Are you planning to impress others with your car? Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be production model, which came off the assembly line of some factory, but vehicle handmade is sure to grab the attention of the crowd on the street.

A homemade vehicle can evoke two emotions in those around you - genuine surprise at your skill or an undisguised smile at the sight of the invention. If you delve into the issue of assembling your own car, then there will be nothing complicated in the process. The main thing is to learn more about the main parts and components of the car, to understand the features and properties of the vehicle.

Homemade cars in history

Mass production of homemade cars began in the Soviet Union. Then only certain models were produced on the market, which could not satisfy all the needs of consumers. As a result, self-taught masters appeared who designed their own cars, in accordance with their desires and financial capabilities.

The assembly of a new car was carried out on the basis of failed cars, on average, for one homemade car three non-working ones were required. Craftsmen removed all the necessary spare parts, and introduced them into new body. By the way, body work were popular in the villages, the old body was specially removed from the car and replaced with a more spacious one.

In addition to functional models, vehicles that were simply attractive from an aesthetic point of view were also created, which could not be distinguished from well-known sports factory copies. Such cars were full-fledged road users.

It is worth noting that until the 80s there was no ban on the design and use of home-made vehicles. After the ban appeared, the inventors had to get out, many of them registered a completely different vehicle with the traffic police, and then used their invention.

How to build your own car

Before starting the assembly, it is necessary to draw up a plan for future work, in which you need to indicate what the car will be like, what features and characteristics it will have. If the car will be used in the future, you must purchase quality materials and details, to assemble a reliable frame and impact-resistant housing.

Important! Depending on which vehicle you plan to assemble, you will need certain materials. Bolts, wheels and scrap metal in this case are unlikely to be dispensed with.

You can learn about the direct assembly process from the training videos, which are enough on the network.

Drawings of the future car

Imagination and fantasy will help to think over in detail the appearance and device of the future car in your head, however, in order to implement what was conceived in reality, it is necessary to draw up a drawing of the vehicle.

It is better to make two drawings of the car: the first will show a general view, the second - individual nodes and vehicle details.

Before starting to create a drawing, it is worth preparing a pencil, a ruler, whatman paper and an eraser. First, sketches are made on the sheet with thin lines, which, if necessary, can be easily erased. After all the details are drawn, and the resulting image completely suits you, the drawing is outlined with a thick line.

It is not necessary to draw a drawing on a sheet of paper; modern designers come to the aid of software that greatly facilitates the process of creating a drawing.

Car assembly

In the countries of America and Europe, in the past few years, kit-car kits have become popular, which are a set of various parts that allow you to assemble a car with your own hands. Details are universal, so what will turn out finished car, completely depends on the imagination of the owner of the set.

Original taken from aslan How to make a legendary car with your own hands.
In search of material for the community, I accidentally stumbled upon a blog in which the author described how he created the car. This was not just some kind of car, but a legendary car with interesting history- Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. I became interested in the history of recreating an automobile rarity and plunged into a fascinating reading about how a copy of the legendary car was made from scratch, and not just a copy, but a car assembled from original parts.
Later, I was able to meet with Sergei, who made his dream come true and learn some details about the creation of the car. He gave me permission to take text and photos from his blog and make a post for the community readers.

In progress creation of Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" was used suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107. Remembering that the best is the enemy of the good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Special attention it is worth looking at the gearbox rear axle, usually it is with him that the most big problems, which is why customizers love not split bridges. On a Mercedes, this unit, along with the drives, is assembled on a subframe, which greatly simplifies working with it.

The stainless steel exhaust system complies with the Euro 3 standard, and fuel tank- a real work of art: so that the fuel does not splash, partitions and overflow pipes are installed in it. In one of the photos - the steering wheel lock

In the Gullwing project, it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and a power of 220 hp. paired with an automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of engine was not accidental - it is more powerful, lighter and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a torque converter, many of these units are familiar from the Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic booster was also installed, all units are new, so there should be no problems.

We make a body.

Back in 1955, Daimler Benz produced 20 cars with an aluminum body and 1 with a composite body. We decided to try composite.

After the manufacture of the body and assembly of the chassis, the crossing of the body with the frame begins. The process is so painstaking and dreary that no photos and words will convey. Assembly and disassembly, adjustment - all this takes more than one day. Many details are finalized on the spot, and the body is attached to the frame through special dampers with bolts in 30 places.

