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Man Builds Scale Shelby Cobra, Ferrari 250 GTO for His Daughter Scarlett

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I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, owning a bicycle was but a dream. Yet there is one little princess in Britain who has her own car collection at a very tender age.
Her name is Scarlett and her father built her 1/2 scale replicas of some of the coolest cars in the world, including a blue Shelby Cobra. So while most other girls her age play with dolls, this cheeky lass gets to experience a car most grown men would kill for.

The Cobra replica is built from fiberglass over a steel wire frame. It even has a small engine located in the boot, which is a Honda GX31 4-stroke unit fitted with an electric starter and centrifugal clutch. With only 1.5 horsepower used to push around 50 kilograms of weight, it won't perform like a small-block V8, but at least it's cool.

But the collection doesn't end there. As the coolest dad in the world has also made a replica of the Ferrari 250 GTO, which we'd argue is even cooler than the Cobra. He also constructed the legendary 300 Gullwing, a Bugatti Type 35 in light blue and a dark green Blower Bentley.

Since the arrival of Scarlett's younger sister Maddie, some of the cars have even been converted as two-seaters.

So who is super-dad who loves his daughters so much?

His name is Stuart Gurr and apart from making some of the most amazing scale replicas for his daughters Scarlett and Maddie, he also owns a company called "Vmaxcart, which specializing in classic car tuning, modification and restoration. I have a fully equipped machine shop, to manufacture everything in house, rolling road dyno and flow bench to check and test and develop."

Something tells me Stuart will raise a couple of racing drivers...

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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