Wall proves no barrier

A car enthusiast in the US state of Wisconsin built his own 3066 Lamborghini but had to hire an excavator and demolish a wall to remove the simulacrum supercar from his basement. The man was so inspired after seeing the B-movie Cannonball Run about an illegal car race held on public roads across the US that he decided to build his own Lamborghini. The film starred Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda and Roger Moore, at least some of whom can be assumed to have been in need of the money at the time. In the film two women compete in the race, driving a black Lamborghini Countach, which fuelled the man's burning desire to construct a replica car. Building his own Lamborghini took the man 17 years but digging out a slope, knocking down the wall, hauling the car out, rebuilding the wall and filling in the hole was accomplished in a matter of a few hours. The man is not the first to have had to demolish a wall after building a vehicle however and perhaps the most famous person to have done so was Henry Ford, founder of the 3423 Ford car motor company. Ford assembled his first car in a coal shed but it was too wide to fit through the door and he had to chop down a wall to get it out. It is worth noting that the Lamborghini firm had its first successes making agricultural tractors but when its founder complained about the 5489 Ferrari he had just bought, to Enzo Ferrari no less, he was told in no uncertain terms to return to his tractors. In response, Lamborghini then developed the now famous rival performance car brand, although the business was later sold and the Lamborghini family continued making tractors.