hands than to buy - despite the total shortage of spare parts and bureaucratic obstacles. And what interesting projects were born in those years! JNA, Pangolina, Laura, Ichthyander and others ... Yes, there were people. However, they stayed.
Several years ago I wrote about the brainchild of a Muscovite Yevgeny Danilin called an SUV that resembles the Hummer H1, but significantly surpasses it in cross-country ability.
Immediately I remember my old acquaintance with Alexander Timashev from Bishkek. His workshop ZerDo Design in the 2000s created a whole series of interesting homemade products, the first of which was the "Barkhan", also a kind of Hammer based on the GAZ-66. Then there was the Mad Cabin, a type of American hot rod made from the cab of the ZIL-157 army truck - Zakhara. ...
The "Frenzied Cab" was followed by homemade products in retro style - the so-called replicars, speedster and phaeton. And for them, Kyrgyz craftsmen made not only bodies and interiors, but even frames.
This is not some kind of tuning there, spreading out of boredom in the "decaying bourgeois society." Just think - attach a "lip" to the bumper, repaint the hood or hang an elaborate wing on the trunk! Is it weak to build an entire car from scratch? More than one thousand Soviet citizens could, instead of answering this question, present a car made with their own hands - personally or in a team with friends. The most active of them, under the patronage of state bodies, regularly gathered for grandiose all-Union races, promoting technical creativity among the masses and raising the level of automotive culture. And the masses reciprocated: in each "transit" city such traveling auto festivals gathered tens of thousands of spectators - whole stadiums, filled central squares and avenues to overflowing. Yes, to some extent it replaced us, then, the current annual auto shows and auto exhibitions. However, it was something more than the narrow-minded interest of the consumer who comes with a prepared wallet to the pavilions of fashionable motor shows shining with soffits.
Who and why?
But in addition to hundreds of public "self-made", along with their creations, rightly favored by the attention of DOSAAF, central television and popular science magazines, there was a much larger number of craftsmen who built a car exclusively for themselves. Not wanting to waste their tariff leave on high-profile all-Union events, they quietly and modestly exploited their once-created exclusive for personal needs. And in almost every city of the Union one could find at least one, or even several cars that have no analogues anywhere in the world.
Used photos from the archive of Sergei Iones
Who were they - these people, the owners of an absolute car exclusive? After all, not sheikhs from the Emirates, not princes, and not even the heirs of overseas grandmothers-millionaires ... To make yourself a car, in the conditions of the USSR it was enough to have self-confidence and be a technically savvy person. There were plenty of citizens with such qualities then. Why didn't they buy themselves a ready-made production car? Not because it was expensive - building a homemade product cost no less money than at least a second-hand Moskvich. There are several reasons: the limited type of production cars, the desire to stand out among the comrades, and most importantly - the itch of creativity and the desire to express oneself in working with technology. But the feat of Soviet self-made workers is different: as a rule, entering the path of the Samavto movement, they doomed themselves to many years of hard work in their free time. That is - without days off, vacations, gatherings over dominoes or beer. The USSR record for the speed of building a car is 8 months (resident of the Armenian SSR Lev Sahakyan), and the average figure is perhaps 3-4 years, since many have been working on the "theme" for ten to fifteen years.
How did they do it?
