This is the slowest Pagani Zonda in the world. It’s also one of the most interesting. Instead of carbon fiber, Inconel, and aluminum, it’s made from brass and steel. The Zonda art car is made entirely from coins. It even gets its name, Carpincho, from the Uruguayan coins that were used. The Pagani Zonda Carpincho was revealed at Art Basel in Miami, and it is heading from there to the collection of one of the biggest fans of the Pagani brand in the world.

A Full-Sized Zonda Made Of Coins

First off, don’t worry. No real Zonda was sacrificed to create this work of art. The framework was made from wood, foam, and clay.

Now that that’s out of the way, check out this amazing Zonda replica. More than 100,000 coins were used to create the bodywork. Most of those are $2 coins from Uruguay. On the back of those coins is a carpincho, the Spanish word for capybara. Yes, the large rodent. It’s native to South America.

Artist Joaquin Arbiza created the car. The Uruguayan sculptor works with metal and is no stranger to automotive works of art. Even his animals, though, lean into the mechanical with gears, wrenches, clutches, and other parts going into a boar statue created for the President of Uruguay.

Arbiza spent three years working on this project. All of the coins are soldered together, with more than 500,000 total solder points around the vehicle. The coins replicate the lines and features of the original Pagani Zonda supercar. The car even weighs the same as the original, around 2,800 pounds. Not counting the extensive labor, it’s a lot cheaper than the real thing, though. 100,000 $2 Uruguay pesos is about $4,500 American.

Car Showcases Owner’s Argentine Pride

Entrepreneur and car collector Jorge Gomez commissioned the car. Gomez has Argentine roots, and those roots and his love of football are the inspiration for the face of football icon Lionel Messi on the front of the car. Gomez, Messi, and Horacio Pagani are all Argentinian.

Gomez is a serious car collector and an even bigger fan of Pagani. This isn’t his first art car, and his home near Buenos Aires has a statue of a hand rising out of the ground to sketch a Zonda on the wall. The hand was created from the remains of Horacio’s own first car, a 1981 Toyota Corolla.

Gomez has owned Pagani’s own C12, which he bought from Pagani directly on layaway. His Instagram account shows off his Utopia and Huayara, and plenty of other amazing rides. The Carpincho will be on display at Pagani of Miami after the Art Week display, so if you’re in the area, you can actually check out this work of art.

​​​​​​​