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A PRIVATE car designer has spent more than10 years building a one-off supercar – and it can now reach 200mph. Adam Taylor completed the unique vehicle inside his Hawaiian garage, the build process spanned several states and he enlisted the help of two shops that had specialised shaping equipment. During his student and grad years, Adam worked tirelessly to bring his initial design to life and ended up achieving his dream with a 950hp and 8,000rpm engine. Adam describes the vehicle, dubbed the RX777, as a ‘work of art’ and something that can never be replicated.


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Videographer: Jorge Monteallegre
Producer: Danny Baggott, Ruby Coote
Editor: Marcus Cooper

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00:00It's really almost more of a work of art than it is just a car.
00:05This was not produced massively or in any number other than one.
00:22I'm Adam Taylor and I'm from Oahu, Hawaii.
00:26Today I have the honor and pleasure in introducing my personally designed, hand-built supercar that I've dubbed the RX
00:33777.
00:42This vehicle took me 10 years to build, the main reason being that I built it mainly through my college
00:48and grad school years.
00:49So obviously there is limited time and funds available, but I pursued it consistently to reach what I think is
00:58perfection now.
00:58It took me a while.
01:09So this car weighs in at a fighting weight of 2,700 pounds.
01:16The car is very wide. The width is wider than like a Dodge Viper, yet the wheelbase is short as
01:22a Mazda Miata.
01:23So it's a very hopped up go-kart type feel where your feet are almost touching the front wheel and
01:27your back is almost touching the back wheel.
01:29So it's very compact but very wide.
01:32It makes 950 horsepower at 8,000 RPM.
01:36So it's basically like a NASCAR engine on steroids.
01:39Completely capable of 200 miles an hour at this time.
02:02I think the most challenging aspect of this build was reaching near-perfect symmetry with the body.
02:08So the whole body as you see was hand-shaped out of sheet metal.
02:12So it took a lot of time and revisions to get both sides and every panel of the car to
02:17match up.
02:19Moving this way, so we have the all steel hand-rolled body starting from this fender all the way back.
02:27To finish out the back design, we have this nice overly exaggerated ducktail spoiler as you see here.
02:33I think it fits the body lines very well.
02:35And this is one of my favorite aspects of this design.
02:38This build is well into the six figures.
02:42I kind of stopped keeping track for my own sake and sanity at one point.
02:46But if you look over the components, each component is top shelf.
02:51No expense spared in each of the components that I chose to use in this build.
02:56I'm humbled and grateful that after that much time, money spent, effort, that I have a finished product that turns
03:03out pretty well, I think.
03:05The car, in my mind, is, I guess, priceless.
03:08Once you've created the concept and then you've done well bringing it into reality,
03:12I think it's instantly kind of an iconic type thing where it's in its own class.
03:16It's not compared to other vehicles.
03:18It can't be, you know, outdated by a New Year model.
03:21And so, in that sense, it's kind of in its own realm.
03:24And it's difficult to put a figure on the value of it currently.
03:31Most of the time, the reaction I get is, wow.
03:34And then, how did you do that?
03:39There's always another build on the horizon.
03:41I have a large one in the works.
03:43A concept vehicle, kind of a military stealth truck, if you will.
03:47So, I'd like to share that with you later.
03:57When I finally finished the car and got to drive it,
04:00the feel of the car, the sound of the car, the power,
04:02and everything kind of coming together perfectly the way I'd originally imagined.
04:05It was absolutely exhilarating.
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