News; Puma Builds Race Car Out of Clothes

"Race car driving" and "fashion" don't puma shoes usually belong in the same sentence... unless that sentence also includes the words "mullet" and "cut-offs."

But that hasn't stopped Puma, armed with some ingenuity and ï¿¡40,000 worth of clothes, from constructing a race car replica made from 1,682 T-shirts, 88 pairs of jeans, 64 pairs of shoes and 31 belts, The Telegraph reports.

According to the paper, it took eight employees five hours to painstakingly build the 14-foot car modeled after Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen's race car, following a week of sketches and experimentation.

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