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Some people have hobbies like collecting stamps, building model ships, making quilts or constructing train sets.

But 44-year-old Ryan “Lightning” McQueen of Sherwood Park has spent 14 years building a twin afterburner jet-powered supercar. The supercar is built from scratch with two 18,000 horsepower Rolls Royce viper engines capable of going 640 km/h.

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McQueen used Google and YouTube over the years to learn how to build the vehicle. He didn’t know a lot about cars so he had to use creative resources to learn. He didn’t know how to weld so he had to teach himself.

“If I had a problem I just researched it,” said McQueen.

His first project was building a tube bender to construct the steel tubing for the car in a cost-efficient manner.

To create a mould for the body of the car, he took the body of a radio-controlled Ferrari Enzo, carefully sliced it from front to back in 26 pieces, put that on overhead projector paper to scale it up 10 times. He then cut the pieces out of plywood and filled them with styrofoam before doing the bodywork over top.