‘Malaysia in their blood’: Dutch twins create lookalike Proton Wira taxi to race on iconic German circuit (VIDEO)
“We lived in Malaysia for seven years. Two different spells in total, one from 1997 to 2001 and then again from 2009 to 2011,” said Jochem.
Jochem added that they began “Project Proton”, which was Ruben’s brainchild, on July 5 2019, after purchasing an original Wira 1.3 GL when they found out that Wira’s were available in Germany. “It took us about a year to finish the car and we were keeping ourselves busy with the project during the Covid-19 pandemic. When we first bought the car, it was broken. The engine barely ran and we tried to fix it, but it didn’t work,” said Ruben.
“The colours are correct with the Malaysian taxis now. And we have already found an original taxi meter with the help of a friend in Penang, so we’re going to install that next.” “We’ve done about eight laps so far on the track. So that’s about 160 kilometres of racing already and the car did really well,” said Ruben.
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