Formula 1 car with 956,000 matchsticks

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Formula 1 car with 956,000 matchsticks

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We all have different ways that we spend our time and money, but probably nothing quite like how Michael Arndt spent 6000 Euros and six years. The matchstick master built a full scale Mercedes-McLaren F1 car in his kitchen using 956,000 matchsticks and 1686 tubes of glue. The car can even be taken apart for easy transportation, which is good since at some point Arndt might want to leave his parent’s house. Check out the gallery below to see the incredible detail and some of the building process.

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Thats just insane…way too much time on his hands

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If he used fiberglass, aluminum, and some chrome moly steel, he could have been driving it right now

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get a life!!!

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:wtf people come up with some stupid ideas when they have nothing better to do

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Just read the tidbit of info… he stilll lives home-that explains it :lol

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serious time there, but agreed, why not just make a REAL kit car?

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I bet it weighs more than the real thing. He should put a heavy coat of shillac on that thing and get Mercedes/McLaren to put it in the wind tunnel vs the real thing to see how good it does. Maybe he would get a real job so he could move out and buy his parents a house for the trouble he has caused them. :ponder

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:rofl

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Well thats…retarded.

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kinda kool he can do that…but than again what a waste of time

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Why on earth would you chose the material for such a project - matchsticks?

Leave it by the window on a hot summer day and it just might make the news in a way he didn’t intend :lol