mustang1989

That's a good lookin' color combo James.

Over the top Dave!

Wahooo! On the home stretch!

You see, those were my thoughts when I decided to graph in the wheel wells. Hopefully I'm through with all the cuttin' so I can start buildin'................no............wait...........I've still gotta cut the rear flooring between the rear wheel tubs in order to widen them. Arrrrgh!!! It's all good though. I like these custom builds because they tend to tell me where to go with the build. lol Thanks Carl. Glad to have you on board.

Man this thing is just KILLER!!!

It's a feeling that's all too familiar. lol Thanks Jeremy. I've got the R/H side graphed in. I still have to do some body work and trimming but it's in there. I've got it mocked up here with my spun aluminum Weld Draglites. I may have to order a 5 lug version with a deeper offset in the back for that deep dish effect. Although initially not trued up , I'll get it all ironed out in the body work process. Yeah...............this look suits me a whole lot better!

Hope you're not sold out cuz I'll take one too! Nice progress.

That interior and engine work is looking sharp Jeremy!! Flat out spankin' it here!

Gaaaaah!!! You'd be crazy to quit now.

Thanks James, Richard and Dave. I've given thought to that Dave. I'll see how it all pans out and I'll make a decision from there. And this was going to be a lightly modified OOB build................whatever!!! lol

Will be looking forward to seeing you in here with this Ray. Ok....the details. I picked this kit up a couple of weeks ago because it was IMO just too dang cool. This one will be a sideline build when I either get stumped on or waiting for paint to dry for my current aircraft project, in which right now I'm waiting on paint to dry and trying to figure out some fit issues with it so I figured I'd start this thread. I'm not going to get as crazy as I did with my '54 Chevy just because I don't want something that in depth. But I do want to have some fun with this one so here goes. Der Beetle Bus: Now when I opened up the box I looked at the body and knew right away that this body was not going to fly at all. The wheel base is ridiculously short for my tastes and it would look more like a cartoon van than an actual vehicle. Here's where we start: and I just couldn't leave it like that so I bought another kit and went to work: Cutting the bodies at just the right points yielded a wheel base that I could live with Top view of the difference it made: and the side view : and so it starts. Here's the set up I want to go with. Slicks and skinnies with my favorite kind of wheels. The ol' Weld Draglites: This..................is more like it. Body work and smoothing things out will commence shortly. I have to lengthen the roof and the chassis to follow suit with the body so stay tuned..............

Man that's clean! Good lookin' Torino Ludwig.

You'll learn a lot here John. Just build, post progress photos in WIP's and watch. Welcome aboard.

Posted by mustang1989 on Friday, September 30, 2016 4:37 PM I'm going to try something out here. I was brain storming for a different look than the vehicle being "jacked up" in the back. I want more of a lowered looking stance so I've got this spare '54 Chevy Panel Wagon body and decided to check something out. What if I cut the rear wheel opening out like so, and then trimmed the bottom up so that it evened out at the body line on both sides of the wheel opening. I think I might be able to flatten this out a bit to get away from the body curvature, thin it out some to where everything is flush on both sides and graph this in because l like the way this is lookin' so far.

Jeremy: Go for it! James: I noticed that. At first I didn't like 'em at all and then somewhere along the line they grew on me and then I got an idea. The rest is in the WIP. lol Dave: Thank you sir. I would but there's so many dang windows and then the opening in the top. Believe me..........it's gonna be seen.

Man I hate it when that happens! Hang in there Dave.

I like it Jim! The dual quad small block looks pretty dang cool!

Ok...........................throw my hat in the ring for this build. I kept seeing all the hype about a community build for the bus. So I figured why not? I'll be making an XL out of mine by stretching it and coming up with a freeky powerplant.

This outta be interesting to watch unfold. Good work so far. I saw that you're going OOB with this one?

Good Lord! This thing is just mind blowing Dave!! Lovin' the creativeness put into this build from the overall set up to the details all the way down to the paint work. While I definitely can understand (as well as relate to ) being disgusted with a build I encourage you to take a step back and regroup. The kind of mind that it takes to come up with off the charts ideas like this is also able to think through difficulties like you're having. I've got no doubts about you getting through it.

Let's try that again

Don't know what happened with that last post....................weird..

Thanks Anthony. I don't know about the J2000 getting released again but I know that the engine that's in the J2000 kit will be in the re-release of the 1988 Beretta Pro Street kit coming in November. It'll be short on turbo chargers though from what I understand.

Thanks Justin. Steve: I know right??! On ebay these things go anywhere from $55 to $120!!!!!!!

SNAGGED IT!!! $22.00 off of ebay!! Looks like we're movin' forward with that engine build!!!! .