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True story: I once asked my parents to buy me a Porsche 911 for Christmas. Amazingly, they did, only it was a lot smaller than the one I wanted. They bought me a toy car. I should have just made one, like this amazing pedal-powered Porsche, the Ferdinand GT3 RS, aka the World’s Slowest Porsche.
The car/bike is an art project, perpetrated by Hannes Langeder. It took a year to build, and cost as much as a real car: €13,000, or $17,700. Inside, as you can see from the extensive photos (there are even more over on the project’s Flickr page) the main structure is steel. This was then built-out using a toy 911 as a model, covering the skeleton in plastic tubing and then skinning the whole thing with packing-tape and gold foil. Thanks to these simple materials, the entire car weighs in under 100 kilos (220-pounds). That’s not exactly light, but you probably wouldn’t want to take the Ferdinand out for a spin on a windy day.
The car looks fantastic on the road. Even though there’s a bike inside, it has the presence of a car. I’ll bet the rider gets a lot more respect from car-drivers just because he looks like one of them. Even if he is tootling along at just 10mph.
Ferdinand GT3 [Ferdinand Johannes L via Core77]
FERDINAND GT3 RS BikePorsche [Flickr]
Artist creates the slowest Porsche in the world [Daily Mail]
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The car/bike is an art project, perpetrated by Hannes Langeder. It took a year to build, and cost as much as a real car: €13,000, or $17,700. Inside, as you can see from the extensive photos (there are even more over on the project’s Flickr page) the main structure is steel. This was then built-out using a toy 911 as a model, covering the skeleton in plastic tubing and then skinning the whole thing with packing-tape and gold foil. Thanks to these simple materials, the entire car weighs in under 100 kilos (220-pounds). That’s not exactly light, but you probably wouldn’t want to take the Ferdinand out for a spin on a windy day.
The car looks fantastic on the road. Even though there’s a bike inside, it has the presence of a car. I’ll bet the rider gets a lot more respect from car-drivers just because he looks like one of them. Even if he is tootling along at just 10mph.
Ferdinand GT3 [Ferdinand Johannes L via Core77]
FERDINAND GT3 RS BikePorsche [Flickr]
Artist creates the slowest Porsche in the world [Daily Mail]
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