The last time that I heard of an all-aluminum body car that was crafted by a Filipino was a Toyota Corona RT140 chassis on a Nissan SR20DE engine competing in a drift event.
This video was taken way back in 2009 in drift-event; video was taken by my friend.
This 2011, another car was transformed its body to all-aluminum state; that car was an iconic and a beast, a 1965 Ford Mustang GT-500 model. This car is owned by a known journalist here in the Philippines. This is his project-car.
History of this car was; the owner got this car on a pig-pen, in a bad-body situation — I mean the car was already decapitated with rust and the only the resolution is for pattern purposes to the material that they going to used to the body. Challenged because someone told him that Filipino's cannot do it; so, he pursue to transform this heavy beast into a lightweight form .
One thing that I'm dissapointed is the engine; they used an RB series engine which is found on Nissan Skyline models — at least they've used a used V8 engines from previous models of Mustang. Maybe the owner is following the foostep of the Mustang in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie. But still, it is all-aluminum body Mustang which is very rare.
Hope I can see rare modification in the future though.
