Many people dream of their own car, but only a few find the strength, inspiration and desire to work hard and painstakingly on creating their own dream car. It is these desperate self-taught people who make the automotive world more interesting, saving it from the boredom of assembly line production. It is their creations that sometimes attract the attention of others more than the top models of famous manufacturers.

Today we want to introduce you to the best homemade cars from around the world. Our rating includes really worthy homemade products that can be sent to mass production even today without fear of low demand. Most of the cars included in the rating can easily compete with the cars of major manufacturers, but, unfortunately, they will forever remain in a single copy, delighting the public only at various auto shows. However, this is what makes them special, inimitable, unique, and allows their owners to feel like heroes who managed to single-handedly create a truly worthy car. So let's get started.

There are only five homemade products in our rating. It could have been more, but we decided to limit ourselves only to cars that have passed all the necessary certification and registered, i.e. all participants in the rating are allowed to ride on public roads without any restrictions. This only confirms their quality and uniqueness, and also speaks of a real opportunity to compete with production cars.

The fifth place was given to the off-road vehicle " Black Raven"Built in Kazakhstan. This unique vehicle, created for hunting in the steppe conditions, has a menacing and at the same time futuristic design. "Black Raven" could have boldly appeared in science fiction films or even played the role of an army car, but it is used only by its creator - a modest self-taught engineer from Karaganda.

The exterior of the SUV is really original, a bit awkward, but distinctive and brutal. "Black Raven" is a real man's car with a powerful frame chassis, riveted aluminum body panels, multi-eyed optics and all-terrain wheels that are ready to bite into even difficult ground. The "Black Raven" is torn into battle due to a powerful American-made V8 engine, working in conjunction with an automatic transmission and a gearbox from the ZIL-157 located on the rear axle. Excellent driving performance of the SUV is guaranteed by a long wheelbase, wide track, a central arrangement of the engine and gearbox, as well as an independent suspension with torsion bars from an armored personnel carrier. All this allows the car to maintain stability during sharp maneuvers even at a speed of about 100 km / h and easily overcome pits and bumps on the way.

The unique homemade salon is designed for two passengers. The equipment of the jeep includes LED brake lights and turn signals, an electric drive of the front windows, an electric drive of the hood and a unique self-retriever with a chain drive, mounted in the bottom. As for the price, the approximate cost of the "Black Crow" is about 1,500,000 rubles.

Go ahead. On the fourth line we have the first ever Cambodian car - "". Oddly enough, it was created not by a state or private car company, but by a simple mechanic Nhin Feloek, who decided that at 52 it was time to get his own car.

Angkor 333 is a very compact two-seater roadster with a very modern interior and quite attractive design, especially for a poor Asian country.

The Cambodian home-made has received a body with streamlined shapes, stylish optics and modern aerodynamic elements. Moreover, the Angkor 333 is a hybrid vehicle equipped with a traction electric motor, 3-speed automatic transmission and a 45-horsepower petrol unit designed to recharge the battery. Surprisingly, a homemade roadster can accelerate to 120 km / h and cover about 100 km on a single battery charge. In addition, the equipment of Angkor 333 includes a touchscreen display that acts as a dashboard, and the doors are opened using a special magnetic plastic card. Even most production cars do not have such functions, so the development of a talented mechanic is worthy of respect.

The first Angkor 333 was built in 2003. In 2006, the creator presented the second generation of his brainchild, and in 2010, he saw the light of a modified third-generation car, which to this day is manually assembled in small batches to order in the garage of Nkhin Feloek, providing the retired mechanic with a comfortable old age. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the cost of the roadster.

The third place in our rating is occupied by the car, which is most often called "". This impressive SUV was created by Vyacheslav Zolotukhin from Krasnokamensk, Trans-Baikal Territory. The homemade product is based on a modified GAZ-66 chassis, supplemented by redesigned shock absorbers from KAMAZ, front split hubs and a power steering from a Hino truck.

