Unbelievable running scale model (video)
 

This may have been posted before, but just in case it hasn't -
un*%#!!$$believable talent!

http://www.jokerracewear.com/web/Ferrari.wmv

I would of remembered seeing that before, my first time - thanks.

That is amazing.

In..fricking..credible.. WOW !!!!!!

What a labor of love! It would be difficult enough to build a full-sized replica, but in miniature? Absolutely magnificent!

Fascinating...and a little weird, too. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. He really needs Ralph, the motorcycle riding mouse from Beverly Cleary's children's book, one of my favorites from the third grade.

So there! My 912 restoration project isn't so crazy after all! At least I can sit in mine! :cool:

I remember seeing an article on that car a while back in a magazine, maybe road and track?

Pretty darn cool, but I think he needs to get out more... :)

Cheers

That maks me wan to cry.
We need Dyno scans!:D

Yes, he out did you Darryl.

I think the F factory should buy it or at least have a reception for the guy. Or maybe hire him.

That's been around for years, but it never gets any less incredible.

I don't even see how what he is even possible! 20,000 hours is a lot of time.

He should put it no eBay, no reserve!

I'm not sure if he should be congratulated, or committed.

Amazing talent and patience.

That's beyond amazing, just making the valve train, P&Cs ,cams etc is incredible. Fuel management? Gearbox? Scale eletronics?
WOW

32hrs a week for 12 years?
This guy has a perfectly machined 1/8 scale screw loose.

Thanks for the memory defcon65. I haven't thought about Runaway Ralph for 30 years. Didn't he have half a ping pong ball for a crash helmet?

two words: RE SPECT!

The clip is from Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines, a pretty good TV series from a few years back now. Pierre even made his own spark plugs for the car and had to learn how to make glass so he could do the lamp lenses - not plastic. I think the gearbox was the only thing he couldn't do due to tooling, and the firm who made the full size version did much of it. He had a lot of help from the factory so they are well aware of his stuff.

Pierre Scerri's website here says he is in Toledo on April 21 & 22, to accept an Internet Craftmanship award. The whole concept and execution is mindblowing, I love it.

http://mps-sportproto.com/images_sit...nique_1_gd.jpg

http://mps-sportproto.com/images_sit...merle_1_gd.jpg

http://mps-sportproto.com/images_sit...merle_2_gd.jpg

That's right, I forgot about that! Remember the passages where the motorcycle sound was written: p-bbb, p-bbb? My teacher could never do that sound right, so when she read aloud and we followed along, I got to do it. What a ham. I may have to visit the children's section of the library and check it out, incognito, of course.