Approach

I decided to stick with easily accessible and modifiable materials to create this physical representation. This meant cutting cardboard boxes from packages that I received in my time at CMU, as well as chopping a drinking straw that I got from dinner last night. I used rather temporary means of fixing the structure of the garage together to keep cost down. Staples were used to reinforce the cardboard posts that would hold the top, and glue was used to fix the posts to the base. Finally, the drinking straw was cut into small segments and arranged in two banks of 5 cylinders to represent both the 10-cylinders in the engine block, as well as the exhaust headers that poked out of the top or sides of the engine (depending on the engine design). This arrangement was set up slightly towards the back of the makeshift garage to represent a distant reverberation found in the original sound (it was presumably recorded in a garage).