{"id":4908,"date":"2026-03-30T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.drivefacts.com\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:35:24","slug":"one-man-singlehandedly-created-the-finest-supercar-just-to-help-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/one-man-singlehandedly-created-the-finest-supercar-just-to-help-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"One man singlehandedly created the finest supercar just to help his son"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Supercars are for the rich and arrogant, usually. Yet the latest story and supercar we heard about is one that will make you smile. Graham Slater is a cabinet maker by trade but recently created one of the finest supercars we have ever seen for all the right reasons.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Graham Slater started out with a 2003 Jaguar XKR as a donor car. From there through many hours of work, many technical tweaks, 54 cans of PU Foam and six layers of GFRP fiberglass a new car was born.<strong> Modeled on the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, the Lincoln Zephyer and a number of Porsches, Slater created a car that is reminiscent of supercars from the 1930s.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Slater calls his creation the Streetmachine. It still has the standard 4.3 Jaguar Liter V8 engine and reaches top speeds of 250 km\/h. <strong>Slater estimates that the parts, time spent and all other expenses meant that he has invested 70,000 Euro into the car<\/strong>. For most men in this line of hobby, the return is simply being able to drive around such a wonderful beast. For Slater, though he needed to turn it into profit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Graham Slater\u2019s son has down syndrome and Slater says he needed to make money to be able to provide his son a decent standard of life.<strong> The good news is that Slater has already found a buyer. He has agreed to sell the sportscar for an amazing 143,000 Euro.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It is remarkable to think that one man who is not enough a professional car tuner could turn a standard Jaguar XKR into a 143,000 Euro supercar. The design alone would require someone with in-depth knowledge of car design and history. Add in the fact that this design required an amazing level of tuning skills and you start to look at Graham Slater as a man in the wrong profession. <strong>While we have not yet seen any of his cabinets, however good they look, he belongs in the car industry.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>His reasons for altering the car though were incredible. While often supercars are associate with pompous arrogance and men who are overcompensating for a very small\u2026 brain. This man is very different he took on the passion piece for himself and his son who was born with down syndrome. A beautiful idea that will provide the much-needed funds to ensure that Slater\u2019s son can have a good start to life and without a doubt a few happy memories for Graham as well in always being able to fondly remember the creation he made. We hope he finds the time for another creation soon.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supercars are for the rich and arrogant, usually. Yet the latest story and supercar we heard about is one that will make you smile. Graham Slater is a cabinet maker by trade but recently created one of the finest supercars we have ever seen for all the right reasons.\u00a0 Graham Slater started out with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drive-facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}