@Flathead Smith: I've made some air intakes and other random parts for some of those formula SAE cars using 3D Printers at work. We've done it for sponsorship for a few uni's now.

Just when I though my James May man-crush couldn't get any stronger..

I have no idea.

@I gotta job, I'm gonna pay the rent: I believe the proper local pronunciation is SHTRAY YA

With the knowledge Holden have gleemed here about engineering Zeta into a convertible, it becomes significantly less challenging for them to do it to the Commodore.

huge traps for such a slim bloke

@fELIXADER: Post of the motherfucking century. Seriously.

He didn't "make it." A machine made it. He produced the CAD for a Rapid Prototyping firm to build it, probably using a Z-Corp 3D printer.

If by crazy, you mean a God amongst men, then yes, I agree completely.

@MtlAngelus: And some games purposed it pretty good, like tilting the controller left bringing up the scoreboard in MP instead of something far less practical for a quick check like the select button.

@leavethegun-takethecannoli: Agreed. But I don't think this cars interior will have too many problems in 10 years.

A lot of coastal streets here in Adelaide, South Australia are lined with these tree's standing a good 100ft tall. They're quite pretty and those prongs could grow quite long and flexible so they were excellent for belting your mates legs into welted masses.

I make a living in the rapid prototyping/digital manufacturing industry, and trust me, that sort of quality is not far off. Some pieces of equipment are already quite capable of producing objects of that resolution, but not the colour. Any stereolithography machine could produce a model of that accuracy.

If anyone's actually keen on the Sporn idea, there's nothing stopping you from extracting the data yourself and asking a Rapid Prototyping firm to quote on it.

@katsujinken: Z-Corp machines can run full colour. The material is actually more of a plaster that is adhered layer by layer. A set of ink jets colour each layer between adhesions. It's not melted and extruded plastics like the reprap (the commercial equivelant being a machine called the Stratasys). That said, the…

I run the technology that does this for a living. Both Z-Corp 3D printers, and SLS Machines. I can tell you now that $49.50 is an astonishingly cheap price given that these machines are usually used by service bureaus specializing in rapid prototyping processes for the engineering sector.

@hammerhand: Well it was given out under the guise of economic stimulus; people were encouraged to go out and spend it asap.

It's interesting just how much of that money has probably ended up in the pockets of asian electronics manufacturers.

@Hunter217: You really do fit into one hell of a minority there.. How many other people are jamming away on some Bon Jovi and thinkin' 'You know what this game needs, some freaking J-Rock bro'

@Polite Society: Actually, our Dollar was quite good back during the early 90's recession, it hovered around the 75-85c mark. When interest rates are so high, the value of currency is increased significantly. We were at 50c through the "Golden Age" of 2001.