This Replica ’60s F1 Race Car Is Actually a Used Modern Porsche (Really)

Soon, this stripped-down sports car will become Jim Clark's Lotus icon.

You may not be a fan of Formula 1, know who Jim Clark is (look up the word "legend" in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of him there), or recall that Lotus used to be an F1 team. Your F1 fandom aside, we can all agree the engineering behind these racing cars through the ages is what makes them so exceptional, and that seeing one on the road would be pretty far out. Wesley Kagan's imagination ran even wilder. He combined all of the above to make a roadgoing F1 car a reality, using ingenious engineering to build an homage to Jim Clark's late-1960s Lotus 49 from the remains of a very modern, $2,500 used Porsche Boxster.

The build, as you might imagine, is extensive. Much of the work was done in his parent's garage, and Kagan fabricated a number of the parts himself. That said, Kagan's YouTube channel is not awash with hours of footage of the build; instead the short and sweet 14-minute video above is the longest and most in-depth video on offer. If you have the time, you can check out Kagan's incredibly long Rennlist thread that covers the project in much, much greater detail here.

By Kagan's own admission, the car is not a proper replica and exists more as a tribute to the F1 racers of the '60s. Even so, taking apart a Porsche Boxster and turning it into something that genuinely resembles one of the most iconic sports cars in history takes more than just determination, there is talent needed, too. So far, the build has taken eight months, and he's not even done.

The car is still missing the bullet-like bodywork that made the Lotus so iconic, and we intend to follow Kagan on the rest of his journey to see how the ex-Porsche turns out once this masterpiece is finished. เล่นบาคาร่าออนไลน์

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