All body parts are installed and adjusted - doors, hood, trunk lid. There is a lot of trouble with glass - they are mounted on rubber seals, and since all seals are original and designed for steel, you have to strictly observe the thickness of the frames of the openings. Each part is removed, adjusted by hand and only then installed in place.

Many parts for the most popular rare models are still produced in small batches in some workshops, which is actively used by all restorers. But what is there to hide: the factories themselves forge their rarities, especially Audi and Mercedes have succeeded in this.

In many museums there are candid copies. So recently, a lot of "Horkhov" has bred. This is especially interesting, given that all factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years churn out fakes, passing them off as carefully restored products. The devil is in the details.

So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every nut and bolt (I'm not talking about rubber bands) is correctly marked in 1955. Everything is original, even the seats.

The body has already been primed, and this is the most important point, because the composite is a special material in painting, because plasticizers and all sorts of other complex things are needed here. The secrets of the primer are kept and no one will ever tell you. But it looks nice.

A short video from the painting process

In the meantime, the body is being painted, let's prepare the components for assembly. As I said - the devil is in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand of them in the car! Dashboard, she was looking for a very long time.

We also find devices and relays, of course, not everything turns out right away.

But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Parts.

The main thing is that it also works later: the devices are all expensive. Cheap is not good.

The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be pasted over with a chrome film. Yes, shagreen is a must, and the grain should be fine. Now they don’t paint like that anymore, they dilute everything with water, they have ecology, they protect nature. By the way, paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult to paint, any painter will tell you.

They finally married the chassis with the body.

Installed doors. It would seem that the matter is not tricky, but I want to tell you one story. The Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" had many design flaws. One of them was the doors themselves: they were steel, heavy and hinged to the roof of the body, and were fixed by a spring enclosed between hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end.

In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when the door was lowered, stretching with a roar, the door slammed shut. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the resistance of the spring, which simply pulled out the door along with the brackets (900 euros each).

Experienced owners of "Gullwing" know that with inept use, this will inevitably lead to deformation of the roof, moreover, the brackets themselves simply break. The stem and spring assembly has become insanely scarce over time, and its cost has risen to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these units once a season. We decided to go the other way and install gas shock absorbers.

It would seem that something easier, but it was not there. I had to develop the whole assembly, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, there was a workshop that brought ideas and drawings to life. With full external authenticity, the doors today open like the rear fifth door of German SUV. The knot turned out to be so successful that it immediately became the object of desire for all owners of rarities, I think that soon all "gullwings" will have doors that open very effectively and smoothly, without knocking. Now this process has really become similar to the flapping of a gull's wing - gracefully and smoothly.
This is just one, and the simplest example of the tasks that had to be solved when building this car.

By the way, the door lock mechanism has also undergone changes. Despite the cost of 1,500 euros, it stuck very often and did not fix the door, but that's another story.

At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that interior trim was the smallest problem, since there are workshops for altering interiors at every step, so what, and now any master can handle leather. The business is to sheathe a bunch of details with leather, but as it turned out, this is a HUGE PROBLEM!
After four attempts to create interior details in tuning studios, I realized that everything is much more complicated.

Created products by no means wanted to look like the original. Everything looked like a cheap fake: the leather was bristling, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not match, and no one could pick up the material. In short, I began to delve into the subtleties and found out that modern masters are completely unable to work with felt, wool and other materials used at that time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, used foam rubber wherever they could, actively worked with an iron, in short, mercilessly destroyed materials, depriving them of their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability either.

After suffering for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have a special paralon and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, uncles, under 60 years old, who have been restoring only Mercedes for 40 years. What they showed and told us is just a novel about skin, and they guard their secrets in much the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar.

The video shows an example of the process.

Interior details for my baby were made for 4 months. The skin is just alive.

I will also add that the skin that manufacturers offer today is chemical bullshit with impregnations. It is not for nothing that all the owners of Mercedes and BMWs go nuts after a year of operation - the salons look like those of old redvans: not fresh, the skin stretches, peels off. As I said earlier, the devil is in the details.

I'm not talking about vinyl, widely used by the Japanese, and by all manufacturers in principle. Now in a Mercedes there is not enough leather even for a jacket, one bullshit, that's why options appear - "designo", "individual", "exclusive". Leading manufacturers, at least for 10-15 thousand dollars, will offer you real leather, but what they sew for you for 50 thousand rubles cannot even be called leather.

