THE DAEDALUS: 1 of 1 Handmade Aluminum-Body Roadster Inspired by Vintage European Racing

Nicole Johnson's Detour ^ | October 31, 2022 | Nicole Johnson

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This is just astonishing. A guy decides to build his own car from scratch inspired by British and Italian race cars. What a magnificent piece of work. I can't believe he found time to build this -- I barely have time to keep up with the house maintenance and garden work!

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Pinging you central coast guys. Add other central coast FReepers (lots of us, but I’m drawing blanks) and auto nuts.

[AF_Blue]

I will be contacting Kris with an offer after I win the PowerBall jackpot tonight.

[Obadiah]

Very cool video, and the guy is such a humble patriot.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...get in line behind me! Did you see his appraised value? You wouldn’t even need the big Jackpot to get it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It's all fun and games until somebody wraps it around a tree.

[blueunicorn6]

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.

[Red Badger]

That’s a 5 Liter engine!....................

[Jamestown1630]

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...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[1Old Pro]

An American auto company should hire him to design a car for them. We are building some really ugly unreliable cars these days.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[V_TWIN]

Power to weight ratio is probably sick

[Yo-Yo]

I watched this over the weekend when YouTube's algorithms suggested it to me. The most astonishing part is that the guy built this car by hand, including learning how to use an english wheel to shape the aluminum body panels, then had to rebuild it after someone rear ended him.

[V_TWIN]

“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 🤮

[G Larry]

appraised value? where? what?

[G Larry]

Appraised in 2022 at $572,000

[Bob434]

absoltely georgeous car

[1Old Pro]

You mean like the mustang EV? I don’t know about reliability.....but looks?.........yeeesh

The Mustang II was more desirable :)