00:00Automatron is the best thing I've ever built,
00:03and I'll probably never build anything quite this detailed ever again.
00:14I wanted somewhere between Cinderella's carriage and a competition altered.
00:19In 2015, inventor Paul started work on his most ambitious project to date.
00:31Having already completed his impressive car, the Cosmetron, he began work on his next invention.
00:37This car has been the most expensive car I've ever built,
00:40and also it's been the most labour-intensive up to now. Nearly every part is custom on this car.
00:46Four years of hard work later, and Paul has finally finished his once-in-a-lifetime creation,
00:53and he's ready to unveil it.
00:55This is my car. Automatron.
01:08I wanted to build a hot rod. Fenderless and the engine out.
01:13I didn't want to build anything like what had been built before.
01:20I wanted to go back to the days of the horse-drawn carriage.
01:23I also looked at a lot of top-fueled dragster cars as well.
01:27One of the main things people always ask about is, you know, what's the engine?
01:31The engine's V8, and it's got Arden heads on it, and it's supercharged.
01:38Sounds like the end of the world, and it's really fast. A lot of it is that they're one-off parts.
01:44We've got the navigation binnacle from a ship. For the exhaust tips, if you got married in the 70s,
01:52people would buy you a set of six silver goblets, and these are the goblets chopped off and bolted in there.
01:58This is a fuel tank. This was originally a gas bottle. This is part of a Lancaster bomber.
02:07These switches, you would have flicked them and dropped a bomb.
02:15Out and about, driving this one of creation isn't without its quirk.
02:18I'm back. Oh, you're up. I'm making a right turn now.
02:25Vision's somewhat impaired. All you can see is carburett is an engine.
02:32It's probably the worst thing is the amount of attention. You can't stop anywhere,
02:35or, you know, you're just going to be surrounded by people.
02:38How fast does it go?
02:47The whole thing, yeah. It took me four and a half years.
02:52But I think it's great. Good job.
02:54Cheers. Thanks a lot. Cheers, mate.
02:59How fast does it go?
03:00It goes literally as fast as you dare go.
03:02What's the name?
03:04It's called Automatron.
03:05A good technique for a spin.
03:08Uh, yeah, maybe.
03:10Oh, why not?
03:11It's pretty good.
03:27Automatron is the best thing I've ever built.
03:30Most time-consuming and the most expensive thing.
03:33And I'll probably never build anything quite this detailed ever again.
03:38Okay, so that's Automatron.
03:44Sadly, you know, for me, the only thing that I really like is the building of the cars.
03:50And now it's complete. Automatron's for sale.
03:53And, you know, soon it will be gone and I'll have the money to fund my next project.
03:58I think when you've been so close to a project and built it, I don't think you can ever fully,
04:05sort of, appreciate it. Someone else, though, can buy it and, you know, I'm sure they'll love it.
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