Ride To Die For: Movie Buff Builds Fearsome ‘Death Race’ Replica Car

Whoa! Check out what certain someones did to a Chrysler 300...

A TEAM of film fanatics have built their very own car equipped with machine guns and an RPG. Inspired by the 2008 movie Death Race, which starred British actor Jason Statham, the car started life as a Chrysler 300. Angelo Zannin, 47, and his team Z Montagen, a group of shop fitters from Braunschweig, Germany, managed to build the vehicle in just a few months. The car conversion cost the dedicated team €20K (£15,754) to build as it was in terrible condition when it arrived at their garage. Similar to its movie counterpart, the car boasts an arsenal of weapons and gadgets and can even emit smoke from the back and has a push button ignition.

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Handmade Ferrari 250 GTO: Man Builds Perfect Replicas Of Classic Cars

A CAR enthusiast has spent five painstaking years recreating one of the world’s most desirable Ferraris. Rod Tempero hand crafted the replica Ferrari 250 GTO in a chicken shed in New Zealand – but the incredible car which has a 4.4 litre, V12 engine could be worth well over one million dollars. Rod and his team specialise in handcrafting cars that otherwise would be unobtainable for enthusiasts around the world. There were only 39 of the original vehicles ever produced by Ferrari and one recently sold for more than $38m at auction...

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Germany: Knight Rider fan turns car into cult classic 'KITT'

Neato! A German-speaking Knight Rider car! Another 'KITT' replica has popped up but this time in Germany. Inventor Thomas Wetzstein took to the streets of Gaufelden to show off his unique full-scale replica of KITT, the talking car from the TV series 'Knight Rider' starring David Hasselhoff (see 2nd vid). Now all he needs is the Knight Rider theme song...

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