The homeless man who built a car out of scrap

The homeless man who built a car out of scrap

Orismar de Souza, 35, of São José de Piranha, Brazil, built a functional car out of junk. He actually shaped the body himself out of sheet metal using a hammer and chisel. The 125cc engine is from a motorcycle, and the other parts were gathered from junkyards in his area. After four years of work, off and on, he was successful. “Nobody believed, everybody laughed at me,” Souza told Globo.com. “I was very humbled by this, but I found and I built my car alone with my own hands.”

A few months later, Souza was able to replace the motorcycle engine's kick starter with a car ignition, and add in a gearbox with reverse. The mostly Fiat shrimpmobile can reach 50 mph on the highway, and Souza has been able to use it to find a home and a job in the local sugarcane fields.