# Formula 1 car with 956,000 matchsticks
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707
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**Created:** [February 18, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707 "2008-02-18T09:38:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/1 "2008-02-18T09:38:44Z")
Formula 1 car with 956,000 matchsticks
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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### Author:  [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/2 "2008-02-18T09:55:58Z")
Thats just insane…way too much time on his hands
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### Author:  [@Johawk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johawk)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/3 "2008-02-18T09:57:06Z")
If he used fiberglass, aluminum, and some chrome moly steel, he could have been driving it right now
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### Author:  [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/4 "2008-02-18T09:58:23Z")
get a life!!!
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### Author:  [@RSeX119](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RSeX119)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/5 "2008-02-18T09:58:49Z")
:wtf people come up with some stupid ideas when they have nothing better to do
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### Author:  [@RSeX119](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RSeX119)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/6 "2008-02-18T10:00:17Z")
Just read the tidbit of info… he stilll lives home-that explains it :lol
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### Author:  [@Fn\_Skanks](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fn_Skanks)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/7 "2008-02-18T10:42:58Z")
serious time there, but agreed, why not just make a REAL kit car?
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### Author:  [@Johawk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johawk)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/8 "2008-02-18T10:48:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/9 "2008-02-18T10:56:37Z")
> [@Johawk](#):
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> 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
:rofl
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/10 "2008-02-18T13:50:42Z")
Well thats…retarded.
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### Author:  [@91teg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91teg)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/11 "2008-02-18T15:58:08Z")
kinda kool he can do that…but than again what a waste of time
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/formula-1-car-with-956-000-matchsticks/235707/12 "2008-02-18T18:14:05Z")
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