Wheels are one of the important parts of a car. So for our handsome man there were two types of wheels. The first were placed on the civilian version.

The latter were offered as an option. They came from sports - real ones, with a central nut. Of course, it is nice to have chrome wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.

How then to hit a nut with a hammer, knowing that it is gold? original disc for the classics is also not cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think, I really want to save 8 thousand euros.

One of the main factors in the operation of the engine is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to recall here the laws of thermodynamics, I will only say that the last 150 years exhaust pipe is a symbol of progress. Remember locomotive pipes, steamboats, blast furnaces. Remembering my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that was given the closest attention. This is a masterpiece of engineering.

The exhaust system is made of stainless steel, which no manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of thick-walled and thin-walled pipes mounted one into the other, which made it possible with complete authenticity appearance pipes solve the problem of "gulving" - noise and heating of the cabin. Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved with the help of resonators installed inside the system.

If you want to understand what kind of car you have - look at the exhaust pipe!

Don't pay attention to the date on the photo, just bought a decent fotik. They snapped it off, but they didn’t figure it out with the instructions, it turned out to be the wrong date. Well, to hell with it, everyone interested, enjoy.

We have made many changes to the design, we try to do everything as authentically as possible. A very clever hand.

With a tank, a separate song, they made their own from stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.

There is a good saying - it is better to see once than to read about it a hundred times. Everyone who reads and watches my blog knows my favorite expression - THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. These are the details that I will show you today. There is no point in writing for a long time, you will understand everything yourself.

Braided harnesses and wiring, well, I think you just haven’t seen this yet, a two-tone horn, in short, just look, all this is called TECHNOLOGIES.

The main task facing the implementation of this project was to create complete authenticity of all interior details. It would seem that it could be easier than copying an existing sample, but as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than even restoring.

So, we had to get all analog devices working, and work correctly with electronic blocks modern units; put in a cramped little car a bunch additional equipment such as air conditioning, hydraulic booster, brake booster. All this should work from standard toggle switches and switches. The dampers of the stove used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga Gaz 21, so the stove had to be completely redone. But the biggest problem was the manufacture of the gear selector.

The whole difficulty lay in the fact that the car was originally built for sports, it was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed at an inclination of 30 degrees so as not to break the silhouette of the car. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct articulated drive.

There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, and this problem had to be solved. Since a standard engine-box pair was taken, the task became even more difficult, because automatic transmission much larger in size and has a completely different control principle.

After much torment, a hinge and a linkage system were designed, which made it possible to completely imitate this assembly, which can be easily seen by looking at the original.

Well, the most interesting: if you carefully study the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, this is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so cramped that a person with a height of 180 cm rested his head on the roof and was forced to sit hunched over at the steering wheel, but I like to drive with straight arms, so I had to change the angle of the steering column to ensure comfort and not disrupt the overall look. How this was achieved is a novel, from the manufacture of the unique sled to the alteration of the floor and seats.

I'm not the first to decide to recreate the legendary car. Back in the late 70s, similar attempts were made in America, with Tony Ostermeier, a former mechanical engineer from Gardena, the furthest advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years using units from Mercedes of those years. Today, these machines are themselves rarities.

I saw them, of course they are not as high quality products as we would like, but this is the best thing that has been done. In the 90s, there were attempts by the American company "Speedster" using the Tony matrix to implant it on the components of the "Chevrolet Corvette C03". Only 2 cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. The cars were sold for $150,000.

Actually, that's all. True, there were attempts to put shells on the SL and many more high-profile statements, but all this is zilch, people ran ahead of the locomotive, as with our yo-mobile: there is nothing yet, but 40 thousand applications have already been submitted.

By the way, working with a composite is very difficult. Only its high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, and most importantly: FORGING AND COPYING ARE TWO BIG DIFFERENCES.

They say that everything in the car should be perfect, both the engine and the trunk. On the first car, they decided to use gas shock absorbers to open and fix the trunk lid.

We redesigned the filler neck a little, reasonably considering that if it would fit tightly to the trunk lid. this will reduce the risk of spreading the smell of gasoline inside the passenger compartment in the event of a spill.

I didn't like the idea. On this machine, they made it closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (a steel funnel around the cap should prevent fuel from spilling onto the Carpet).

Of course, it could not have done without a collective farm: they built a leather condom around the filler neck. It seems to look nice, and they abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) for fixing the trunk lid. It was possible, of course, to get confused with the springs, as on modern machines, but I think it will kill the very spirit of the machine. The open trunk looks great.