Not all, but still most of the amateur designers had a detailed project, which they more or less strictly adhered to throughout the work. Many components and technical solutions were finalized "on the fly", and more often - "on site." Despite the approving attitude of the party and the government towards self-made people, the state did not allow anarchy in the field of transport. Were officially legalized " Technical requirements To passenger cars made individually ". They limited, for example, the volume of the engine and the dimensions of homemade products, prescribed the use of the most important systems (brakes, steering, lighting) factory-made. Over the years, the government's confidence in amateur designers has grown: in 25 years, "Technical requirements" have changed four times, each time becoming more liberal. If in the 1960s and 70s it was allowed to equip homemade cars only motorcycle engines, then in the next edition of the "Technical Requirements" from 1980 the volume of the permitted engine increased to 1.2 liters - and this is the engine of the "eared" Zaporozhets (40 hp) or the "first" model of Zhiguli (58 hp). )! And since 1987, it was possible to use power units of any volume, provided the specific power of the car was within 24-50 hp. per ton of gross weight.Basement masterpieces
The main problem for many self-made people was the workplace - a workshop where the creator could create his brainchild for several years. After all, the vast majority of car models belonged to the townspeople. And they, as a rule, lived in comfortable apartments and had no place for technical creativity. Therefore, they had to turn these apartments into workshops. During the few years that work on the car lasted, the patient family huddled in the kitchen and one or two remaining rooms. There are cases when not only individual units, but even bodies were created in high-rise buildings. The problem of lowering the finished product to the ground against the background of many years of work on the creation of the car looked trifling. So, some resorted to the help of ropes and the muscle strength of friends (like the Muscovites Shcherbinin brothers), others used a truck crane (like Henrikh Matevosyan from Yerevan), others used cables stretched at a slope from the balcony to the ground - they rolled the car along them, as if on rails, placing instead of wheels, bare disks. At the same time, such trifles as the need to dismantle the balcony frames or disassemble the Khrushchev roof did not stop anyone. Against this background, self-made people who had at least some basement or shed at their disposal seemed lucky to their “colleagues”.Technologies
It would seem, what is easier - take, say, a "Zhiguli" chassis, "put" your body on top of it - and get unique car... But it was so uninteresting. Therefore, many authors have designed their own undercarriage... There are known cases of manufacturing and motors of their own design: in an era of scarcity, it was easier for some to make an engine themselves than to wait for the opportunity to buy it in a store. Moreover, in the 1980s, the unsightly-looking "Spring" machine designed by Vladimir Mironov gained wide popularity - with an unprecedented in the USSR automatic transmission: V-belt variator of our own production! At that time, few people knew about similar units of small cars DAF in our country, and only drivers of LiAZ buses and government limousines had the happiness of driving "automatic".
If the shortage of auto components and the aforementioned "Technical Requirements" held back the fantasies of self-made people as designers and constructors, then from the point of view of technology, the freedom of creativity was complete. Most often, the body was made of reinforced plastic - building fiberglass (or even ordinary burlap), impregnated with epoxy resin. Depending on the patience and aspirations of the author, the details were glued onto a blank (it's easier) made of wood, plaster or clay, or into a matrix (this is many times more difficult). Matrix technology besides best quality the surface of the parts made it possible to subsequently replicate the body in small series, which in some cases was done. The load-bearing base of the fiberglass car was either the body itself (it turned out to be heavy), sometimes reinforced with load-bearing metal elements built into it (saving in weight), or a frame welded from water pipes. Some did not trust plastic, in the old fashioned way tapping out body parts from steel sheet or welding them from small fragments-patterns. A progressive method was applied by a resident of Mariupol V. Mileiko: he “stamped out” the convex roof for his “Melody” by firing two double-barreled shotguns into a sheet of iron ...
Glasses had to be used from serial cars, although over time the standard windshield "triplexes" the craftsmen got used to cut to the desired shape. The issue of the lack of metallic paint on sale was solved, as they said, in an innovative way: by purchasing a manicure varnish in the nearest haberdashery (an option, by the way, is not cheap).
