There's a great Johnny Cash song, One Piece at a Time, where the song's protagonist decides that, despite being a line-worker for GM, he really deserves him a Cadillac. To achieve this noble goal, it's not hard work and maybe some night school he decides upon, but stealing it one piece at a time and then reassembling it in his garage.
This is sort of like that but backwards. Lamborghini wanted to display the all-new Aventador at the Chiostro del Bramante museum in Rome as part of 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. Trouble is, Aventadors are huge and the museum is located in a very old church in Rome and is very old. And being a Bramante (St. Peter's Basillica), they didn't really want Lamborghini tearing down a bunch of walls. So they had to take apart the car....
bodyblue says:
04:23 PM, 05/13/11
"I got one piece at a time and it didnt cost me a dime"
One of my very favorite Johnny Cash songs! Of course I like most anything the Man in Black did. I have a poster in my "Man Cave" of him in a recording studio yelling at the camera while flipping it off....one of my fav pics of him.
standingwave says:
06:03 PM, 05/13/11
T-Rex doesn't want to be contained, he wants to hunt.… This is an insult to engineering. If Italians want to see the Aventadador all they have to do is cruise up the Mediterranean coast on their Vespa scooters and watch one roll out of the factory. Or they could have just stayed in Rome and watched Lamborghini film that last advertisement for it.
kevm14 says:
05:29 AM, 05/14/11
That was interesting. But the unibody "piece" really wasn't smaller than the whole car. Just lighter since some pieces were missing. I guess that's what you get with modern cars, but I was hoping for them to take it down to much smaller pieces to bring through a much smaller door.
7driver says:
02:48 PM, 05/14/11
@kevm
It may have not been much smaller but it was probably a lot lighter. The weight of a fully assembled car might've been a problem, especially if was supported by the side structure, had to go on an elevator, etc.
kevm14 says:
03:40 PM, 05/14/11
No doubt it was lighter, but I think I was mislead by the title "piece-by-piece." For me, I imagined something different.
altimadude05 says:
07:52 AM, 05/16/11
So when will I see the DIY kit at IKEA for this? I need a new coffee table.