When was this car built?

Hint, it wasn't' 1970

I can't see the pic, but I can guess that it is a Lancia Stratos.

1978, about 10 years after the Alfa Carabo.

The future

Nope, I just found out about this.  Obviously the original Stratos One Concept car was built in 1970.  This was 'built' by a guy called Andy Saudners  in the UK.  Here's the blurb on this particular car.

It is probably not unfair to say andy fell in love with this car when he was a child. In 2003 whilst looking for another project Saunders found what at first sight looked like the Zero but at a price that didn’t make logical sense. On further investigation it was found to be a film prop body Shell made for the Michael Jackson film “Moonwalker”.
When the film was being made Michael had a film prop company make not one, but three body shells to be used in the film to metamorphis from the Zero into Michael.
Saunders figured as the original was still in the hands of Bertone and at that time likely never to be sold, he bought this prop and imported it from the states.

The body was one piece with no seperate windows doors or apartures, just a one piece tub. The work was soon started to rectify this and soon it started to look even more like the real shell.

The donor vehicle for the mechanics was a Fiat X-19 which gave up its floor pan and running gear to which the shell was fitted and all aperatures windows grills and lights were made.

The car appeared in news features across the world including the stylish Lusso Magazine.

And some more pics. 

The couple from the construction

I'm stumped, looks just like the Stratos Zero concept that was shown in 1970.

Some of his other creations

GameboyRMH said:

I'm stumped, looks just like the Stratos Zero concept that was shown in 1970.

It's a Dome Zero concept from 1978.  Or, apparently, a copy of one.

There is so much awesome in this thread. I'm in overload. 

That car was on Jay Leno's car show.  He even drove it around a bit.  VERY bad visibility.  You enter it through the front window which hinges up like a hatch back.  Not easy to get into as you can imagine.

 Looks like this cars metamorphosis was better than Michael Jackson ...

I want a reliant robin land speed car

I guess I am the only one that can't see any pics in this thread? Sometimes firefox blocks random things.

EDIT: Can see the pics just fine with a different browser. That guy has tastes that tend to run a bit quirky.

I can see the pics fine in Firefox (but apparently I time my posts very poorly )

That man certainly knows how to stick things to other things! He should post in the glue thread!

That's my favorite - looks like a Pablo Picasso 2CV.  

Thread of the day.

I love this guy's style !

Apparently he dislikes comfortable seating positions easy ingress/egress, and outward visibility.

I was ready to deploy the "What the f..." .GIF even before I saw the dogbone Escort / Ford Courier / other piles of WTF thing.  And then it just kept getting more bizarre.

Normally, that kind of crazy you see in a Craigslist ad after someone spent ten years and at least two hundred dollars worth of welding wire and Bondo.

jstein77 said:

That's my favorite - looks like a Pablo Picasso 2CV.  

That thing is amazing. It’s a ton of work to make something that weird.