This is one of the wildest builds we’ve ever seen, and it is definitely the most absurd Ferrari ever created. Gas Monkey Garage has declared that a four-wheel Ferrari simply isn’t enough and has built what it calls the F6. Could it be a six-wheel Purosangue?
Nope. It’s the iconic Ferrari Testarossa, complete with those oh-so-1980s side strakes and six full-size wheels. And it’s all stuffed into a stretched body to make everything fit. Let’s take a closer look.
This Might Be The Wildest Gas Monkey Build Ever
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Richard Rawlins and his Gas Monkey Garage crew have built some incredible machines, but this one takes the cake. Or the cold Miller Lites that Rawlins and John Clay Wolfe are sipping in the video that shows off the finished F6 project.
It’s not the company’s first Ferrari. The shop once rebuilt a Ferrari F40 and converted another Testarossa to fully electric. This one has no electric power at all, though. It gets 1,200 horsepower, though you won’t find a big flat-12 engine behind the driver. You won’t even find a Ferrari engine. It’s a supercharged Chevy LT4 V8, built by Katech to make those huge power levels.
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The car has been stretched by more than three feet to fit the extra axle and set of wheels. The transaxle comes from an Audi A5 – Audi’s longitudinal engines with front-drive is nearly the same design flipped around – and both of the rear axles are driven so it can do burnouts with all four rear tires.
It has QA1 independent suspension at all six wheels, and new big brakes on all six as well. Rawlins says it can be a daily driver if you want it to be, and that the air conditioning works even in Texas. We’ll take his word on this being a daily. You could daily a school bus too, if you really wanted.
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The six wheels were custom-made for the car. They look like vintage Ferrari wheels, the kind you might find on an original Testarossa or an F40, but they’re 20s instead of the factory 15s. They’re shod with 315/35 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires instead of the TRX metric tires the car would have worn from new.
This Insane Build Started With Lots Of Steps Backward
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One of Gas Monkey’s first steps in this build was to make the car shorter and narrower. It had started as a collaboration with another shop, but as the team describes in the reveal video, the car that was delivered was not what it was supposed to be. That was just the start of the issues.
The entire build process is up on the Gas Monkey YouTube Channel. There, you can watch parts of the year-long process to fix the original build and turn it into this beast.
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We can’t tell if there’s anything left of the car that originally came from Modena. Other than the VIN, at least, because Rawlins said it was still a real Ferrari that way. The Italian company’s notorious legal team might have something to say about that, but that’s a future problem.
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The F6 is making its debut this weekend at what might be the perfect venue. It will be running the Texas stages of this year’s Gumball 3000 Rally, an event Rawlins has won twice. He’ll have a host of celebs along for the ride, and the car will be on display to everyone in downtown Austin on Saturday night.
Here’s hoping Hennessey doesn’t catch wind of this. The world doesn’t need a 6×6 Corvette.
