This man has proven you can create your dream car from nothing

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

We all love to personalise our cars to suit our individual tastes. Sometimes that is adding a set of car seat covers or tinted wheels, other times the car looks fresh from the last The Fast and the Furious movie.

And then you have super-talented guys like Canada’s Percy Adler who designed and made his own car from scratch!

With his love of pre-WW2 Grand Prix cars Percy styled his cars after the 1930s Auto Unions, even calling his creation the "Nuvolari" after famed driver Tazio Nuvolari.

Percy has designed his own lightweight aluminium chassis and body, with advanced in-board suspension, weighing just 650kg and powered by a revvy Alfa Romeo two-litre twin-cam four-cylinder.

While he started designing the chassis in the early 1990s thanks to family pressures didn't finish it until July last year. Still, he has racked up over 7000km on road since then. You can read a full interview with Percy and all the specs on the Nuvolari at The Creators Online

Iain Kelly is the beating heart behind The Creators Online, which showcases people who build “cool stuff”.

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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