And yes, the back looks great. Considering that today everyone already uses tubeless tires, we decided to free up space by placing a stowaway in the trunk instead of a standard wheel. Now at least there is a place to throw a string bag.

Actually, the case is inexorably moving towards its logical conclusion. Of course, it's nice that everything ends so quickly, it remains to smear with a movilchik and stick the wheels.

The wheels are temporary so as not to spoil the original.

That's basically it!

Let's go around the car.

I can only add one thing: before you start doing something, think carefully about whether you have enough strength to finish what you started.

After arriving in Russia.

Video from inside the recreated car.

In this video, you can see how the Germans are restoring the hero of the report, the same "gullwing".

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The uniqueness of paper crafts is that for their implementation, available to any family, safe materials. Possession of such art is within the power little child. You can attract a boy to needlework by creating toys out of paper only by getting him interested in this activity. Offer the little man options on how to make and print a car, car, truck and KAMAZ out of paper using a gluing template.

The uniqueness of paper crafts is that they require safe materials available to any family.

How to fold or assemble a paper police car using origami: a simple diagram and drawings

Crafts can be made both for the game and as an original gift to a good friend - an adult. Since men are always boys at heart, an origami machine made from a banknote is suitable as a gift.

You will need:

• Rectangular sheets of colored paper;
• scissors, glue.

How to make a toy car:

1. Fold the sheet of paper of your choice horizontally. This is the central inflection of the future product.
2. Parallel bend lines bend the two halves of the sheet to the left and right side inside.
3. Bend the bends back inward. Then turn the ends of the sheet in the direction from the wrong side.
4. The bent curves of the inner corners form the body of an impromptu paper machine.
5. Under the wheels, make folds inward with triangles. To achieve maximum resemblance to the wheel, bend the corner peaks inward.
6. For headlights, the right corners of the car are also internally bent. On the left side, we do the kinks in the same way, but smaller in size and outward.

For a more colorful car manufacturing, stick paper triangles of a different color on the headlights.

How to make a paper car in 3 minutes (video)

Gallery: paper machine (25 photos)

How to make a car that rides out of paper

From paper you can make a moving car for the race. To start the movement, put such a craft on a smooth surface and blow on it. Under the action of the air flow, the figure begins to slide along the surface, imitating the movement of a real racing car.

Necessary:

• A sheet of white paper with a side ratio of 1:7 or A 4.

You can make a moving car out of paper

How to do:

1. Fold the paper sheet in half lengthwise.
2. Mark the fold lines by folding the top right and bottom left corners of the paper.
3. Form a bend in the upper part of the sheet with inner triangles in the center.
4. In the central direction, bend the existing triangles again.
5. By bending the sides inward towards the center line, we form the sides of the car.
6. Fold the bottom of the sheet with triangles over the top of the craft, then fold the figure in half. Tuck corners into pockets.
7. Now the model of the car can be decorated as you wish.

By helping and guiding the child's work, you can add up a whole racing fleet.

How to make a truck out of paper

Figure truck looks more impressive in volumetric format.

You will need:

• Thick paper;
• Glue, scissors;
• Wooden skewers;
• Double-sided adhesive tape;
• Plastic bottle;
• Compass, pin.

The figure of a truck looks more impressive in a three-dimensional format

How to do:

1. Cut separately four squares for the cabin, three equal rectangles and two squares for the body.
2. Fold two boxes from the cut out figures, connect them with fasteners using adhesive tape inside. You can first cut out the side windows from the two squares of the cab, securing pieces of plastic from the inside with adhesive tape. We do the same with the front of the craft, imitating windshield. Glue the cab and body parts together.
3. On black paper, use a compass to designate eight small circles of the same size with a central dot. For stability, glue future wheels in two circles. Make a small hole at the center point with a pin.
4. Attach the wheels through symmetrical opposite holes on the sides of the figure, putting them on skewers through the hole.
5. Paint the figure of the truck with paints as desired.

The stability of the model will ensure the strength of the wheels - the more circles are glued at the base of the wheel, the better the craft will be.

