That is an interesting piece of work!

reminds me of some of Spernicellis builds, like this Gira:



or this Alan:



nothing for purists though, he he


(I'm sure the Spernicellis are "on a budget" too, the diference most likely will be its size)

btw, theres a german company, "Weltrad", who offers a "halfracer":

http://www.weltrad.de/index.php?cat=halbrenner&