Bureaucracy
To obtain a registration certificate and numbers, it was necessary to provide the traffic police with a document from the technical commission on the safety of the built vehicle. Usually, such a conclusion was issued by the VDOAM cell - the All-Union Voluntary Society of Automobile Amateurs. However, in the outback, the issue could be solved in a simpler way - the creator of one of the unique cars said that he received the license plates immediately after a half-hour test drive of his brainchild, carried out personally by the head of the traffic police. Apparently, in many cases, officials turned a blind eye to obvious violations of standards by designers: for example, some interesting cars equipped with engines more powerful than officially allowed at the time of their birth. Another serious problem was paper: for each unit used in the car, as well as all parts and materials, it was necessary to provide a check or other document confirming the legality of the purchase. Meanwhile, in a country with a non-market economy, commodity relations of citizens were often reduced to an agreement “for a bottle” or, in general, “for friendship”. And many more parts and assemblies borrowed from serial cars appeared in such papers as "written off" - that is, allegedly having served their time in the transport of a state ATP, a plant, a collective farm.Restyling exclusive
Naturally, many amateur designers did not stop at what they had achieved, and after registering the car, they continued to improve it. Moreover, sometimes a new, more advanced one was built under the documents of an already built, long-registered car - fortunately, the photo was not attached to the registration certificate. Thanks to the bodies of durable stainless fiberglass, we still have the opportunity to see some of the truly unique home-made cars today. And what is doubly gratifying, they are often kept in museum collections. One of the little-known custom built cars. Its metal body amazes with the laboriousness of its manufacture: all rounded surfaces are made up of dozens of shaped pieces of sheet steel carefully fitted according to patterns and then welded. In addition, the car has a home-made three-cylinder engine: its creator, Muscovite O. Kucherenko, did not wait for the engine of the permitted volume to arrive at the store.
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CD ("Sport-900"): (1969)
The stylish coupe of the passenger formula "2 + 2" was created on the basis of the units of the "humpback" ZAZ-965. The car is rear-engined, the fiberglass body is set on a flat tubular frame, the curb weight is only 500 kg. Several like-minded people participated in the project, for each of whom a fiberglass body was glued into a single matrix. It took seven years to build the machines. The total number of bodies is 5 or 6, the exact number of complete vehicles is at least four. Several of them have survived to this day.
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GTSCH (1969)
One of the most famous homemade cars Soviet period, in its name the surname of the brothers-authors is encrypted: "Gran Turismo Shcherbinins". The engine from the GAZ-21 Volga accelerated the coupe to 150 km / h. Anatoly and Vladimir welded the frame of a car under construction in the courtyard of a high-rise building. Then they took her to an apartment on the seventh floor, where they gradually “dressed” her with body panels glued from fiberglass. After that, the finished body was lowered down again, and it was completed in the yard. power unit, suspension, cladding, interior. Having survived two "restyling", the car has survived to this day.
Doe (1972)
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A typical custom-built car that has never been seen before at home-made parties. Sedan with a two-door body (tudor). Built by a resident of the Lugansk (formerly Voroshilovgrad) region during the early "Samavto". Based on units and parts of production vehicles; over time it was modernized - a more powerful engine from the VAZ-2101 was installed. The body is fiberglass, with a harmonious, stylistically consistent design. The car was operated in Lisichansk until the mid-2000s, and has survived to this day.
"Triton" (1985)
This unique transport is registered both in the traffic police and in the State Inspection of Small Vessels. The engine is from the Volga GAZ-21, the transmission is from the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets. Unlike many other amphibians, Triton feels confident both on land and on water. Thanks to its excellent axle weight distribution (50:50), the machine is smooth and stable on the highway. The propeller on the water is a water cannon that allows you to move in shallow water, the propeller on the ground is the wheels. In planing mode on the water, they rise up along the sides with a cable winch. For long water voyages, the wheels can be removed completely, for which the hydraulic brake lines are equipped with quick-acting "dry" connectors.
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"Mercury" (1980)
We can say that this is a VAZ-2106 with a coupe body. In addition to the aggregate base of the "six", its steel bottom is also used, which serves as the basis for fastening the suspension elements and the fiberglass body. Irresponsible parts are made of burlap, impregnated with epoxy resin, and fiberglass is used, in particular, for pasting the standard metal bottom of the VAZ-2106. Five copies were built: two in Tbilisi and three in Moscow. The first, "starter" copy was built in a Moscow basement. Several cars have survived, one of them converted into an electric car.
"Centaur" (1984)
Many people dream of their own car, but only a few find the strength, inspiration and desire to work hard and painstakingly on creating their own dream car. It is these desperate self-taught people who do automotive world more interesting, saving him from the boredom of 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 self-made cars from around the world. Our rating includes really worthy homemade products that can be sent to mass production even today without fear of low demand. Most of the cars in the rating can easily compete with cars large manufacturers, but, unfortunately, they will forever remain in a single copy, delighting the audience except at various auto shows. However, this is what makes them special, inimitable, unique, and allows their owners to feel like heroes who have managed to truly create decent car... So let's get started.
