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The home made DeltaWing is finished!

Well, it took 337 hours, but our shed-built tribute to the experimental racer was finally ready for Le Mans…

Posted: 23 Oct 2012

THE STEALTH PHALLUS LIVES! Yep, our homespun tribute to the mighty Nissan DeltaWing racer is alive, well and runs as smoothly as liver pâté. But getting here's been a bit of a battle...

After we hatched this rather last minute plan with Nissan to make our TG mag Le Mans coverage that little bit more fun (see posts passim), creator Andy Saunders - one of the world's finest custom car builders - has thrown 337 hours at creating a rather splendid replica of the experimental racer ready for this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours. And several of those weren't terribly fun.

Words: Matthew Jones
Photography: Rowan Horncastle

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