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Thanks Scott, now I want to build a real one! Er I don't think so!

Thanks guys with super positive feedback! I get a thousand times more satisfaction in putting together something like this where you've got to use a great a lot of the grey cells (although I might only have a few left), rather than a standard out of the box build where the instructions tell you what to do. Bob I've just added to your comments (on the other site). I have a self coloured Manx kit that I bought late last year from ebay USA and had it shipped over the pond. With that I suppose a minimum amount of painting is needed, so the tyres, steering wheel rim and seat fronts could do with satin / matt black paint and wiring the plugs will do. I think now though I'd better do some standard builds again. My son's have bought various Porsche kits for me over the years for Christmas, birthday and Fathers day and more recently a 1/16 scale Citroen 19 DS (Heller) so I'll start on some of those.

Thanks guys! Yes I have an engine shot, after I added the alloy torque tube to join the front and rear 4X4 drive. I routed the exhaust over the top of the engine and scratch built the exhaust silencer. It keeps the exhaust out of harms way over the rough. I had to cut slots in the inner part of the bodywork to get the exhaust through at high level, because as you can see the four wheel drive there is little space to route the exhaust any other way as the normal VW exhaust would normally be below rather than above the engine.. one of my VW turbo conversions shows a low exhaust system.............

After seeing this in a model magazine....... I bought a Jimmy Flintstone resin Manx shell bonnet and windscreen from CMS Customs in the USA..... And scavenging parts from various boxes, scratchbuilding a few things and a Corvair engine from I came up with this.......................... Just seeing the drawing inspired me to build this!

It's good to see a great British sportscar in British Racing Green, built so well 508, brilliant!

Yes basically being a racing car builder I like to add race car tyre decals to anything, cars trucks bikes and some planes if I can find the decals small enough! Yes with bright red you might be spotted sooner than you would like but with rocket power you can still get away. I think camo's ok but carbon fibre decallled would look good. Here in the UK at present the favourite colour for new cars is white, so my 43 year old son came round and asked why I hadn't painted it white! In fact as it comes all in black plastic you don't even need to paint it at all!!

I've finished this today it's in metalic red rather than dark black!

Keep the colour it's superb as is the finish.

Wow Mike, as a race/airfield marshal over nearly 30 years at Silverstone just up the road here in the UK, I remember these when they came over from their base in Italy to race in the European Touring Car series in the day. What beautiful machines and great teams, both factory and customer teams, what great days they were. Your making a grand job of this model, keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing the rest of the build. The video is just superb, just as I remember them. A good friend of my two sons has re-built a 1-1 road car over the last 5 years and runs it only in the summer.

Nice one! As a previous owner of Beetles and a neighbour with one of these in Dark Green, yes you've done a great job.

Great build so far keep up the good work. I look forward to the rest of the build, as an owner of 3 beetles and two others in the family over the years, YES I'm a bug fan!

Super build up so far! I rememeber this car flying past me when I was a rally marshal here in the UK. I look forward to the rest of the build.

Just have a google search 'images of Broadspeed fastback'. All manner of Braodspeeds on there.

Yes the Cortina rear lights are on a TVR Griffith, which was a fibreglass car built by TVR but a bit unreliable in it's day. This takes me back to the days when I ran a beetle and always wanted a Mini Copper 'S'. In those days the engines for the 'S'came in 999cc and 1275cc. Broadspeed were essentially Ford tuners/racers most of the Ford 'works' cars were built by Broadspeed. I've seen a few of this model of Broadspeed as I live about 60 miles south of their factory in the UK. One of their first 'modified' shells was just chopped with all the rain gutters shaved off. I also saw these fastback models race at Silverstone circuit which is just 5 miles from me, many, many years ago when I was a race marshall there. Very nice build but I don't know about the colour! Looking through the archives I came across this Minisprint GTS...... Oh yes and who is that guy on the left with what looks to be a fag on, oh yes it's Stirling Moss, this was 1966! Here's the Broadspeed fastback in race trim......

Hi Brizio, the build is really looking good. The outlaw style I was thinking about is the photo below..... Smooth, no bumpers(in this case just nerf bars, no hub caps, written tyres and slightly lowered. We had a number of beetles and my youngest son's was lowered, by tweaking the torsion bars on the back, and an adjustable beam on the front.

We had a few beetles over 10 years or so and to keep the front end down to enhance the steering we put the spare wheel on top of the fuel tank and put a large plastic bag full of wet sand where the spare wheel normally sits right in the nose! It's a nice thought to give the beetle a bit more power, but if you use the standard wheels and tyres, when the drop the clutch the torque will tear the rear tyres away from the rims! Nice build by the way it shows a bit of imagination, which is what we modelmakers are about.

Superb build well done. A great British sportscar.

Superb build well done, and the real ones are winning races!

Nice Porsche, as you are building it as a daily runner is it going to be in outlaw style?

Nice one Jim. Now go and get those tyres dirty!

Well done empinut, superb build, thanks for sharing!

Wow Jim that looks really great! Yes your right they should have put it on the production line.

Superb work afx, I've added my comments to your other build and may well get mine out of the box and try and finish it after many attempts to put things right!

Your doing some fantastic work on the 914, which is still my favourite Porsche. In the UK it was always called the VW-Porsche, where as a race marshall had seen the 914-6 race in the '70's. I've recently worked on two of these kits but the poor quality has made me put them both back in their boxes. I've done as you have, beefing up all of the chassis, rebuilding the suspension numerous times as one wheel is always off the ground, and one still is so I've put them away for the time being. I might get them out again after the seeing the great work your doing. I look forward to seeing the finished car!

Very nice european classic racing car, well done_TRF_