How to make a war machine out of paper

You will need:

• A sheet of thick paper in dark green;
• Skewers;
• Scissors, compasses;
• Pencil, ruler, glue;
• Black paints, brush;
• Paper tubes or plastic cocktail tubes.

the finished product can be further decorated

How to do:

1. Draw four squares for the cockpit. On another sheet, draw three rectangles and two squares for the body. Separately, take a sheet, fold it lengthwise into three parts, glue it with a triangle - this will be a mount for rockets.
2. Draw side windows on the cab details, windshield on the front square. Glue the squares on the wrong side with tape or strips of paper.
3. Connect the car body parts in the same way. Glue a paper triangle on top.
4. Combine the finished cabin and body into a single model of the car.
5. From black paper, make the same eight circles with a central dot. In the designation, make a hole for the skewers with a needle.
6. Make holes at the bottom of the cab and body with skewers, string wheels on them. So that the structure does not fall apart, soak the ends of the skewers in glue, dry.
7. Cut the cocktail tube into equal parts, about 3 cm each. Paint all the segments black. Let dry well.
8. Gently put homemade rockets on the body mount with glue.

For decoration military machine from paper, you can paint the finished product with dark spots on the sides (or stripes on the hood) with watercolors.

paper race car

The figure of this racing car designed for the little ones.

Necessary:

• Roll of toilet paper;
• Paints, brush;
• Cardboard, compasses, scissors;
• Toothpicks 2 pcs.

The figure of this racing car was designed for the little ones.

How to do:

1. Clean the paper roll from the remnants of toilet paper, paint it in the desired color with watercolors. When dry, draw racing symbols with ballpoint pens.
2. With a compass, mark four equal circles for the wheels, cut out, paint with black paint.
3. At the base of the roll, pierce holes for the axis with a pin - toothpicks.
4. String the roll on toothpicks, fasten on both sides of each wheel.
5. Cut a semicircle in the upper part, bending the outer part like a windshield.
6. Inside, you can put a little man cut out of paper by attaching it with tape.

To make the wheels of the car spin, put a drop of glue on the ends of the toothpicks. Dried glue will prevent the removal of paper wheels when driving.

Paper car sweep diagram: how to make

The machine sweep diagram can be downloaded from the Internet. The presented models allow you to make any kind of equipment from paper from special to Soviet times.

To make a figure according to the scheme, you must:

• Selected scheme of the car model;
• Scissors, cardboard;
• Glue.

How to do:

1. For the stability of the future figure, stick the picture of the scheme on cardboard. Trim after drying.
2. Fold along the lines of the layout details. Glue them, carefully hiding the places of gluing.

How to make a paper car (video)

Assembling an origami machine or its schematic construction will seem a bit complicated at first. However, fascinating and cognitive activity will delight the future designer. Handwork develops the thinking of the baby, helping to improve the fine motor skills of the hands. And the made machine will become the most beloved of all toys.

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This is not just some car, but a legendary car with an interesting history - the Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing". Below is a fascinating reading about how a copy of the legendary car was made from scratch, and not just a copy, but a car assembled from original parts. In the process of creating the Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing", the suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107 was used. Remembering that the best is the enemy of the good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Particular attention should be paid to the rear axle gearbox, usually it is with it that the biggest problems arise, which is why customizers love solid axles so much. On a Mercedes, this unit, along with the drives, is assembled on a subframe, which makes it much easier to work with it.



The stainless steel exhaust system complies with the Euro 3 standard, and the fuel tank is a real work of art: baffles and overflow pipes are installed in it to prevent the fuel from splashing. In one of the photos - the steering wheel lock




In the Gullwing project, it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and a power of 220 hp. paired with an automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of engine was not accidental - it is more powerful, lighter and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a torque converter, many of these units are familiar from the Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic booster was also installed, all units are new, so there should be no problems.

We make a body.
Back in 1955, Daimler Benz produced 20 cars with an aluminum body and one with a composite body. We decided to try composite.


After the manufacture of the body and assembly of the chassis, the crossing of the body with the frame begins. The process is so painstaking and dreary that no photos and words will convey. Assembly and disassembly, adjustment - all this takes more than one day. Many details are finalized on the spot, and the body is attached to the frame through special dampers with bolts in 30 places. All body parts are installed and adjusted - doors, hood, trunk lid. There is a lot of trouble with glass - they are mounted on rubber seals, and since all seals are original and designed for steel, you have to strictly observe the thickness of the frames of the openings. Each part is removed, adjusted by hand and only then installed in place.







