If Horatio Pagani’s company can be reduced to marketing buzzwords, some that come to mind are “ludicrous” and “chimera.” The new Huayra, and the Zonda it replaces, may sit at the top of the hypercar segment purely from an aesthetic standpoint, with wild exteriors and interiors that marry steampunk and Cartier. Suffice it to say, Pagani ownership is the exclusive domain of lucky individuals who flamboyant about their oligarch status. They’re the kind of cars driven by villains in Luc Besson movies. So what about Pagani fans without chrome-laden sport jackets? The nerds like us, who still play with Legos?
Lego, erm, enthusiast Firas Abu-Jaber has, in his own words, “been playing with Legos since I was eating Cerelac!” And that’s why he built a scale Zonda C12S. There’s a special brand of free-form obsessive-compulsion that drives folks to build Lego replica vehicles that aren’t company-sanctioned kits, yet still hew to some uncanny standards of realism, — despite the 8-bit nature of brick construction.
The unfortunate consequence of this otherwise rather badical piece of plastic-brick engineering is that we now have, “Lego Zonda, Leg-lego Zonda, Le-go Zon-da-yeeeah! Git’er outta my heart!” stuck in our head. Unfortunate mangling of the Beach Boys’ second number-one smash hit aside, we’re rather impressed with the builder’s skill and dedication. And his obsessive accumulation of the correct pieces to make the project work.
You can see more pictures of the Lego Zonda—including the disturbing level of detail—at Firas Abu-Jaber’s page here.
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