The Mega Cruiser Russia is driven by an atmospheric 7.5-liter Hino h07D diesel engine, which, in the process of revision, received a KAMAZ air cleaning system. The engine is helped by a 6-speed manual transmission and a transfer case from the GAZ-66, in which all bearings were replaced with imported ones. The homemade drive is full, with the ability to block the bridges, in which the main pairs have been replaced, which made it possible to achieve a smooth ride on paved roads.

The Mega Cruiser Russia body is made of metal, prefabricated, attached to the frame through 12 shock-absorbing supports. The “living area” is a redesigned cab of the Isuzu Elf truck, to which is also attached a redesigned “rear” of the Noah minivan. The front part of the body consists of upgraded fenders from the GAZ-3307, a hood of its own design and a radiator grill, molded from several copies of the Land Cruiser Prado grille. The homemade bumpers are made of metal, of our own design, and the rims are “riveted” from GAZ-66 wheels, which made it possible to install rubber from the TIGER army jeep.

If you look into the cabin, you will see 6 seats, a lot of free space, a right-hand drive, a rather nice interior and a comfortable driver's seat with excellent visibility in all directions.

Mega Cruiser Russia is equipped with a 150-liter gas tank, a gyroscope, a 6-ton electric winch, an audio system and even a spoiler. According to the author of the homemade product, the SUV is capable of accelerating to 120 km / h, its weight is 3800 kg, and the average fuel consumption is 15 liters on the highway and about 18 liters off-road. Last year, Mega Cruiser Russia was put up for sale by its creator at a price of 3,600,000 rubles.

The second line of our rating of homemade products is occupied by another unique SUV, this time from Ukraine. We are talking about a car " Buffalo", Also built on the basis of GAZ-66. Its author is Alexander Chuvpilin from Bila Tserkva, Kiev region.

"Bizon" received a more modern and more aerodynamic look, the originality of which is emphasized, first of all, by the front part of the body. The creator borrowed most of the body panels from the VW Passat 64, but some elements had to be made independently.

Under the hood of the Ukrainian homemade product is a 4.0-liter turbo diesel with a return of 137 hp, borrowed from the Chinese DongFeng DF-40 truck. He also presented the Bizon with a 5-speed manual transmission. Together, the Chinese units provided the self-made SUV with the ability to accelerate to 120 kph with an average fuel consumption of 15 liters per 100 km. Permanent drive at "Bizon" is rear, with the ability to connect the front axle, differential lock and use a lower gear.
The car is able to overcome a ford up to 1.2 meters deep, and is also equipped with a tire pressure control system with an additional outlet for domestic needs: pumping boats, using a pneumatic jack or pneumatic tools, etc.

The body of the "Bizon", planted on 12 supports, is reinforced with numerous stiffeners and a frame frame, and the roof of the SUV is made of 2 mm thick metal, which made it possible to place a folding tent for the night on it. One of the features of the "Bizon" is the nine-seat layout of the cabin (3 + 4 + 2), while the two rear seats, which can be rotated in any direction, can be retracted, allowing to increase the free space of the luggage compartment. In general, Bizon has a comfortable and spacious interior with high-quality finishes, comfortable chairs and a front panel with two glove compartments.

Among the numerous equipment installed on the Bizon, we will single out the presence of a power steering, a double brake booster, a rear view camera, a GPS navigator, an electric winch, special reversing lights and a retractable step for the tailgate. Alexander Chuvpilin spent about 15,000 dollars on the creation of Bizon.

Well, it remains only to name the winner, which, of course, only a sports car could become, because every motorist dreams of a racing car. A simple self-taught man without technical education, a Chelyabinsk resident Sergey Vladimirovich Ivantsov, also dreamed of it, having conceived the construction of his own sports car back in 1983. A car with an unpretentious name " ISV”, Consisting of the initials of the creator, was built for about 20 years and during this long journey managed to survive two prototypes, sculpted in a 1: 1 scale, first from window putty, and then from plasticine. At the same time, according to the creator, he did everything "by eye", dispensing with drawings and calculations.

