"I just snap your fingers and open the car door. Or am I just thinking about opening the car door, and doors that open immediately," says the 51-year-old, while proudly showing rakitannya car, named Angkor 333-2010 .
The people who saw him hold his breath when he showed the practice. Phaloek have to spend 5000 dollars and take 19 months to create a vehicle fiber-glass. However Phaloek really do not want to reveal a remote control system through his actions, according to French news agency, AFP.
Only a few of Cambodians who make their own cars, but Phaloek bermimpin car with two seats, which will help forge the automotive industry in the country, who remain poor after decades of conflict.
"I am very excited and proud with this car because a lot of people admire me and kept asking me about how I can make it," he said. He added that the car can reach speeds of up to more than 100 kilometers per hour.
Pharith Kong, a former teacher of physics and mathematics 48 years old and also have made their own cars, said the automotive industry will blossom in Cambodia.
"Our work will be part of the driving force for future generations to enter new findings and show the world that Cambodia has the ability to do what you do not think we can do," he said.
Discoverer, who first drew national attention in 2005 for making sun-powered bicycle, believed he now actually has a truly unique result, jeep-like vehicle with the orange color and has solar panels on their roofs.
Meanwhile Pharith Kong said he took four months to draft and give final touches to the car "tribrid" her, which operates by using solar energy, electricity and gasoline, which can reach speeds of 40 miles per hour with a 2000 watt machine.
"I'm really happy with my performance, but not satisfied," said Pharith. He added that shortage of materials and modern technology in Cambodia is a major barrier to adequate production.
The dream to build cars in Cambodia may not be much longer to materialize. Officials have announced firm plans South Korean automaker, Hyundai, will open a factory in southwestern Cambodia, so as to assemble as many as 3000 vehicles per year.
Cambodia is already assembling cars in a factory during the 1960s, before the country fell in the arena of the Vietnam War.
During a short production period, the car known as the "Angkor" is made from imported parts and tires made in the country.
Vehicle which is basically built in Cambodia is also still used in rural areas, home to as many as 80 percent of 14 million people in the country.
The farmers often depend on the "cow robots", a big truck with a flatbed made using a machine shop with China or Vietnam, which used to carry people and rice.
Machine, which is usually worth two thousand U.S. dollars, also functions as a generator or water pump when the object is not in the long country road and potholes.
But in Phnom Penh, the elite and middle class people are often seen driving a car imports, which is seen as a symbol of prestige and status.
"(People Cambodia) to give more attention to their cars than the clothes they buy," said Jean Boris Roux - Ford vehicles imported into Cambodia as Asia manager RM in the country.
"I think it is very important for the Cambodian people to demonstrate success in their professional lives through their vehicle kemudikan," he said.
Although the Cambodian people love the car, Roux and several other analysts said the domestic industry that will undoubtedly appear soon - especially since the neighbors, Thailand, remains a giant in the Asian automotive assembly.
"It's not just having four walls (for one plant). You need hundreds of companies that supply seats, steering wheel, roof ... It's not going to happen in Cambodia for many years," said Roux.
Until then, Nhean Phaloek said he continues to make cars.
333-2010 Angkor is the third car that he had made, and the first to speak. When he slammed, there was a groan in the dashboard, "Why did you shut me so hard?"
"Dozens of local and foreign visitors had arrived and saw my car," he said, smiling Nhean Phaloek. "A British man told me that it was the car of his James Bond Cambodia ."(AntaraNews)
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