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Some more updates, got 3 more coats of clear on it, blew it back apart, foiled body trim with BMF. I started working on the chassis. I got the wheelbase figured out, made chassis to differential brackets, made a driveshaft, made brackets for seat and lower cover panels. I made cage to fit around new radically raised seat. Since Grandma is between 5 foot and 5 foot nuthin, she can’t see over the wheel, so I scratch built a phone book for her to sit on. I covered all the aluminum panels with matte aluminum BMF to make them pop a little more. I then had to figure out the body hinge. Using portions of the original funny car frame hooks, I radically shortened them, made brackets for them and fashioned body pivot( still a little rough, but will look good) I started wiring the mags, also will be adding injection lines and other goodies. I drilled out zoomie tubes

Outstanding! The attention to details and painting are fabulous.

Thank you Bob. It’s coming along pretty well, more to come

Incredible fabrication throughout!! Your attention to detail is simply put, amazing. I eagerly await the next updates!

Blower, hat, linkage, injection all look amazing

Thank you Ryan, stay tuned in

Stunning!! Great looking build

Thank you Bob. That is what I am aiming for, absolutely nutty! Keep watching, more off the wall stuff to come!

Some more progress, still have some cleanup to do on rear fish scale pattern. I’ m starting to work on chassis configuration now. I had to remove a section from middle of chassis and need to relocate differential to area that the seat occupied. The seat will be located over the diff now. I will have to relocate the column, dash, shifter and chute release. There will be a bunch of fabrication to do here.

Nicely detailed, looks great. Fantastic color choice.

Nice! I like it Roger. The display is really cool also.

I’m in!

Cool concept, always nice to see something that is not the usual, often done . It definitely works! I’ m watching

Thank you! I’m shooting for something so out there, that you would never see again. I wanted to paint a cow howling at the moon on it, but I couldn’t get permission, so I scratched it. I will have a couple surprises along the way. I’m also trying to re- hone my airbrush skills, since I got away from custom painting over 30 years ago.

Cool project, following

4 coats of Mr.Color GX112 UV Cut clear. This is where I am caught up. More progress to come soon

I taped out a would be hand painted peace sign on right side and a sun on left, so that the gold/ silver blend would show through. I the made some ghost flames with some light/ dark highlights over a black metallic base, then blended MCW Candy fire red and candy tangerine to complete the 4 color candy blend

I do have a weird sense of humor, more to come

Staying with your every day beater paint job, on to the body. I started with candy hunter green from MCW, blending into MCW Candy lime gold

On to the roof, a little candy hunter green cosmic graphic over silver/ black, skull under gold peal graphics and candy tangerine for the rest of roof

For the canopy roof, your everyday Candy blue fish scale over silver base

Now that I have the basics of what needed to be modified for the chassis to fit, I am going to start on your basic, everyday VW bus paint job. The body has to be together for it to work out properly. After prepping the body by, removing flash, smoothing, I primed and then laid down a base of MCW bright gold metal flake and ultra silver blend

I am going to have all the doors open, and hinge the body. I cut the stock bus floor to fit chassis fairly snugly. I also intend to have as much stock interior as possible to fit the theme.

The chassis is a very different wheelbase, I dissected the funny car chassis to get proper wheelbase, reinstalling differential below driver to accommodate and raise driver to be able to see out window.

I sourced the slightly upgraded power plant and chassis