From a plasticine model, Sergey sculpted plaster casts of parts of the future body, after which he painstakingly glued them out of fiberglass and epoxy resin. It is worth mentioning here separately that the creator of this masterpiece is allergic to epoxy resin, and therefore he had to work in an army gas mask, sometimes spending 6-8 hours in it. What can I say, the persistence with which he walked towards his dream deserves respect, and the result of his work is impressive not only for ordinary onlookers, but also for seasoned experts in the automotive industry. In terms of design, the homemade ISV is ready to compete with many currently produced sports cars, and the final concept of a sports car was conceived 15 years ago. As Sergei himself admitted, he drew inspiration from the Lamborghini Countach, but if you look closely, you can catch notes of Aston Martin, Maserati, and even Bugatti in the ISV's appearance.

The ISV is based on a spatial welded frame made of square pipes, and the entire chassis and suspension are borrowed with minor modifications from the Niva. The drive of an ISV, as befits a good sports car, only rear. As for the motor, initially the homemade product received a modest engine from the "classic", but then it gave way to a 4-cylinder 1.8-liter engine with 113 hp. from BMW 318, paired with a 4-speed "automatic". Unfortunately, due to his great love for his brainchild, Sergey never loaded the ISV at full capacity, so we will probably never know the true speed capabilities of the car. The author of the sports car himself drives quite carefully and does not accelerate more than 140 km / h.

Let's take a look at the ISV salon. Here is a classic sports car 2-seater layout with an interior that is maximally sharpened for the convenience of the driver. And this is not surprising, because the salon is made by hand, has been repeatedly modified and altered. Here, as well as on the exterior, you can see a concept of interior design worthy of a sports car, some details of which also resemble the style of cars of famous manufacturers. The ISV has a removable roof, guillotine doors, air conditioning, power steering, stylish Audi dashboard and audio system.
It's hard to talk about the price of ISV. The creator himself considers his car invaluable and, according to some sources, once refused to sell it for 100,000 euros.

That's all, we introduced you to the most interesting and high-quality homemade cars of recent times, approved for use on public roads. Each of them is unique, original and interesting in its own way. But all together they, of course, left their bright mark on the history of the world automobile industry and gave a sea of \u200b\u200bpositive emotions not only to their creators, but also to numerous visitors to various automobile exhibitions and shows. We hope that the number of fans of creating masterpiece cars in their garage will only grow, which means that we will have reasons for new ratings.

It is useful for all parents to conduct developmental activities for their children. It would be good for every father to make toys with his own hands with his children, setting a positive example for them. One of these toys can be a toy car.

There are many photos of home-made cars on the Internet, it remains to choose the right option for yourself, and get down to business.

What car to make

To choose a suitable type of craft for manufacturing, you should soberly assess your strengths and means. If a teenager independently decided to do this process, then he should start with simple ideas of hand-made machines.

To get started, you can choose a craft made of cardboard and paper. They are relatively simple to make, and tooling materials are at hand. All you need is scissors, glue, and cardboard.

How to make paper typewriters if you have no experience in design at all? Where should you start and what are the next stages of work? These issues need to be taken seriously. The child must learn to set a task for himself, and be able to solve it.

Cardboard Race Car

Consider how to make a car with your own hands. This will require:

• cardboard cylinder;
• scissors;
• colored paper, and ordinary;
• stationery buttons;
• a set of markers;
• white and black cardboard.

The body of the car will consist of a cylinder, it will be pasted over with paper of any color. 4 black wheels and 4 white wheels are cut from additional cardboard.

Additional cardboard mugs are glued to the end parts of the car so that there are no through holes in the cylinder. The glued mugs can be painted with felt-tip pens.

The wheels are fastened with pushpins in the center of the circle, and their ends are bent from the inside of the cylinder. A small hole for the driver should be cut from the top of the finished body. The finished machine is painted with felt-tip pens.

Electronic typewriter with control panel

Children love cars with remote controls. If a suitable model has not been found in the store, then you can assemble it yourself. Today, every house with children is full of toy trash. Here you can find suitable parts and bodywork.

You will need the following:

• wheels;
• body;
• electric motor;
• different screwdrivers.

