PatW
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Super build I was trying to find one here in the UK to add to my aircooled car collection.
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Superb work so far. The artists impression looks like the Japanese sports car series.
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Yes the battery was in the boot and we had twin fuel tanks, one each side of the boot on the circuit racers and on the rally versions.
My elder brother bought a new mini van in 1963, it just had a strong thin sheet of hardboard over the spare wheel painted the same colour as the body.
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Here's just one pic of a resin plaster sidepod, I hope to start casting in resin soon, Manx bodies 2 and 4 seaters, the 2 seater first then cut it and add a centre section and cast that.
Yes the plumbing of the turbo set up took a few weeks. Bending the plastic rod by candle, using 90degree corners from sprue mouldings and slotting the alloy tube over the top.
I'd seen the engine, or something like it on the back of Volksworld magazine here in the UK, so I thought I'd have a go!
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Hey I've just come across this thread and yes I would certainly like to see and hopefully buy a few sets of parts. I have built a turbo Type 1 into an AMT Manx using various scratchbuilt bits of my own in both plastic and alloy. I'm also looking at initially resin casting Manx bodies both in two and four seater versions. I already test casted seats, surfboards and buggy sidepods but in resin plaster just to get the experience of casting, but the engines here are very intertesting.
My one problem is that I am in the UK and shipping costs are the one thing that nearly kills all thoughts of buying from the US, as sometimes we get caught for customs & excise(import) duty. So we buy an item plus $27 shipping and £12 duty , then we pay nearly 3 times the value of the purchase!
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Meyers Manx 4X4...
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Did anyone take any photo's please?
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Thanks for the pics showbuilder. It's good to see what's going on in the USA model show scene from here in the UK.
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Thanks Felix.
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Thanks Jonathan, yes a fare share of grime and a tyre rub when another racer got just a bit too close!
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Thanks Glenn.
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Thanks Dominik, well I have been to Le Mans a couple of times so I know how the cars look at the end of the race!
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Thanks guys, yes there were a few of these racing at Silverstone circuit about 5 miles from here over the weekend. But I'm glad to say the weather was very good, the best meeting there this year, it overtakes F1 in spades (quality in this case) and very nice old money owners that have had and raced the same car since new. And that goes for nearly every other car there starting with cars from 1920's or even earlier!
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Thanks Jeremy. I'm normally very fussy about the paintwork, but the side panels were so poor fitting that I had no choice but to paint it in post race trim to hide the joins.
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I've not seen one, but I wish they would make one, OR supply a mould and I could cast one!
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Thanks Jason, now I'd like a real one of those!
I think your right with the design of the Gran Turismo, they tried to copy the SR2 but got it pretty well wrong.
I've just Googled Images of the SR2 and it looks good with the lift up doors and with Centreline rims!
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Very nice build as a Beetle lover both as a daily driver of five a few years back and in models, the engine also stands out as a work of art getting it all in.
I also like the trailer hitch/tow bar as we used to have a sea blue Beetle (70's). We tried a roof rack first for all of our holiday kit driving up our A5 road to North Wales, which seemed to be the solution to our lack of interior space. But................on the return journey we wanted to call into a town to get food for home and the only place we could find to park was a multi-storey car park. I'd forgot about the roof rack and the height limit foiled me and the concrete overhang caught the rack and knocked it off it's legs and dented the roof!
I then invested in a towbar which are so easy to fit and hiring a small alloy trailer from then on, a far better choice, although reversing into a space could be a slight chore at times!
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Superb looking Beetle! I also had fit problem when putting wheels like this on a Beetle some years ago. I cut the rear wings off and added a narrow strip of plasticard onto the body and re-attached the wings, plus a little filler. The car sat lower still after that!
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Thanks guys, yes a strange shape I must admit. It always bothers me when you only get a rear view of a model on the boxart. I thought well damnit all. I bought it from the USA so it cost a bit, with shipping etc. But it solved my suspicions as such, that I possibly wouldn't have known without buying it,But...............I searched its images on google just a few days ago and there's quite a few on there!
I just love building cars with aircooled motors, I'm now doing a Matchbox Porsche 356 Speedster which should be on here by the middle of next week.
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Cheers slusher
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I haven't decided yet Lee. But I am thinking about a twin engined Corvair set up.
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Thanks guys yes it shares most of the kit parts with those you mention Jason, so you get the front and rear nerf bars, extra steering wheel, Corvair motor and roll over bar.
Yes Maxicoop the good old Plasti-Kote rattle cans ride again. The colour and finish came out well with a few coats of Plasti-Kote gloss clear and some AutoGlym Resin Car polish on top!
Bob your right again strange shape quite high up. you would have thought that with that shape it would be more of a sports car and be lowered, but no, the beach/dune buggy theme is still there. But if your mixing a lot of the same parts from the Manx/Gypsy and Imp kits it would be the same height.
It says in the intro on the instructions that this was like the others an actual kit car of a similar era, but on internet searching no vehicle of this name or shape appears at all!
I added my exhaust tip as the pipe shown on the box is not offered in the kit, but thinking back I could have made one from the artwork!
Also I remember an exhaust like that when I was looking for a performance set up on my own road going Beetle in the mid-70's but I chose one with the four tubes into a collector and a quiet pack muffler, like the one below...
I'm now starting on a Matchbox Porsche 356 racer kit.
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To continue with my aircooled engined builds, I've just finished this kit. Similar to the Meyers Manx kits I build this has no roof on the beach buggy theme
The kit is moulded in blue (I have rattle can sprayed the shell with Plasti-Kote Metallic Blue) plus a sprue of clear and another of chrome. The kit comes with two engines, the VW 1800cc and the Chevy Corvair, so being a Beetle fan I have built the VW engine although it is not particularly well made and has little detail............
It was easy kit to build although the body comes in six parts and the only slightly difficult area is having the attached the bottom of the door sills when the top half is on the chassis........
I have added my signature tailpipe by using small plastic pipe with a slash cut piece of alloy tube fitted over it see third photo down.
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Brilliant combo! Right subjects, right glossy colour and a mountain bike!