Jun 5 2010Great Fuel Economy, Horrible Everything Else: Full Scale Pedal-Powered Porsche GT3
Sure it may look like a regular Porsche GT3 wearing a tinfoil helmet so aliens can't read its mileage, but it's actually a pedal-powered scale mockup. HOHO! Now I don't know about you, but I'd pedal that sucker around town and holler at all the fly honeys. Things like, "HOLY SHIT LADY, GET OUT OF THE WAY I CAN'T STOP!!" She will be so turned on. It's like taking candy from a baby plowing through the Farmer's Market in a pedal-car.
Hit the jump for a ton more pics, and the link to a whole bunch more.
Poor Man's Porsche 911 GT3 RS [standardmadness] (with two pages of build pictures)
via
Bicycle bling: The Porsche GT3 full-size pedal car [eta]
Thanks to Yannick, who built a pedal-powered Ferrari but totaled it pulling into a gas station to grab a soda. Oh the irony!
Reader Comments
1. Colombian Jai - June 5, 2010 7:33 PM
first?
2. Booom - June 5, 2010 7:33 PM
Zomg! First first first.
3. Colombian Jai - June 5, 2010 7:34 PM
great now I can feel awesome !! ¬¬ (beign first is not as cool as ya'll wankers make it look lol)
4. JJtoob - June 5, 2010 7:34 PM
I always wanted to do that as a kid.
5. Why did the robot eat all the egg salad? - June 5, 2010 7:35 PM
Yaba Daba Doo!!!
6. liquid tension - June 5, 2010 7:39 PM
wow tune up fixes your music collection
7. Danger Will Robinson - June 5, 2010 8:25 PM
I'm not going to lie, that's pretty damn clever.
8. Reverand Eskimobob - June 5, 2010 8:53 PM
Hmm. Considering the time, effort, AND cash that went into making this, just buying a real porsche might have been cheaper. Needless to say, im going to make one. Except its going to be a Truck.
9. Johnnycakes - June 5, 2010 8:59 PM
first
10. Bruce Willis - June 5, 2010 9:15 PM
LAST BITCHES
SUCK IT
11. Wilson - June 5, 2010 9:24 PM
AHAHA! I'm last.
12. Butte Force - June 5, 2010 9:51 PM
It's actually really cool up until that paper maché / foil / gold paint shit. They could have put enough on it to sand down and prime and then just go with a flat color and clearcoat. As much planning and execution as went into this, it sucks to see it fall short right at the finish.
I think it looks better at the framework on the beach stage :(
Maybe they should have gone with some kind of cloth like that crazy BMW concept a few years back. You know, the one with the concealed head lamps and changing the shape left wrinkles in it that looked like shit. Okay, maybe that's a dumb idea.
13. Anonymous - June 6, 2010 12:07 AM
So....what happens when it rains?
14. NVG - June 6, 2010 12:08 AM
PEDAL + PORSCHE BODY = WIN
GOLD FOIL = ULTIMATE FAIL
15. STOMPY (iPhone) - June 6, 2010 1:21 AM
Wow. SomedAy I'm going to make something totally cool and cover it in shifty foil also
Such fail at the end is scary
16. seano - June 6, 2010 2:33 AM
omg first finally
17. noodleBox - June 6, 2010 3:35 AM
i saw the same car in london 9 months ago on oxford st... but it was silver .. so kool
18. alexmarcelo - June 6, 2010 4:08 AM
commenter number 2 failed.
19. tCA - June 6, 2010 6:39 AM
took some time to come over the atlantic, hmm?
here you've got this porsche in "action" :D
it's such a great video.. made with absolute integrity X-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQB_tgS7f0
20. turtleburgers - June 6, 2010 8:57 AM
Great idea! Foil ruined it though.
21. Samir Notgonaworkhereanymore - June 6, 2010 9:28 AM
I would drive this to work. BTW I'm eating some bacon in about 10 seconds... FTW!
22. Gir - June 6, 2010 11:59 AM
Gah! Foiled!
23. Mih0 - June 6, 2010 12:18 PM
ZOMG that kid ate a lot of freaking popsicles.... ^_~.\/.
24. didi grandburly - June 6, 2010 4:24 PM
I think its pretty neat but it'd be better if it was pure foot-power ala fred flintstone. I'd go yabadabadoo on that sucker.
25. Chicken Banana - June 6, 2010 5:10 PM
The foil was done on purpose. It's supposed to look cheesey. Did you see the guys actual website? He did it because he thinks it's funny. The guy drives around in it wearing a canary yellow suit, porn stache and aviators for christs sake.
You people are so dense it makes me sad.
26. First! - June 6, 2010 5:15 PM
Yes! I'm finally FIRST! ^_^
27. alwayzdafirst! - June 6, 2010 8:37 PM
OMGGG!! IM FIRST!!! ^___________^
28. Frank Glover - June 6, 2010 11:04 PM
"Let's ride, with the family down the street.
Through the, courtesy of Fred's two feet...."
29. Pff - June 7, 2010 12:18 AM
Fake. Look at the shadows.
30. monkeypizza - June 7, 2010 7:48 AM
@8
its made of duct tape and pvc tube's
how the fuck is a porsche cheaper
idiot
31. ney - June 7, 2010 11:53 AM
wow... 26 and 27 firstards, just amazing.
32. Covert Koala - June 7, 2010 2:19 PM
Could you imagine that thing in an accident, AWESOME!
Seriously though, I bet there's a huge fake car market. Put some paint on that with black tinted windows and just leave it in the driveway. Suck on that Jones's!
When you got bored with you could fill it with candy, hang it from a tree and let the neighborhood kids beat it with a stick.
33. Anakin - June 7, 2010 3:00 PM
The guys plan was foiled by...well...foil...or somethin
34. Gabe - June 8, 2010 11:49 AM
that's pretty cool, until you realize how much more effort it would take to operate a fake porsche than an actual bicycle.
35. AISHAT - June 8, 2010 2:09 PM
this is stupid
36. Firstard - June 9, 2010 10:02 AM
FIRST!