Build process

Most likely, some parts will have to be purchased. This refers to the control system. If a homemade machine has a simple control panel, then it will be simpler and more economical in cost. When installing radio controls, you may have to spend more money on parts.

Having distributed the assembly plan, and the dimensions of the device, you need to start assembling. The chassis must have wheels. The product itself must be error-free and easy to move. Good grip for the car will provide wheels with rubber tires.

There are two types of motor. Its choice depends on the user who will manage it. If this is a child, then you need to install an electric motor. It will cost less, if possible, it will be removed from a broken toy car.

If the machine is intended for adult users, then you can put a gasoline engine on it. It will cost an order of magnitude more, and caring for it will be more difficult.

Wired control will restrict the movement of the car. It is preferable to choose a radio unit, then the product will be able to move independently of the wires. But the movement will also take place only in the radio reach.

The choice of the body is determined by taste. The variety of models today is simply huge, everything is limited by imagination and budget.

Having prepared all the elements, it is necessary to proceed with the installation. The chassis is mounted first, with wheels. Next, a motor and a radio are installed on the frame. An antenna is attached to the body. If all components were purchased in a store, then installation instructions must be attached.

The batteries are attached last. After debugging the engine, the body is attached to the chassis. Decorations from various stickers can be the finishing touch. The car is ready!

Homemade machine complex type

You can give another instruction on how to make a radio-controlled car. This will require:

• Body of any model;
• Powerful 12V battery;
• Radio control;
• Charger;
• Soldering tool, and all the necessary components for it;
• Electrical measuring instruments;
• Rubber blanks for bumpers;

Installation process

The step-by-step process of assembling a car is much more complicated than the previous type. Suspension elements are assembled first. Then the gearbox with plastic gears is assembled.

For its installation, a thread is made in the body. Next, the motor is connected to the power supply, and its performance is checked.

Radio circuits are mounted in such a way that overheating does not occur. Sometimes a radiator is attached to them. At the end, the body of the model is assembled. That's all you need to make a radio-controlled car.

In order for a self-made car to have maneuverability and good speed, one must try not to overload it with unnecessary parts.

The presence of headlights and dimensions looks nice, but to mount them, you need to install the wiring. As a result, this will complicate the design and assembly.

Photos of homemade cars

This is not some kind of tuning there, spreading out of boredom in the "decaying bourgeois society." Just think - attach a "lip" to the bumper, repaint the hood or hang an elaborate wing on the trunk! Is it weak to build an entire car from scratch? More than one thousand Soviet citizens could, instead of answering this question, present a car made with their own hands - personally or in a team with friends. The most active of them, under the patronage of state bodies, regularly gathered for grandiose all-Union races, promoting technical creativity among the masses and raising the level of automotive culture. And the masses reciprocated: in each "transit" city, such traveling auto festivals gathered tens of thousands of spectators - whole stadiums, filled central squares and avenues to overflowing. Yes, to some extent it replaced us, then, the current annual auto shows and auto exhibitions. However, it was more than the narrow-minded interest of the consumer who came with a prepared wallet to the pavilions of fashionable motor shows shining with soffits.

Who and why?

But in addition to hundreds of public "home-made", along with their creations, rightly treated kindly by the attention of DOSAAF, central television and popular science magazines, there were many more craftsmen who built a car exclusively for themselves. Not wanting to waste their tariff leave on high-profile all-Union events, they quietly and modestly exploited their once created exclusive for personal needs. And in almost every city of the Union one could find at least one, or even several cars that have no analogues anywhere in the world.

Used photos from the archive of Sergei Iones

Who were they - these people, the owners of an absolute car exclusive? After all, not sheikhs from the Emirates, not princes, and not even the heirs of overseas grandmothers-millionaires ... To make a car, in the USSR, it was enough to have self-confidence and be a technically savvy person. There were plenty of citizens with such qualities then. Why didn't they buy themselves a finished production car? Not because it was expensive - building a homemade product cost no less money than at least a second-hand Moskvich. There are several reasons: the limited type of production cars, the desire to stand out among the comrades, and most importantly, the itch of creativity and the desire to express oneself in working with technology. But the feat of Soviet self-made workers is different: as a rule, entering the path of the Samavto movement, they doomed themselves to long-term hard work in their free time. That is - without days off, vacations, gatherings over dominoes or beer. The USSR record for the speed of building a car is 8 months (resident of the Armenian SSR Lev Sahakyan), and the average figure is perhaps 3-4 years, since many have been working on the "theme" for ten to fifteen years.

