How much does an F1 car cost to make? Estimates are in the MILLIONS.
This dude got a three year old model for about the same money as a new Mustang. Talk about depreciation!
Anyway, the dude is turning it into a trackday car. How awesome is that?
How an englishman learned to stop worrying and love the Honda RA107!
(In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote this article. If you like it, please link it elsewhere!)
As a Honda/Button fan, this makes me very happy. Watching the promise of their 2006 season performance get flushed down the toilet for two years in 07 and 08 was just brutal. Thankfully 2009 was much better. I'd love to have this car just to remind me of all of those races I spent cheering them on.
Although I wonder if he could get his hands on the nose cone that had the "elephant ears" on it.
Great find!
Umm... wow.
Only issue is, what do you do when something breaks?
Love it. I never thought one could be bought so cheaply.
Nice story!
The double-busa engine is a nice touch (keep a high-rpm shrieker in there). Interesting that it is dimensionally similar to the original.
quite nicely written, and that is an amazing purchase. when something breaks, you just make something else that will work. lol
corytate wrote: quite nicely written, and that is an amazing purchase. when something breaks, you just make something else that will work. lol
Thanks for the compliments! I really want this one to go viral, because it is one of the coolest subjects I have ever had the opportunity to write about.
In reply to Maroon92:
I would like to help that happen.
Cool, thanks! Link to it on your blogs, facebook, twitter, put it up on other forums, have a hayday with it! I want to have this thing sent to me in an e-mail by my grandma! (yeah, not gonna happen).
strange, I've been searching for a used F1 car for the better part of this past week...
I bought some used Porsche wheels a couple of months ago. I went to he guy's house and he had two F1 cars in his garage.
Woody wrote: I bought some used Porsche wheels a couple of months ago. I went to he guy's house and he had two F1 cars in his garage.
Details?
jimbob_racing wrote:Woody wrote: I bought some used Porsche wheels a couple of months ago. I went to he guy's house and he had two F1 cars in his garage.Details?
Yeah, no kidding!
Great story. I'm sure we've all dreamed of doing something like this at one time.
Btw, I tweeted the link for you.
Nice story and well written! I 'liked' it, thinking it would magically appear on my FB page, but it didn't. Any help on how I can get it there?
dyintorace wrote: Nice story and well written! I 'liked' it, thinking it would magically appear on my FB page, but it didn't. Any help on how I can get it there?
You should be able to copy and paste the URL into your "status" bar and it will show up as a link.
Good story, I put it on my FB and it's already gotten a bunch of attention.
dyintorace wrote: Nice story and well written! I 'liked' it, thinking it would magically appear on my FB page, but it didn't. Any help on how I can get it there?
It showed up to all your friends that you "liked" it.
I threw it on my twitface too, and it seems some people like it, because a clod from my local board sniped the link and tried to post it on my site as his own find. It must be good!
That is totally awesome. The worst F1 car of the decade still makes it about 6 million times faster and more ridiculous and grin-inducing than any road car. Even without the 900 hp 20,000 rpm motor, it'll still rip your face off with cornering and braking, and probably still be pretty fast in a straight line with that double-Busa motor.
I would guess that it would still run sub 3 second 0-60 times. Considering the RA107 ran sub three second 0-100 times, that's not too unrealistic.
Is it bad that I'd want to put a 4-rotor in it a-la 787B? At least it would still spin 12K RPM's and spit fire...
Javelin wrote: Is it bad that I'd want to put a 4-rotor in it a-la 787B? At least it would still spin 12K RPM's and spit fire...
12K? More like 20K!
I'm with Javelin on this one 
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