This section of the board looks lonely, so here's something that might be kinda interesting to a few people.
I love the classic Beetles (hate the new Waterbugs) and have a real VW based kitcar in progress, so when RS released "Herbie" I was all over that. 1st one I got I kept stock, 2nd I decided to lower and it looked sweet lowered so I decided it needed to become a Drag Beetle.
For those of you that just aren't into these, the drag beetles are wickedly fast, much larger displacement than stock, and generally Turbocharged. It's not uncommon to have a quartermile in the sub-10's.
"Herbie" is a bit confused of a body, first it can't decide if it's a standard beetle or a super beetle, it's a square window, yet it's got a "W" decklid with a pope's nose brake light, pre-67 tail lights, export bumpers, and somebody added eyebrows. It's a pretty sweet ride, but it's confused. Anyway, if I'm gonna build a drag car it's going to be a hard top for the extra torsional rigidity, I never liked eyebrows, and I'm going for a bit of a Cal Look to it so the front bumper changes to T-bars.
The first pics I've got of the conversion. Lowered, some body mods, the start of the Turbo Box.
Turbo Box shrunken
3/4 Rear shot.
Mockup of some Wrinklewall slicks on chrome beadlock rims, and a set of pizza cutters up front.
Posing with the new stance.
So, now I've just got to finish making the body perfect, choose a paint scheme, squirt some paint, detail, interior...