A young man's $10,000 novel cardboard idea

David Jones is an ideas man.

The 22-year-old is a keen snowboarder, skateboarder and surfer and has accumulated a large following on his YouTube channel.

David also loves Lamborghinis and while he doesn't think he'll ever be able to afford one he has found a novel way to fulfil the dream of owning one.

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He made his own out of cardboard. Yes cardboard!

Over two weeks David and his mate Shaun took templates for small scale paper models and projected them onto a wall to create life-size versions.

Using hundreds of cardboard boxes, box cutters and a glue gun to build the world's first "Cardboardghini".

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David and his mates filmed the whole project for his YouTube channel and more than 500,000 people followed it every step of the way.

"The original plan was just to make the body, like the cardboard part, but then when I made the cardboard halfway through the process, I thought this would be pretty cool if I made it move and I knew all the comments I'm going to get on the video would be make it move. So rather than getting the comments I thought let's make it move," David explained.

So he and his mates made a frame, fitted with wheels, steering and braking systems and took the "Cardboardghini" for a test drive down a hill.

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"I went and took it down a test hill and it was super sketchy like it wobbled all over the place," he said.

"The original plan was to take it down a big hill but after the first test run I don't think that would have been a good idea."

David had another problem.  

His cardboard Lamborghini was taking up too much room in his dad's garage and it had to go.

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"I was just going to destroy it and throw it away and then I thought maybe I could sell it and make some money for a charity."

So David developed an online marketing campaign to see what he could get.

"I thought maybe $50. Maybe."

"But then it went to $200 in the first hour and then by the end of the day it was at $2000 and then I woke up the next morning and it was over $10,000."

A buyer who wanted it as a centrepiece for a new man cave had bought the "Cardboardghini" for $10,420 which David is donating to a local Children's Hospital.

"I spent more than a year in the hospital when I was 14 and had a tumour in my chest," David said.

"All the doctors and nurses were so wonderful and helped me get through it so it was an easy choice about who to give the money to."

Now David is dreaming up the next big project in between making videos of snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing.

"It's got to be bigger and better and yes it might involve cardboard."

"I definitely have some plans which I can't discuss because they're top secret."