Many parts for the most popular rare models are still produced in small batches in some workshops, which is actively used by all restorers. But what is there to hide, the factories themselves forge their rarities, especially Audi and Mercedes have succeeded in this.
In many museums there are candid copies. So recently, a lot of "Horkhov" has bred. This is especially interesting, given that all factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years churn out fakes, passing them off as carefully restored products. The devil is in the details.
So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every nut and bolt (I'm not talking about rubber bands) is correctly marked in 1955. Everything is original, even the seats.
The body has already been primed, and this is the most important point, because the composite is a special material in painting, because plasticizers and all sorts of other complex things are needed here. The secrets of the primer are kept and no one will ever tell you. But it looks nice.



In the meantime, the body is being painted, let's prepare the components for assembly. As I said - the devil is in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand of them in the car! Dashboard, she was looking for a very long time.
We also find devices and relays, of course, not everything turns out right away.
But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Parts.
The main thing is that it also works later: the devices are all expensive. Cheap is not good.

The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be pasted over with a chrome film. Yes, shagreen is a must, well, grain, so that it is fine. Now they don’t paint like that anymore, they dilute everything with water, they have ecology, they protect nature. By the way, paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult to paint, any painter will tell you.




They finally married the chassis with the body.



Installed doors. It would seem that the matter is not tricky, but I want to tell you one story. The Mercedes 300SL "Gullwing" had many design flaws. One of them was the doors themselves: they were steel, heavy and hinged to the roof of the body, and were fixed by a spring enclosed between hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end. In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when the door was lowered, stretching with a roar, the door slammed shut. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the resistance of the spring, which simply pulled out the door along with the brackets (900 euros each). Experienced owners of "Gullwing" know that with inept use, this will inevitably lead to deformation of the roof, moreover, the brackets themselves simply break. The stem and spring assembly has become insanely scarce over time, and its cost has risen to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these units once a season. We decided to go the other way and install gas shock absorbers. It would seem that something easier, but it was not there. I had to develop the whole assembly, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, there was a workshop that brought ideas and drawings to life. With complete external authenticity, the doors today open like the rear fifth door of a German SUV. The knot turned out to be so successful that it immediately became the object of desire of all the owners of rarities, I think that soon all "gullwings" will have doors that open very effectively and smoothly, without knocking. Now this process has really become similar to the flapping of a gull's wing - gracefully and smoothly. This is just one, and the simplest example of the tasks that had to be solved when building this car.
By the way, the door lock mechanism has also undergone changes. Despite the cost of 1500 euros, it stuck very often and did not fix the door, but that's another story.

At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that interior trim was the smallest problem, since there are workshops for altering interiors at every step, so what, and now any master can handle leather. The business is to sheathe a bunch of details with leather, but as it turned out, this is a HUGE PROBLEM! After four attempts to create interior details in tuning studios, I realized that everything is much more complicated. Created products by no means wanted to look like the original. Everything looked like a cheap fake: the leather was bristling, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not match, and no one could pick up the material. In short, I began to delve into the subtleties and found out that modern masters are completely unable to work with felt, wool and other materials used at that time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, used foam rubber wherever they could, actively worked with an iron, in short, mercilessly destroyed materials, depriving them of their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability either. After suffering for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have special foam rubber and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, uncles, under 60 years old, who have been restoring only Mercedes for 40 years. What they showed us and told us is just a novel about the skin, and they guard their secrets in much the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar. Interior details for my baby were made for 4 months. The skin is just alive.
I will also add that the skin that manufacturers offer today is chemical bullshit with impregnations. It is not for nothing that all the owners of Mercedes and BMWs go nuts after a year of operation - the interiors look like those of old redvans: stale, the skin stretches, peels off. As I said earlier, the devil is in the details.
I'm not talking about vinyl, widely used by the Japanese, and by all manufacturers in principle. Now in Mercedes there is not enough leather even for a jacket, one bullshit, that's why options appear - "designo", "individual", "exclusive". Leading manufacturers will offer you real leather for at least 10-15 thousand dollars, but what they sew for you for 50 thousand rubles cannot even be called leather.

