mustang1989

I'm diggin' this.............

Thanks Dan and Jeremy. Ok. That extra long rectangular opening in the floor is gonna mandate an engine that'll fill it. Don't think I haven't "been there" in thought. I'll be turning to Rick Dobbertin's blown, turbo'd and nitrous fed small block 350 for this using the Revell Pro Street J2000 kit. Now I just need to get one: The engine looks somthing like this:

Nice job on all the conversion so far.

I can only go along with what's already been said because I sure as hell can't think of a word strong enough to describe what I see happening in this thread. Thumbs up all the way Randy.

Didn't see this one there Pete. Followed this one here and one other place and as others have said the stance is dead on and the paint/ scheme looks terrific! Thumbs up!

Nice..............verrrry nice!

Man it's great to see you back Steve! Air filters all look uniform as well as awesome to me!!

It's been a while since I've peeked in on this one. Lovin' the details there Andy and lookin' forward to seeing more on this one.

I had one of those about 15 years ago and wished I still had it. I may end up getting this one again at some point. Build on brutha.

Thanks for the reply and man that's a sharp color. Givin' me ideas here..............

Nice little car and unique build at that.

Started on the chassis this morning. Here's what we had to work with OOB: A couple of cuts and some trimming later yielded the correction: Again, clean up will happen soon but I've gotta make sure this all works before any cosmetic work gets done. I did, however, get rid of those bumps for foot pedals. I think I can come up with something better than that.

Thanks Dave for the comments and for following along on the build.

The paint on this build is spectacular! Great work on this!!

I saw this car over in the favorite paint jobs thread and couldn't get over 1.) the shade of blue and 2.) the workmanship that went into it. What is that color???

That is a sharp car Tom! That interior is the cat's meeeow!

How did I miss this ????? You don't see that one every day. Man that thang sure is purdy Jim!!!!

The amount of detail you're putting into this build is nothing short of staggering Darren. Hell, you were building this when I was on my 56 F-100!! Lookin' forward to more.

Thank you Stephen.

Dave: Thanks and yes sir it is a catchy lil' kit. Hopefully I'll be able to follow suit with the chassis and roof about as easily as the body. lol Ray: Thank you as well and ............go for it! Seems like a lot of folks are building this one.

I actually bought one more since that last post.........

and I'll second that!

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 will have to lengthen the roof and the chassis to follow suit with the body so more on the way.............

Thanks again for all the supportive comments folks. They're very much appreciated. I will say this , I have a newfound respect for anyone who can build one of these old Revell kits and "make it work".

This build and the video were both A-OK in my book. Video was truly fun to watch.