Posted on 11/07/2022 10:19:29 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
From myth to masterpiece, the first street car he ever built will become a legend. The curvaceous Daedalus roadster, hand-built from scratch over a span of 17 years in a two-car garage, is a one-off original design with a hand-formed aluminum body, 302-cubic-inch GMC inline six-cylinder engine, C4 Corvette suspension, Truspoke wire wheels, and custom leather interior.
Inspired by European sports roadsters that ruled Sebring, Le Mans, and high-end tracks around the world in the late 50s and early 60s, owner and builder Kris Heil incorporated styling cues from Aston Martin, Jaguar, Ferrari, and Porsche without copying any particular design. Come along as Nicole Johnson learns the art of the English wheel and takes Kris for a coastal ride across Bixby Creek Bridge in Big Sur, California.
ABOUT KRIS HEIL (the builder/owner): Kris is a retired firefighter from Northern California who serves as crew chief for his brother's Formula Ford race team. He is currently accepting offers to purchase The Daedalus. For more info about The Daedalus and how to reach Kris, please visit his website, www.the-daedalus.com.
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It's really cool for me because Nicole and Chris take the car on a long cruise from Big Sur up to the San Mateo coast. They were out on a perfect sunny day along the coast. It's a bit amusing because Nicole had never seen that part of the country and was struck by the beauty of it and the sudden change from the coast to the redwoods.
She is really knowledgeable about cars and asks great questions. It's a fun interview and cruise and especially great looking at the construction project and how he built it.
Pinging you central coast guys. Add other central coast FReepers (lots of us, but I’m drawing blanks) and auto nuts.
I will be contacting Kris with an offer after I win the PowerBall jackpot tonight.
Very cool video, and the guy is such a humble patriot.
LOL...get in line behind me! Did you see his appraised value? You wouldn’t even need the big Jackpot to get it.
Yeah, I saw the Thin Blue Line flag — what a great sign of his beliefs. Not surprising since he is a retired firefighter. He is really humble, isn’t he? Sort of guy you’d like to meet and talk cars with.
Gorgeous car.
Made from aluminum.
Wow.
My friend Randy had a Glaspar car.
It’s gorgeous, too.
But it has a fiberglass body.
He passed away and his wife sold it.
It has a Nailhead Buick engine.
That’s a 5 Liter engine!....................
apparently someone rear-ended it in a hit-and-run; smashed it into the cement barrier.
I guess if you built it, it’s not much harder to fix it...
He got rear-ended in San Jose on the way to a Concours d’Elegance to show the car. All the crush zones worked as designed. The car was almost a total wreck, but he walked away.
Then he took it apart and rebuilt all of it from scratch, improving lots of things in the rebuild.
The crash and rebuild (with photos) is shown about 2/3 of the way through the video.
An American auto company should hire him to design a car for them. We are building some really ugly unreliable cars these days.
Really.
“ugly unreliable cars” — made so by the insane, all-consuming fetish of our government to make sure you don’t use a fluid ounce more fuel than you are allowed. That’s why every car looks alike — they all have to get to the same low drag coefficient.
Power to weight ratio is probably sick
“We are building some really ugly unreliable cars these days”
You mean like the mustang EV?
I don’t know about reliability.....but looks?.........yeeesh 🤮
appraised value? where? what?
Appraised in 2022 at $572,000
absoltely georgeous car
The Mustang II was more desirable :)
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