Ken Imhoff said he fell in love with the car after watching the movie "Cannonball Run" and decided to build his own replica from scratch -- a project that took him 10 years to complete, The Sun reported Tuesday.

However, Imhoff said he was faced with a new problem once his long project was at an end -- getting the car out of his basement and onto the road, the British newspaper said.

Imhoff said he built a ramp and then hired an excavator to remove a section of the property's foundation and dig a slope in the garden.

"I was like an expectant father watching it come through the wall. I was literally shaking," Imhoff said of the process of removing the car. "As the last blanket and car cover were removed I knew at that moment I had accomplished what I had dreamed about so many years ago and to see it sitting there in front of me was surreal."