A TEAM of film fanatics have built their very own car equipped with machine guns and an RPG. Inspired by the 2008 movie Death Race, which starred British actor Jason Statham, the car started life as a Chrysler 300. Angelo Zannin, and his team Z Montagen, a group of shop fitters from Braunschweig, Germany, managed to build the vehicle in just a few months. The car conversion cost the dedicated team around $20,000 to build as it was in terrible condition when it arrived at their garage. Similar to its movie counterpart, the car boasts an arsenal of weapons and gadgets and can even emit smoke from the back and has a push button ignition.
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00:00We have a main ignition, the whole electronics runs on it, the whole electricity runs here.
00:27We light the car by turning the two switches on.
00:30This is the starter, the button.
00:33Built by movie and car enthusiast Angelo Zanin, this fearsome looking vehicle is a
00:43replica of the converted Chrysler 300 that featured in the 2008 Jason Statham film, Death
00:50Race.
00:51And like the car in the movie, it has some unusual features.
00:55We have installed a toggle switch.
00:58Unlock, then the smoke is ejected at the back.
01:05Unlock here, the rocket launcher starts.
01:11The rocket launcher was a complication.
01:14Can we do that?
01:15Can we do that?
01:16That had to be discussed with the authorities.
01:18The machine guns at the front.
01:21We can spray oil at the back.
01:29The car also has a camera at the front to aid the driver's vision.
01:51With the car, we had the basic idea, be it to watch the movies, then to analyze it,
01:58how does it have to be, to collect the photos, the files and data, to collect the pictures,
02:03and about nine months.
02:05Although you have to say, we didn't work continuously, but we always went to it in our
02:10free time.
02:11With the whole conversion and everything around it, we are about € 20,000, we estimate,
02:16plus the times we put in.
02:20Angelo started with a Chrysler 300 that had seen better days.
02:51And although Angelo hasn't yet received permission to drive his creation on the road,
02:56it's already received attention online.
03:10With the death race car conversion, we have to say, it's been a great success.
03:16With the death race car complete, Angelo has already decided on his next ambitious project.
03:35Angelo now hopes to get his death race car declared road legal and take it to events
03:40so more people can see it.