There are only five homemade products in our rating. It could have been more, but we decided to limit ourselves only to cars that have passed all the necessary certification and registered, i.e. all participants in the rating are allowed to ride on public roads without any restrictions. This only confirms their quality and uniqueness, and also speaks of a real opportunity to compete with production cars.
The fifth place was given to the off-road vehicle " Black Raven"Built in Kazakhstan. This unique vehicle, created for hunting in the steppe conditions, has a menacing and at the same time futuristic design. "Black Raven" could have safely appeared in science fiction films or even played the role of an army vehicle, but it is used only by its creator - a modest self-taught engineer from Karaganda.
The exterior of the SUV is really original, a little awkward, but distinctive and brutal. "Black Raven" is a real man's car with a powerful frame chassis, riveted aluminum body panels, multi-eyed optics and all-terrain wheels that are ready to bite into even difficult ground. The "Black Raven" is torn into battle due to a powerful American-made V8 engine, working in conjunction with an automatic transmission and a gearbox from the ZIL-157 located on the rear axle. Excellent driving performance SUVs are guaranteed by a long wheelbase, wide track, mid-engine and gearbox, and 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.
The unique home-made salon is designed for two passengers. The equipment of the jeep includes LED brake lights and turn signals, an electric drive of the front windows, an electric drive of the hood and a unique self-retriever with a chain drive, mounted in the bottom. As for the price, the approximate cost of the "Black Crow" is about 1,500,000 rubles.
Move on. On the fourth line we have the first ever Cambodian car- "". Oddly enough, it was not created by a public or private car company, but a simple mechanic Nkhin Feloekom, who decided that in his 52 years it was time to get his own car.
Angkor 333 is a very compact two-seater roadster with a very modern interior and quite attractive design, especially for a poor Asian country.
The Cambodian home-made has 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 designed for recharging battery... Surprisingly, a homemade roadster can accelerate to 120 km / h and cover about 100 km on a single battery charge. In addition, the equipment of the Angkor 333 includes a touchscreen display that acts as a dashboard, and the doors are opened by means of a special magnetic plastic card. Even most production cars do not have such functions, so the development of a talented mechanic is worthy of respect.
The first Angkor 333 was built in 2003. In 2006, the creator presented the second generation of his brainchild, and in 2010, he saw the light of a modified third-generation car, which to this day is manually assembled in small batches to order in Nkhin Feloek's garage, providing the retired mechanic with a comfortable old age. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the cost of the roadster.
The third place in our rating is occupied by 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 by reworked shock absorbers from KAMAZ, front split hubs and power steering from a Hino truck.
The Mega Cruiser Russia is driven by an atmospheric 7.5-liter Hino h07D diesel engine, which, in the process of revision, received a KAMAZ air cleaning system. The motor is assisted by a 6-speed manual transmission and a transfer case from the GAZ-66, in which all bearings were replaced with imported ones. The homemade product has a full drive, with the ability to block the bridges, in which the main pairs have been replaced, which made it possible to achieve a smooth ride on paved roads.
The Mega Cruiser Russia body is metal, prefabricated, attached to the frame through 12 shock-absorbing supports. The "living area" is a redesigned cab of the Isuzu Elf truck, to which is also attached a redesigned "rear" of the Noah minivan. The front part of the body consists of modernized fenders from the GAZ-3307, a hood of its own design and a radiator grill, molded from several copies of the Land grille Cruiser prado... The bumpers of the homemade metal, of our own design, and wheel disks“Riveted” from GAZ-66 wheels, which made it possible to install rubber from the army jeep “TIGER”.
If you look into the cabin, you will see 6 seats, a lot of free space, a right-hand drive, a rather nice interior and a comfortable driver's seat with excellent visibility in all directions.
