Thursday, December 2, 2021

Meet Ernie Adams. He Builds Tiny Cars Out Of Old Fridges

 Via Hal

 

Ernie Adams, of Maricopa, Arizona, has been creating his incredible scaled-down replicas of full-size cars since 1965, starting with his version of a 1928 Chevy two-door sedan. The original car, known as ‘Grandpa Dwarf’, was made out of nine old refrigerators and is still running today. Since then, Ernie, now in his late-70s, has made hundreds of 11/16th scale dwarf cars, from racers to cruisers – all fully drivable and road-legal. One of the gems of his collection is his take on the 1949 Mercury two-door coupe, which he built entirely from scratch using flat sheet metal.

4 comments:

  1. There are people who build model airplanes from kits and preen when they come out looking nicely painted and polished:
    then there are craftsmen; artists, if you will.

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