Wheels are one of the important parts of a car. So for our handsome man there were two types of wheels. The first were placed on the civilian version.
The latter were offered as an option. They came from sports - real ones, with a central nut. Of course, it's nice to have chrome wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.
How then to hit a nut with a hammer, knowing that it is gold? The original disc for the classics is also not cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think, I really want to save 8 thousand euros.
One of the main factors in the operation of the engine is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to recall the laws of thermodynamics here, I will only say that for the last 150 years the exhaust pipe has been a symbol of progress. Remember locomotive pipes, steamboats, blast furnaces. Remembering my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that was given the closest attention. This is a masterpiece of engineering.
The exhaust system is made of stainless steel, which no manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of thick-walled and thin-walled pipes mounted one into the other, which, with the complete authenticity of the appearance of the pipe, solved the problem of "gulving" - noise and heating of the passenger compartment. Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved with the help of resonators installed inside the system. If you want to understand what kind of car you have - look at the exhaust pipe! Don't pay attention to the date on the photo, just bought a decent fotik. They snapped it off, but they didn’t understand the instructions, it turned out to be the wrong date. We have made many changes to the design, we try to do everything as authentically as possible. A very clever hand.
With a tank, a separate song, they made their own from stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.




There is a good saying - it is better to see once than to read about it a hundred times. My favorite expression, which I have repeated more than once, is THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS. These are the details I will show you. There is no point in writing for a long time, you will understand everything yourself. Braided harnesses and wiring, well, I think you just haven’t seen this yet, a two-tone horn, in short, just look, all this is called TECHNOLOGIES.


The main task facing the implementation of this project was to create complete authenticity of all interior details. It would seem that it could be easier than copying an existing sample, but as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than even restoring. So, we had to make all analog devices work, and work correctly with the electronic units of modern units; stick a bunch of additional equipment into a cramped little car, such as air conditioning, hydraulic booster, brake booster. All this should work from standard toggle switches and switches. The dampers of the stove used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga GAZ-21, so the stove had to be thoroughly redone. But the biggest problem was the manufacture of the gear selector.
The whole difficulty lay in the fact that the car was originally built for sports, it was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed at an inclination of 30 degrees so as not to break the silhouette of the car. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct articulated drive.
There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, and this problem had to be solved. Since a standard engine-box pair was taken, the task became even more difficult, because the automatic box is much larger in size and has a completely different control principle.

After much torment, a hinge and a system of rods were designed, which made it possible to completely imitate this assembly, which is easy to verify by looking at the original.
Well, the most interesting: if you carefully study the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, this is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so cramped that a person with a height of 180 cm rested his head on the roof and was forced to sit hunched over at the steering wheel, but I like to drive with straight arms, so I had to change the angle of the steering column to ensure comfort and not disrupt the overall look. How this was achieved is a novel, from the manufacture of the unique sled to the alteration of the floor and seats.

I'm not the first to decide to recreate the legendary car. Back in the late 70s, similar attempts were made in America, with Tony Ostermeier, a former mechanical engineer from Gardena, the furthest advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years using units from Mercedes of those years. Today, these machines are themselves rarities. I saw them, of course, they are not as high quality products as we would like, but this is the best thing that has been done. In the 90s, there were attempts by the American company Speedster, using the Tony matrix, to implant it on the components of the Chevrolet Corvette C3. Only 2 cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. The cars were sold for $150,000.
Actually, that's all. True, there were attempts to put a shell on the SL and many more high-profile statements, but all this is zilch, people ran ahead of the locomotive, as with our yo-mobile: there is nothing yet, but 40 thousand applications have already been submitted. By the way, working with a composite is very difficult. Only its high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, and most importantly: forging and copying are two BIG differences.
They say that everything in the car should be perfect, both the engine and the trunk. On the first car, they decided to use gas shock absorbers to open and fix the trunk lid. We redesigned the filler neck a little, sensibly considering that if it is hermetically sealed to the trunk lid, this will reduce the risk of the smell of gasoline spreading inside the cabin in case of spillage.
I didn't like the idea. On this machine, they made it closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (a steel funnel around the cap should prevent fuel from spilling onto the Carpet). Of course, it could not have done without a collective farm: they built a leather casing around the filler neck. It seems to look nice, and they abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) for fixing the trunk lid. It was possible, of course, to get confused with the springs, as on modern cars, but it seems to me that this will kill the very spirit of the machine. The open trunk looks great.
And yes, the back looks great. Considering that today everyone already uses tubeless tires, we decided to free up space by placing a stowaway in the trunk instead of a standard wheel. Now at least there is a place to throw a string bag.
Actually, the case is inexorably moving towards its logical conclusion. Of course, it's nice that everything ends so quickly, all that's left is to rub it with a little paint and stick on the wheels.


The wheels are temporary so as not to spoil the original.





That's basically it!