BMW makes 4-year old’s dream come true by designing a 19-engined race car
Little did four-year old Eli know that when he fantasized about his dream car to his uncle, that BMW would not only listen, but pen a vehicle just for him. The heart-warming tale began last week at auto enthusiast website Jalopnik, when a reader asked if design-savvy posters would draw up a dream car for his budding enthusiast nephew.
There’s a tall spindle inside the right-front wheel well, made to look just like the one on the genuine article. The bars in the back window are covered in black electrical tape — one wrapped in one direction, the other in the opposite — exactly as they were five decades ago. There’s a gap in the tape coating the support bar next to the bucket seat, and the foam underneath sticks out just like it did in 1963. The car is hand lettered and painted in its original colors, Rangoon red and Corinthian white.
At first glance, it appears to be the exact Ford Galaxie that Tiny Lund drove — in a substitute role, no less — to win the 1963 Daytona 500 for the Wood Brothers. This one  … More
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BMW makes 4-year old’s dream come true by designing a 19-engined race car