How did they do it?

Far from all, but still most of the amateur designers had a detailed project, which they more or less strictly adhered to throughout the work. Many units and technical solutions were being finalized "on the fly", and more often "on the spot". Despite the approving attitude of the party and the government towards self-made people, the state did not allow anarchy in the transport sector. The "Technical Requirements for Custom-Made Passenger Cars" were officially legalized. They limited, for example, the volume of the engine and the dimensions of homemade products, prescribed the use of the most important systems (brakes, steering, lighting) factory-made. Over the years, the government's confidence in amateur designers has grown: in 25 years, "Technical requirements" have changed four times, each time becoming more liberal. If in the 1960s and 70s it was allowed to equip homemade cars only with motorcycle engines, then in the next edition of the "Technical Requirements" from 1980 the volume of the permitted motor increased to 1.2 liters - and this is already the engine of the "eared" Zaporozhets (40 liters .s.) or the "first" model of Zhiguli (58 hp)! And since 1987, it was possible to use power units of any volume, provided the specific power of the car was within 24-50 hp. per ton of gross weight.

Basement masterpieces

The main problem for many self-made people was the workplace - a workshop where the creator could create his brainchild for several years. After all, the vast majority of car models belonged to the townspeople. And they, as a rule, lived in comfortable apartments and had no place for technical creativity. Therefore, they had to turn these apartments into workshops. During the few years that the work on the machine lasted, the patient family huddled in the kitchen and one or two remaining rooms. There are cases when not only individual units, but even bodies were created in high-rise buildings. The problem of lowering the finished product to the ground against the background of many years of work on the creation of the car looked trifling. So, some resorted to the help of ropes and muscle strength of friends (like the Muscovites Shcherbinin brothers), others used a truck crane (like Henrikh Matevosyan from Yerevan), others used cables stretched at an incline from the balcony to the ground - they rolled the car along them, as if on rails, placing instead of wheels, bare disks. At the same time, such trifles as the need to dismantle balcony frames or disassemble the Khrushchev roof did not stop anyone. Against this background, home-made people who had at least some basement or shed at their disposal seemed lucky to their “colleagues”.

Technologies

It would seem, what is simpler - take, say, a "Zhiguli" chassis, "put" your body on top of it - and get a unique car. But it was so uninteresting. Therefore, many authors have designed their own chassis. There are known cases of manufacturing and motors of their own design: in the era of scarcity, it was easier for some to make the engine themselves than to wait for the opportunity to buy it in a store. Moreover, in the 1980s, the unsightly-looking "Vesna" machine designed by Vladimir Mironov gained wide popularity - with an automatic transmission unprecedented in the USSR: a V-belt variator of its own production! Few people knew about similar units of small cars DAF in our country at that time, and only the drivers of LiAZ buses and government limousines had the happiness of driving "automatic".

If the shortage of auto components and the aforementioned "Technical Requirements" held back the fantasies of self-made people as designers and constructors, then from the point of view of technology, the freedom of creativity was complete. Most often, the body was made of reinforced plastic - building fiberglass (or even ordinary burlap), impregnated with epoxy resin. Depending on the patience and aspirations of the author, the details were glued onto a blank (it's easier) made of wood, plaster or clay, or into a matrix (this is many times more difficult). Matrix technology, in addition to the better quality of the surface of the parts, made it possible to subsequently replicate the body in small series, which in some cases was done. The load-bearing base of the fiberglass car was either the body itself (it turned out to be heavy), sometimes reinforced with load-bearing metal elements built into it (saving in weight), or a frame welded from water pipes. Some did not trust plastic, in the old-fashioned way tapping out body parts from steel sheet or welding them from small fragments-patterns. A progressive method was applied by a resident of Mariupol V. Mileiko: he “stamped out” the convex roof for his “Melody” by firing two double-barreled shotguns at a sheet of iron ...

