A New-York-look Beetle?!

[David G.]

Great looking shine!

David G.

[slusher]

Beautiful paint, Jim!

[ea0863]

Are we allowed to describe a car as "bad ass" on this site?  BTW, what color are the rims going to be when finished? 

[Kah puts]

That paint job and rub out are well worth the effort. 

[OldNYJim]

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone!  Was hustling to get this one finished for the Summer NNL today, so excuse the lack of updates…

Got the interior finished - made some window cranks with photoetch and the pupils out of some TINY googly eyes and faked the seatbelts with some cloth medical tape laid over the molded-in ones:

Then, mated interior and chassis to the body - the fit was a little tricky to get good, so I need to mess with that some more on the next one I build:

Then from there it was a case of attaching the wheels (with a little camber in the rear - not a bunch because I didn’t want that ‘broken suspension’ look, even if it IS correct for a lowered Bug):

Installing all the chrome doodads on the body, then the bumpers:

Designing and 3D printing a license plate - I haven’t perfected the design for these plates with the raised letters yet, but I still like it more than a totally flat plate:

And with that, it was about done!

And…it made it to the show on time (and found another Beetle to park next to):

Thanks for following along everyone, appreciate all the kind comments - I’ll post some more pics ‘under glass’…I’ve already got a bunch of ideas for the next one I want to build!

[dsummone]

Beautiful Bug. 

[slusher]

Great looking Beetle ? Jim!