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Beetle Racer

Postby dge467 » Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:52 pm

I made this for a race series we are having at my local slot car shop. You can make any body mods, but the chassis must be unmodified. I lowered the body and chopped the roof off. I made a tonneau cover out of sheet plastic. The head rest is made from the nose of a Scaley indy car that was wrecked. I made the windshield from a piece of home thermostat packaging.I painted it with Testor's AMC Sterling Silver Metallic. I already put a crack in the front fender while doing practice laps! ImageImageImageImage
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby ourwayband » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:34 pm

That is just Crazy Cool!Just Buggin'!

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Postby Alaskaracer » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:59 pm

Very cool!!
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:12 pm

You made a eye catcher there :)
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Postby Xr4ti » Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:02 pm

That is too cool!
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby dreinecke » Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:04 pm

Now that is ingenuity! Very cool ride!
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby vonsirius » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:22 pm

fantastic car!
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby RazorJon » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:54 pm

they should build a 1:1 scale, very nice build sir
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby FootScoot » Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:30 am

That is so cool! I like the aerodynamic headrest, nothing but cool. :D I forsee another project. :roll:
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby DHansen » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:17 am

Very cool VW.
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby dge467 » Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:35 pm

Thanks for the compliments! :) I actually managed to win the first race of the series tonight! There was some great looking Beetles racing, we had a blast racing them!
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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby Dundee Denny » Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:28 pm

impressed with the creativity of all the various "parts" that came together to look this good!!!

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Re: Beetle Racer

Postby ListerStormGT » Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:03 am

That is very cool, great idea with the indy car nose cone too!
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