Sterling Backus and his 11-year-old son Xander have big dreams, and they’re using modern technology to turn those dreams into reality. The father and son team from Denver, Colorado, are currently putting together one extremely cool project – a 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador powered by a Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine!
The idea for the project came about after Xander and his father drove a Lamborghini in a video game. “One day I said to him, ‘hey can we build one of those?'” Xander said.
Sterling Backus
His Dad saw it as a challenge. Although Sterling works as a physicist, he says his childhood passion for cars never really went away.
“What’s really helped is when I was a kid, I was a gear head,” Sterling said. Watching loads of YouTube videos helped as well.
Using blue prints pieced together from a toy model, Sterling and Xander used a 3D printer to create individual parts that were then wrapped in carbon fiber, finished with epoxy, and glued onto the car. Underneath the bodywork, the car also uses a variety of previously manufactured car parts, including a Chevrolet Corvette powerplant.
Sterling and Xander have been building their dream car for over a year and a half now, and hope to have it finished by next spring. They estimate they’ve spent about $20,000 on the project thus far.
While the car is still under construction, the Chevrolet Corvette engine is estimated to have enough juice to propel the 3D-printed car to 200 mph, but that has yet to be determined.
Once the car is complete, Sterling and Xander want to get it registered and street legal.
While building a Chevrolet Corvette-powered Lamborghini is obviously outrageously cool in and of itself, Sterling and Xander also say they hope the project will get kids more engaged in science and engineering.
“Okay you may hate math, you may not like science, you may not like language arts, you may not even like art, but it all comes together with this one project,” Xander said.
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Source: KCNC-TV
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Im sueing this Man for lien about the lambergini Corvette being put together as one for the idea i was in school and had a home boy who me and him talked about it before this man hes a repoff he had a website on the internet for get your Paton idea approved here he lied to people saying he and his son came out with the idea no sir it didn’t i was 17 in school in Lorena when i talk to my homie matt and my techer mike Ferguson at the time was wondering what we were talking about and me and matt talked and i came up with the idea and Justin gaylin roper sat at a table and frew it up a year later so 2019 was a lie this man is a fraud i can bet on it 2016 i even told my cousin Aaron who is dead now about my idea along with blake a nother person who said it would be cool so yes he stole the Patton from me my name is David Wayne schwarck I’m not going to lie to anyone