Mega Cruiser Russia is equipped with a 150-liter gas tank, a gyroscope, a 6-ton electric winch, 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 its creator at a price of 3,600,000 rubles.
The second line of our rating of homemade products is occupied by another unique SUV, this time from Ukraine. We are talking about a car " Buffalo", Also built on the basis of the GAZ-66. Its author is Alexander Chuvpilin from Bila Tserkva, Kiev region.
"Bison" received a more modern and more aerodynamic look, the originality of which is emphasized, first of all, by the front part 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 turbo diesel with a return of 137 hp, borrowed from the Chinese DongFeng DF-40 truck. He also gave "Bison" a 5-speed mechanical box gear. In a pair, Chinese units provided homemade SUV the ability to accelerate to 120 kph with an average fuel consumption of 15 liters per 100 km. Permanent drive the "Bizon" has a rear one, with the possibility of connecting the front axle, locking the differential and using a lower gear.
The car is able to overcome a ford up to 1.2 meters deep, and is also equipped with a tire pressure control 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 supports, is reinforced with numerous stiffeners and a frame frame, and the roof of the SUV is made of 2 mm thick metal, which made it possible to place a folding tent on it for the night. One of the features of the Bizon is the nine-seat layout of the cabin (3 + 4 + 2), while the two rear seats, which can be rotated in any direction, can be retracted, allowing to increase the free space of the luggage compartment. In general, "Bizon" has a comfortable and spacious interior with high-quality finishes, comfortable seats and a front panel with two glove compartments.
Among the numerous equipment installed on the "Bison", we will single out the presence of a power steering, a double amplifier brake system, reversing camera, GPS navigator, electric winch, special reversing lights and a retractable footrest for back door... Alexander Chuvpilin spent about 15,000 dollars on the creation of Bizon.
Well, it remains only to name the winner, which, of course, could only be a sports car, because every motorist dreams of a racing car. A simple self-taught person without technical education, a Chelyabinsk resident Sergey Vladimirovich Ivantsov, also dreamed of it, having conceived the construction of his own sports car back in 1983. A car with an unpretentious name " ISV", Consisting of the initials of the creator, was built for about 20 years and for this long way managed to survive two prototypes, sculpted on a 1: 1 scale, first from window putty, and then from plasticine. At the same time, according to the creator, he did everything "by eye", dispensing with drawings and calculations.
From a plasticine model, Sergey sculpted plaster casts of parts of the future body, after which he painstakingly glued them out of fiberglass and epoxy resin. It is worth mentioning separately that the creator of this masterpiece is allergic to epoxy resin, and therefore he had to work in an army gas mask, sometimes spending 6-8 hours in it. What can I say, the persistence with which he walked towards his dream deserves respect, and the result of his work is impressive not only for ordinary onlookers, but also for seasoned experts in the automotive industry. In terms of design, the homemade ISV is ready to compete with many currently produced sports cars, and the final concept of a sports car was conceived 15 years ago. As Sergey 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 ISV's appearance.
The ISV is based on a spatial welded frame made of square tubes, and the entire chassis and suspension are borrowed with minor modifications from the Niva. The ISV's drive, as befits a good sports car, is only rear-wheel drive. 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 brainchild, Sergei never loaded the ISV at full capacity, so we will probably never know the true speed capabilities of the car. The author of the sports car himself drives quite accurately 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 that is maximally sharpened for the convenience of the driver. And this is not surprising, because the salon was made by hand, it was repeatedly modified and altered. Here, as well as on the exterior, you can see a concept of interior design worthy of a sports car, some details of which also resemble the style of cars of famous manufacturers. The ISV has a removable roof, guillotine doors, air conditioning, power steering, stylish Audi dashboard and audio system.
It's hard to talk about the price of an ISV. The creator himself considers his car invaluable and, according to some sources, 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, of course, left their bright mark on the history of the world automobile industry and gave a sea of positive emotions not only to their creators, but also to numerous visitors to various automobile exhibitions and shows. We hope that the number of fans of creating masterpiece cars in their garage will only grow, which means that we will have reasons for new ratings.
