What kind of car does a man buy who has a love affair with the Lamborghini Countach from years ago watching the movie The Cannonball Run and raised during Ford's dominance of  Le Mens with the Ford GT40?  The answer is, he builds a Countach from scratch out of aluminum with a steel tubular space frame. He powers it with a bored and stroked 351 Ford Cleveland, topped with 48IDA Webers running the burned racing fuel at 12/1 through stainless steel 180 deg. headers referred to as the Ford GT40 “Bundle of snakes”.  The 515hp mid-engine power is being transferred through a ZF transaxle 5 speed. Yes, it's eclectic, old school and 100% built by hand.

  The project as it started in 1990. A wooden forming buck to shape the body panels to. I made it from the combination of a 1:16 scale model and measuring a real car. I spent a year on that wooden buck... I started at the back and worked my way to the front, hand forming the aluminum on an English wheel. It is an old school forming tool to put the complex curves into the body panels. The harder to form pieces I left for last like the doors. Soon the whole buck would be covered in aluminum. The panels are then removed and welded complete and checked on the buck again for fit. A lot of work went into repairing the weld warpage, but after learning to not weld it all at once and tacking a lot, I was able to keep it to a minimum. 

  I got away with the priming in a makeshift booth, one piece at a time but the final painting was done in a professional down draft booth and not my basement for obvious reasons.  I spent 25 hours in the booth on all 33 separate pieces. Each piece was carried out of the basement and brought back down carefully. The final assembly was only after hours of color sanding with 1500 grit and then 2000 grit followed by buffing with all three compounds. The result was a deep shine which is difficult for a pewter gray metallic.

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