Chris Rünge's 5,000 Hour Handmade Masterpiece 

Agreed. And he shows up in a comfortable shop-type jacket and t-shirt. Nothing pretentious. Nothing to prove. No loud talk, no puffing himself up. His salesmanship is in the metal.

The blunt end reminds me of the old Marcos of the sixties in the UK

Pretentious is the word

@@mikeb3172 Cite an example of his pretense.

@@mikeb3172 there's always at least one of you.

It is really fun seeing these two get together and talk about custom cars. Making drivable art out of dreams, focus, and hard work.

I wish the Dodge Viper team would leave a comment on this page with a thumbs up. It would be cool for them to see what is capable if Dodge had a hand forming design re-body team instead of having to build for the mass market

Pure genius! 😉

Bonkers! Absolutely bonkers. A genuine work of art. 50 years from now, when everybody's being driven around by AI flying cars, the owner of this car will feel rightly smug.

Oh yeah! This man is passionate and skilled and cares a lot about the quality of his work, but he had the confidence in his son's skills to know that the youngster would not mess it up. That speaks volumes about both men and their working relationship.

Beautiful car and he seems like such a nice guy, deserves all the praise he gets! My favorite of his so far.

Local being Minnesota? Or somewhere else now. Specifically what shows since I go to most in the Twin Cities and haven't seen a Runge.

He was on here a couple years ago. At the time I thought maybe Jay would commission him to build a car. When he started building the Ve"leno" with an American engine I assumed it was being built for Jay. It now looks like my assumption was incorrect.

You heard wrong, he hated the customers. Only thing he ever loved was racing.

Yep. He used the road car business to go racing.

Cessna (Textron Aviation) still uses those.

Thanks, I didn't know that car. A really phenomenal redesign and I'd never guess it was originally a Viper. So many unusual design queues yet done so professionally: the huge windows in the bonnet, the high tail with a rear window you can't really see through then a tail window... really tall behind the driver, the front end looks like it could be a regular production Alfa and yet still challenging

He said it’s aftermarket exhaust.

@@graemediesel2936 the headers or whatever I can't remember what he said

He has a RU-vid channel if you want to keep up with his work.

@@andrewesau51 already a fan.

Why he does not use German spelling for the name? Like Kristofer or something.

@@tatianaes3354 because he's from Minnesota.

@@andrewesau51 exactly, and i say that as a german. A man's name is his name. Spell it and say it the way you see fit.

Laura San Giacomo 👌😵‍💫

@johnnygeorgopoulos4072 Yep, back on the day she was a hottie. Kind of like Cameron Diaz around Something about Mary days.

I think you mean 60s. The 70s were starting to do wedge shapes in Europe, and ugly bricks in America. The 60s had the curvy European cars. All the cars you named were 60s.

@@user-tc7fp1nu6t -- He probably meant a kid in the 70's because if you're born in the 60's, then you're a kid interested in cars in the 70's

same here. Can't wait for each and every new project.

If you build it you can fix it.

@@garycamara9955 I'm confused: he's going to live forever? That's... quite a talent. And I'm sure you can absolutely hand build an identical panel a decade into the future. Absolutely.

@@garycamara9955 If it bleeds, we can kill it

@@tim3172 Well, if you can afford one of these types of builds, then you can afford to have it's dimensions digitally scanned (hopefully by someone that knows what they are doing, unlike the guy Chris used), so that once Chris dies you can send the dimensions of the panel that gets damaged to another metal worker that does what he does, and they can make another one. Is it going to be expensive? Sure, but the car is easily 6 figures in the first place, so while that would be expensive, it's not impossible. Also, 3D printing is coming along very well, so while it may not be with the same material, you could probably print something that is at least the right dimensions in the future for much cheaper than it would cost to get something handmade. I can't imagine repairs for this would be any more crazy than the cost of repairs on any of the million $ + hyper cars, and Chris even said he has an 18 year old son that he is teaching the craft to that will be taking over eventually. His son even helped build parts of this car, and I doubt the owner will outlive the 18 year old that helped make this car.

He probably provides surprisingly reasonable replacement panels, for being hand formed on an English Wheel, if a car gets damage.

It doesnt look italian, it looks like a Shelby, it very much looks american.

@@Ardonn 60s Italian.

@@Ardonn at first I thought it was a Shelby. Or someone's spin on a Shelby. 😂

Reminds one of Christian von Koenigsegg, doesn't it? I hope he's that good.

You drove an electric V-10? "The ten cylinder motor forced me........." ALL Vipers had V-10 engines, that run/ran, on gasoline...??

They didn’t even talk about the ‘hard’ stuff like windlace and glass. And I wonder about aerodynamics with the boat tail motif.

I wouldn’t say unbelievable because people have been doing this for over a century

@@paulchedzey7276 i'm sure you are fun at parties. It was just an expression of appreciation for what he does

​@@fishhuntadventureI love the boat tail motiff

This interesting hand-made car is not bad looking absoultely awesome but kind of mixing many different things from different brands.. so ok, he started on the Viper underneath but body style: Front Ferrari 1956 -410 Sport prototype, the side Alfa Romeo TZ specially those side triangular mesh vents and the rear it reminds me of Daytona Cobra.. not bad at all but to be really honest driver (the person behind the wheel of this thing) really need to drive it carefully not to smash it since is a one-ff build.. specially in US with so many road-rage, not care, driving on red, not give way at stop.. etc i would be really stressed out & nervous on this one..

@@poplaurentiu4148 Jay knows how to drive ..

@@stillnotwoke No doubt but still a one-off is a one-off..

Yes.

Yes for sure

The shape is bland . No tension

You have know what alloy you have and what it's heat treat is. If it's annealed for shaping, it's soft/if it's forged or tempered/hardened it's hard. Soft cast metals or shaped sheet aluminum you stop sooner, finer grits will remove the peaks off the valleys and nothing will fold over and fill in polishing.

His son built the other side of the car, under his guidance. Imagine how good his son will be under such tutelage! What a fortunate young man.

Ditto

I have to agree. Anything only 2 doors already has a head start. I'm about ready to start a protest on why car makers take perfectly great cars and ruin them with back seats and extra doors wasted mass to lug around.

Looks better cause it dont meet any safety standards

@@Greg-io1ipyessir, my sentiments exactly!

@@1DEADBEEF1good point! Never mind that saying it looks better than ‘most any factory car isn’t that much of a complement lol

@fishhuntadventure when you have go design a car to meet frontal hit, offset frontal, t-bone on both side, rear end, rear end offset, rollover, pedestrian hit, driver and passenger safety inside the cabin etc you really cant go vintage on a design.... thats why new camaros look nothing like first gens

Personally, I cringe at those welds still left. I'm a perfectionist and seeing this car (although beautiful) roll trough the light at the Jays shop just shows how much imperfections, dents etc there actually are. I like Chris and his work, but he has so much to learn. 5k hours also seems ridiculous.

@@flamedude90Wow at least you have realistic expectations for things in life. If you're such a perfectionist I would expect your grammar to be perfect with zero errors. Maybe not such a perfectionist after all 🙄

I see Ferrari and Mercedes gt

So… Flat instead of dimpled?

Think of the Viper as the caterpillar that went through a metamorphosis that resulted in this beautiful butterfly. Or, a Viper that shed its skin to reveal its new body. Such a great car got even better!