Gearhead Builds An Amazing Car From Junk
The Ariel Atom is an amazing car and a sure-fire way to lose your license in a hurry, but with a price tag north of 50 grand, it can be tough putting one in your driveway. Unless you build it yourself.
That's just what one enterprising but so far anonymous gearhead in Utah did, cobbling together an impressive copy of the Atom from junk he had lying around. The body was fashioned from an old kayak and a doghouse. The stainless bits were recycled from old appliances, and the throttle assembly was pulled from a Dumpster. It's all attached to a frame that's fashioned from what looks to us like old steel pipe, and the engine was pulled from a junked Acura RSX.
The builder, a college student known by his Flickr moniker Proximacentauri, spent 800 hours over the course of 15 months building the car, which offers impressive performance.
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