21-year-old man builds ‘sports car’ using waste materials from dustbins

Nigerian man Chikamso builds ‘sports car’ using waste materials from dustbins

A 21-year-old Nigerian man, Amalu Chikamso, without a university education has built a sports car running on an automatic engine

The brilliant man said people thought he was insane when he was going from one dustbin to another to search for waste materials for the vehicle.

Chikamso revealed that he would like to get an education and know more about engineering systems

A young man who became popular online after building a sports car prototype has said that many people thought he was mad.

In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Amalu Chikamso said when he was building his first prototype, he was always going from one dump to another searching for materials. That made people question his sanity.

I was searching dustbins

The man said he knows almost all the dustbins in Enugu state as he scoured them for scraps from morning till evening.

The 21-year-old stated that he has been dreaming of building his first car since he was a child playing with plastics to make toy cars.

Chikamso added that whenever he was going to school, he would branch at a dumpsite to pick materials for his creation, adding that he never got any support.

The first engine knocked

As he grew older, he began dreaming of building something real. In 2013, he built a helicopter prototype.

When he first built his car, he placed a manual Gulf vehicle engine in it which later knocked. He could not replace it because there was no money.

I still want to go to school

Using 10 months to build the car, the young man stated that he was almost frustrated and wanted to discontinue the whole process.

He said he is still interested in going to school not to get a certificate but get more knowledge in mechanical engineering.