For the last dozen years, Pierre Scerri of Avignon, France, has spent his free time, totaling 20,000 hours, building this 1:3 scale model of a Ferrari 312PB. "I wanted to make something like a dream, a Ferarri which we could have in the dining room," Scerri says in a video on the Fine Art Models Web site. Pierre's Ferrari is truly an *exact* model, complete with an operating fuel injection system, calibrated gauges, patterned lenses for the headlights, and, of course, a working 12- cylinder engine. From Fine Art Models:
The spark plugs are miniatures, the radiators were hand-built to the exact same core design as the real ones. Even the water reservoir fill cap is a Fiat radiator cap made exactly the same way as the real one and pressure tested. The suspension is exact and the hydraulically controlled brakes from the brake pedal have quick-change brake pads just as on the real car.This 12-cylinder engine just isn't any 12-cylinder engine, it is a 1:3 scale Ferrari 12-cylinder engine with the same beautiful sound. It took Pierre six months of running the engine on his own dynamometer to tune the header pipes so they would give off the same sound value as he had recorded from the engine of the real car. Once Pierre had the engine bolted together for the first time, it started on the very first try…
Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)