Glasses had to be used from serial cars, although over time the standard windshield "triplexes" craftsmen got used to cut to the desired shape. The question of the lack of metallic paint on sale was solved, as they said, in an innovative way: by purchasing a manicure varnish in the nearest haberdashery (the option, by the way, is not cheap).

Bureaucracy

To obtain a registration certificate and numbers, it was necessary to provide a document from the technical commission on the safety of the constructed vehicle to the traffic police. Usually, such a conclusion was issued by the VDOAM cell - the All-Union Voluntary Society of Automobile Amateurs. However, in the outback, the issue could be solved in a simpler way - the creator of one of the unique cars said that he received numbers immediately after a half-hour test drive of his brainchild, carried out personally by the head of the traffic police. Apparently, in many cases, officials turned a blind eye to obvious violations of the standards by designers: for example, some interesting cars are equipped with engines more powerful than officially allowed at the time of their birth. Another serious problem was paperwork: for each unit used in the car, as well as all parts and materials, it was necessary to provide a check or other document confirming the legality of the purchase. Meanwhile, in a country with a non-market economy, commodity relations of citizens were often reduced to an agreement “for a bottle” or, in general, “for friendship”. And many more parts and assemblies borrowed from serial machines appeared in such papers as "written off" - that is, allegedly having served their time in the transport of the state ATP, plant, collective farm.

Restyling exclusive

Naturally, many amateur designers did not stop at what they had achieved, and after registering the car they continued to improve it. Moreover, sometimes a new, more perfect car was built under the documents of an already built, long-registered car - fortunately, the photo was not attached to the registration certificate. Thanks to the bodies of durable stainless fiberglass, we still have the opportunity to see some of the truly unique homemade cars today. And what is doubly gratifying, they are often stored in museum collections. One of the little-known custom built cars. Its metal body amazes with the laboriousness of its manufacture: all rounded surfaces are made up of dozens of shaped pieces of sheet steel, carefully fitted according to patterns and then welded. In addition, the car has a home-made three-cylinder engine: its creator, Muscovite O. Kucherenko, did not wait for the engine of the permitted volume to arrive at the store.

CD ("Sport-900"): (1969)

The stylish coupe of the passenger formula "2 + 2" is based on the units of the "humpback" ZAZ-965. The car is rear-engined, the fiberglass body is set on a flat tubular frame, the curb weight is only 500 kg. Several like-minded people participated in the project, for each of whom a fiberglass body was glued into a single matrix. It took seven years to build the machines. The total number of bodies is 5 or 6, the exact number of complete vehicles is at least four. Several of them have survived to this day.

GTSC (1969)

One of the most famous home-made cars of the Soviet period, the name of the brothers-authors is encrypted in its name: "Gran Turismo Shcherbinins". The engine from the GAZ-21 Volga accelerated the coupe to 150 km / h. Anatoly and Vladimir welded the frame of a car under construction in the courtyard of a high-rise building. Then they lifted her into an apartment on the seventh floor, where they gradually "dressed" with body panels glued from fiberglass. After that, the finished body was lowered down again, and already in the yard it was equipped with a power unit, suspension, cladding, and interior. Having survived two "restyling", the car has survived to this day.

Doe (1972)

A typical custom-built car that has never been seen before at home-made parties. Sedan with a two-door body (tudor). Built by a resident of Lugansk (formerly Voroshilovgrad) region during the early "Samavto". Based on units and parts of production vehicles; over time it was modernized - a more powerful engine from the VAZ-2101 was installed. The body is fiberglass, with a harmonious, stylistically consistent design. The car was operated in Lisichansk until the mid-2000s, and has survived to this day.

