14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that a technology teacher currently living in Hamilton, New Zealand has managed to set a new standard for recycling old beer and coke cans.
Long story short, Sandy Sanderson has found that said items are perfect to build car replicas, and has been collecting them and using them to carry out such projects for about eight years now.
Sandy Sanderson used to live in England and he first trained to be a draughtsman.
It was only when he moved to new Zealand that he took a liking to DIY projects that boiled down to piecing together aircrafts, classic cars and bikes models, and decided to become a technology teacher.
At first, the teacher used kits purchased from various sources to build his models.
However, while recovering from an injury he suffered during work on designing and building string instruments, it struck him that, instead of kits, he could easily recycle beer and coke cans.
Daily Mail tells us that Sandy Sanderson successfully completed work on his first car made from recycled beer and coke containers in 2006.
The vehicle was made from eight Coruba and eight Cola cans, and looked pretty impressive.
Over the years, he added more so-called can cars to his collection, and most of them are complete with pedals, headlights, even detailed engines.
“Due to the cans being as thin as a piece of paper, a wooden inner structure had to be made to support the flimsy shell before carefully cutting and creasing the panels to shape.”
“Other materials used include superglue, galvanized wire, electrical cable, tiny nuts and bolts, and washers, aluminum tubing and a few pins from a sewing kit,” Sandy Sanderson explains.
“Although these are not models of real cars, the size of them would put them at about 1:10 scale. They do not have any working features, just nice to look at,” he adds.
The cars made by this technology teacher can be bought on sandycancars.com. Those who feel like building one themselves will see that the website also provides plans for such DIY projects.