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It"s as if an NSX, a Formula One car and a Falcon F7 hooked up in a Las Vegas hotel room, and then nine-months later: Oh, baby! This savagely sexy hill-climbing monster is known as the "Enviate," and it was born in Cody Loveland"s garage.Loveland is the owner, founder and lead fabricator of Lovefab, Inc., and together with his team and sponsors, he has strived to fulfill a pipedream that he and a late friend once shared over beers: setting record times at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) by building a racecar designed specifically for climbing 14,115-feet into the Rocky Mountain"s highest summit.The car, once Loveland"s daily driver "91 Acura NSX, has been through an intense, fiery history to become the super-aero Batmobile hopped up on steroids that it is today. It has crashed on Pike"s Peak twice: a minor but debilitating wreck in 2012, and then in 2013, when it was recreated as the Enviate, it veered into a wall of boulders and trees at 80-plus-mph. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but just as Loveland escaped the vehicle, it was engulfed in flames. It burned for three minutes while he helplessly watched the heartbreaking scene.
Date written: October 20, 2016
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ID: 5505
It"s as if an NSX, a Formula One car and a Falcon F7 hooked up in a Las Vegas hotel room, and then nine-months later: Oh, baby! This savagely sexy hill-climbing monster is known as the "Enviate," and it was born in Cody Loveland"s garage.Loveland is the owner, founder and lead fabricator of Lovefab, Inc., and together with his team and sponsors, he has strived to fulfill a pipedream that he and a late friend once shared over beers: setting record times at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) by building a racecar designed specifically for climbing 14,115-feet into the Rocky Mountain"s highest summit.The car, once Loveland"s daily driver "91 Acura NSX, has been through an intense, fiery history to become the super-aero Batmobile hopped up on steroids that it is today. It has crashed on Pike"s Peak twice: a minor but debilitating wreck in 2012, and then in 2013, when it was recreated as the Enviate, it veered into a wall of boulders and trees at 80-plus-mph. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but just as Loveland escaped the vehicle, it was engulfed in flames. It burned for three minutes while he helplessly watched the heartbreaking scene.
Date written: October 20, 2016
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 5505