Colorado father and son 3D printing their own Lamborghini

The Lamborghini Aventador costs over $400,000, putting it out of reach for most people.

That’s what Sterling Backus of Erie, Colo., is doing, after he and his son, Xander, decided they wanted their own supercar while playing a racing game.

They’ve been working on it for over a year, and the sleek black two-door is starting to take a shape that's not a carbon copy of the Aventador, but heavily inspired by it.

Backus is a physicist who works as the Chief Scientific Officer of a local laser firm and is an adjunct professor at Colorado State University.

He has been using hobbyist printers that cost just a few hundred dollars each to create dozens of plastic body pieces, which he wraps in carbon fiber for added strength and heat resistance before he attaches them to a spaceframe he designed and constructed out of steel box tubing.

The car uses a few authentic Lamborghini parts he mostly picked up used, but will be powered by a mid-mounted V8 from a 2003 Corvette that drives the rear wheels through a Porsche 911 transmission.

Backus estimates he's spent around $20,000 so far and said he is hoping to get it registered for the street when it's roadworthy this fall.

The project is being chronicled on Facebook and he told Fox 31 that he plans to drive the finished product to schools with his son to teach kids about STEM.

Well, I left Kentucky back in ‘49
An’ went to Detroit workin’ on a ‘sembly line

The first year they had me puttin’ wheels on cadillacs

Every day I’d watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I’d hang my head and cry

‘Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man

I’d sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand

Now gettin’ caught meant gettin’ fired
But I figured I’d have it all by the time I retired

I’d have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

[CHORUS]

I’d get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn’t cost me a dime

You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town
I’m gonna ride around in style

I’m gonna drive everybody wild
‘Cause I’ll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends

I left that day with a lunch box full of gears

Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn’t miss just one little piece

Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk

Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome

The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an’ bolts, and all four shocks

But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy’s mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
‘Til we tried to put it all together one night

And that’s when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a ‘53
And the motor turned out to be a ‘73

And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit

We had that engine runnin’ just like a song

Now the headlight’ was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right

But when we pulled out the switch all three of ‘em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru

Well, that’s when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin

About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts

But she opened the door and said “Honey, take me for a spin.”

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag

I could hear everybody laughin’ for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn’t laugh

‘Cause to type it up it took the whole staff

And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

[CHORUS]

I got it one piece at a time
And it didn’t cost me a dime

You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town
I’m gonna ride around in style
I’m gonna drive everybody wild

‘Cause I’ll have the only one there is around.

[Spoken] Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER

This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER

You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it’s cheaper that way

Ugh!, what model is it?

Well, It’s a ‘49, ‘50, ‘51, ‘52, ‘53, ‘54, ‘55, ‘56
‘57, ‘58’ 59’

automobile

It’s a ‘60, ‘61, ‘62, ‘63, ‘64, ‘65, ‘66, ‘67
‘68, ‘69, ‘70

automobile

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