"Triton" (1985)

This unique transport is registered both in the traffic police and in the State Inspection of Small Vessels. The engine is from the Volga GAZ-21, the transmission is from the ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets. Unlike many other amphibians, Triton feels confident both on land and on water. Thanks to its excellent axle weight distribution (50:50), the machine is smooth and stable on the highway. The propeller on the water is a water cannon that allows you to move in shallow water, the propeller on the ground is the wheels. In planing mode on water, they rise up along the sides with a cable winch. For long water voyages, the wheels can be removed completely, for which the hydraulic brake lines are equipped with quick-acting "dry" connectors.

"Mercury" (1980)

We can say that this is a VAZ-2106 with a coupe body. In addition to the aggregate base of the "six", its steel bottom is also used, which serves as the basis for fastening the suspension elements and the fiberglass body. Irresponsible details are made of burlap impregnated with epoxy resin, and glass cloth is used, in particular, for pasting the standard metal bottom of the VAZ-2106. Five copies were built: two in Tbilisi and three in Moscow. The first, "starting" copy was built in a Moscow basement. Several cars have survived, one of them converted into an electric car.

"Centaur" (1984)

Some car enthusiasts are categorically not satisfied with cars produced by official manufacturers. And then they decide to create homemade cars that will fully satisfy all the individual wishes of the owner. And today we will tell you about 10 of the most unusual such vehicles.

Black Raven - homemade SUV from Kazakhstan

The Black Raven is the perfect vehicle for the Kazakh steppe. It is fast, powerful and easy to use. This unusual SUV was made from scratch by an enthusiast from the city of Karaganda.

Black Raven has a 5-liter engine with 170 horsepower, thanks to which the car can accelerate to a speed of 90 kilometers per hour when driving over rough terrain and off-road.

Angkor 333 - homemade electric car from Cambodia

The Angkor 333 is the first all-electric car built in the Kingdom of Cambodia. It is surprising that this car is not the result of the development of the auto industry in the country, but a private project of one person - a humble mechanic from Phnom Penh.

Author Angkor 333 dreams of opening his own factory in the future to mass produce both electric and gasoline variants of this car.

Homemade Batmobile from Shanghai

Fans of Batman films from all over the world dream of the Batmobile - a delightful superhero car design with a variety of functions that are not available in regular production cars.

And engineer Li Weilei from Shanghai decided to realize this dream with his own hands. He created a real Batmobile, as if descended from the screens of cinemas. At the same time, the Chinese spent less than 10 thousand dollars on the construction of this machine.
The Shanghai Batmobile, of course, does not have ten different types of weapons and does not travel at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, but in appearance it exactly repeats the Batman car shown in the latest films about this hero.

Homemade car for racing Formula 1

A real Formula 1 racing car costs a lot of money - over a million dollars. So there are no such cars in private ownership. At least their official versions. But craftsmen from all over the world create copies of racing cars with their own hands.

One such enthusiast is Bosnian engineer Miso Kuzmanovic, who spent 25,000 euros to create a Formula 1-style street car, resulting in an incredibly beautiful 150 horsepower car that can accelerate to 250 kilometers per hour.
Driving this red car through the streets of his city, Kuzmanovic received the nickname "Bosnian Schumacher".

Old Guo - homemade car for $ 500

Chinese farmer Old Guo was fond of mechanics since childhood, but worked as a farmer all his life. However, after the fiftieth anniversary, he decided to follow his dream and began to develop a car of his own production, which was named after the inventor - Old Guo.

The Old Guo is a compact Lamborghini designed for a children's audience. But this is not a toy car, but a real car with an electric motor, which can travel up to 60 kilometers on a single battery charge.
At the same time, the cost of one copy of Old Guo is 5,000 yuan (just under $ 500).

Bizon is a homemade SUV from Kiev

Alexander Chupilin from Kiev, together with his son, assembled their own SUV, which they called Bizon, from spare parts from other cars, as well as original parts. Ukrainian enthusiasts have got a huge car with a 4-liter 137 horsepower engine

Bizon can accelerate to a speed of 120 kilometers per hour. Fuel consumption in mixed mode for this car is 15 liters per 100 km. The interior of the SUV has three rows of seats, which can accommodate nine people.
The roof of the Bizon car is also interesting, which has a built-in folding tent for spending the night in the field.

