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Zhao Xiuguo drives a homemade vehicle he claims is modelled after a Formula One car in Tangshan, Hebei Province. Zhao and his elder brother Zhao Xiushun built the car from scrap metal and said that they wanted to design and build China's first Formula One race car. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Zhao Xiushun checks a homemade vehicle he claims is modelled after a Formula One car in Tangshan, Hebei Province. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Brothers Zhao Xiushun (L) and Zhao Xiuguo check their homemade model of Formula One car outside their house in Tangshan, Hebei Province, some 180km east of Beijing. (Reuters/Claro Cortes)
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Zhang Jinduo's wife tries on a self-made racing car on the outskirts of Shenyang, Liaoning province. Zhang, the 53-year-old local farmer made the racing car with the help of his son who is a car mechanic. The car is equipped with a rear-mounted motorcycle engine and can achieve 60-80 km per hour, according to local media. (Reuters/Stringer)
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Zhang Jinduo sits in his self-made racing car at a warehouse on the outskirts of Shenyang, Liaoning province. (Reuters/Stringer)
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A friend of Zhang Jinduo's son, drives a self-made racing car on the outskirts of Shenyang, Liaoning province. (Reuters/Stringer)
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A friend of Wang Jian sits in a self-made replica of a Lamborghini Reventon in Suqian, Jiangsu province. Wang, a young Chinese farmer who worked at a garage for more than a decade, built the replica of a Lamborghini Reventon with a second-hand Nissan and Santana. (Reuters/Xihao)
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Wang Jian and his wife sit in a self-made replica of Lamborghini Reventon, in Suqian, Jiangsu province. (Reuters/Xihao)
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People look at a self-made replica of a Lamborghini Reventon as they drive past it in Suqian, Jiangsu province (Reuters/Xihao)
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A man inspects car mechanic Ruslan Mukanov's homemade replica of the Rolls-Royce Phantom in Shakhtinsk town, about 200 km south of the capital Astana. (Reuters/Valery Kaliev)
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Ruslan Mukanov, a 24-year-old car mechanic, refuels his homemade replica of a Rolls-Royce Phantom in the town of Shakhtinsk, some 200 km south of the capital Astana. (Reuters/Valery Kaliev)
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