Super Awesome Micro Project - a self-made air car from LEGO

The LEGO construction set is such a versatile material that even a completely working car can be constructed from it. At least two enthusiasts from Australia and Romania have succeeded in creating an initiative called the Super Awesome Micro Project.

As part of it, they built a car from the LEGO designer, which can move thanks to a 256-piston pneumatic engine, while accelerating to a speed of 28 kilometers per hour.
The cost of creating this car was just over $ 1,000, of which most of the money was spent on the purchase of more than half a million LEGO parts.

Homemade student car on hydrogen fuel

Shell organizes special races for alternative fuel vehicles every year. And in 2012, the competition was won by a machine built by a group of students from Aston University in Birmingham.
The students built a machine out of plywood and cardboard, which is powered by a hydrogen engine that generates water vapor instead of exhaust gases.

Homemade Rolls Royce Phantom from Kazakhstan

A separate direction in the creation of homemade cars is the construction of cheap copies of expensive and famous cars. For example, 24-year-old Kazakh engineer Ruslan Mukanov built a visual copy of the legendary Rolls Royce Phantom limousine.

While prices for a real Rolls Royce Phantom start at half a million euros, Mukanov managed to build himself a car in just three thousand. Moreover, his car is visually almost indistinguishable from the original car.
True, this car looks very unusual on the streets of the provincial Kazakh Shakhtinsk.

Upside Down Camaro - car upside down

Most homemade car makers are driven by the drive to improve the visual and technical dimension of production cars. American racer and engineer SpeedyCop started from opposite principles. He wanted to degrade the appearance of his car, turning it into something incredibly funny. This is how the Upside Down Camaro was born.

The Upside Down Camaro is a 1999 Chevrolet Camaro with an upside-down body. The car was created for the parody races 24 Hours of LeMons, in which only cars worth less than 500 US dollars can take part.

The dream of owning a car has occupied the minds of many people. But very often such cars remained inaccessible to the majority of the population. Most continued to dream of such a car, but some craftsmen began to design their own car, which later became a curiosity for the whole area.

Homemade cars

The first home-made car appeared in the Soviet Union in 1933. The working name of the car is OKTA and it was made by a craftsman from Novocherkassk. But the heyday of self-made cars made by hand came in the post-war years. The traffic police even had to introduce rules that allowed these cars to be registered as a vehicle. It should be noted that these rules have been repeatedly supplemented and republished, which means that self-made machines made with their own hands did not decrease, but even vice versa. Photos of homemade cars from different times can be found on portals and sites of motorists.

But even now, when a car is no longer a luxury, but an ordinary means of transportation available to almost everyone, more and more self-made cars are emerging. Test videos can be found on almost every car enthusiast site.

Hardly anyone will tell you how to make a homemade car, because after all, this is a rather laborious and complex process that requires the necessary knowledge and experience in technical work. Therefore, if you have never even looked under the hood of a car, you are unlikely to be able to assemble a homemade car. Although who knows - Benz did it?

Homemade cars for different needs

By the way, homemade cars are not only cars, but also other equipment - assembled from old spare parts, ATVs, converted from mopeds, designed on the basis of a mini tractor and other equipment. This also includes homemade snowblowers. In fact, a homemade snowblower is a mini tractor, with an auger installation that will grind the snow.

In principle, making such a car at home is not difficult and even a beginner technician can do it. But it should be noted right away that the engine for snowblowers should be chosen more powerful. It must have at least 10 hp.

The danger that lies in wait for snow removal equipment is large objects falling into the blades, which can get into the engine, which will lead to its jamming. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to include safety bolts in the design of a homemade snowblower. If a solid object enters the bucket, such a bolt will break, but by doing so it will prevent engine damage, which has more unpleasant consequences.

By the way, snowblowers can work both from the mains and on a gasoline engine. Electric snow blowers are designed for clearing small areas, such as near a house. But gasoline is more versatile and can be used for different needs.