New Beetle - little different...

[janositamas]

Hi Guys, here is my Tamiya New Beetle - freestyle. First off I started it as a 'girlie' car for my wife, but decided to build it something different instead. So I made differences in the front bumper: filled the turning lights and cut off the grille with the foglights, used mesh instead. I opened the front hood but made a trunk as I put the engine behind the backseats. So I stratchbuilt a trunk compartment, painted it black and added black carpet material inside and on the interior of the hood. I found the hinges in my leftover box. So I put an engine behind the seats, I don't really know what engine it is as it was also part of my leftover box. I only used the engine block as had to work in a small area. So real fanatic modifying builders, be gentle with me as I did not modify the car to a RWD from a FWD, but modified the exhaust making a hole for it at the rear underside. Then I put some stuff in the engine bay also, making a firewall, a turbo (from a Mustang), battery, some tubes, parts for the brake (don't know the name), everything from my parts box. I also added some heat resistant foil on the inside of the hood and a rubber belt to make the closing easier, hinges are leftover. Added a roof spoiler also and used PE parts for the brakes, license plates and interior stuff. Cut the holes of the backing and rear foglights at the rear bumper to make room for the exhaust tips, and painted the lower part of the bumper black to imitate a diffusor. The interior is dark red and black with PE parts and some carpet material, changed the stock front seats to racing seat, added CF on the backside of them, and decided not to use the headrest of the rear seats - would have looked stupid IMO. Wheels are from a R34 Skyline, Bridgestone decals from a Silvia. Exhaust Enough of the talk, here are the pics. Comments and criticism are welcome as always.










Thanks for watching.

[Ferrari TR]

Rumor is the next NB will have the engine in the rear.
yours is ahead of VW. nice!

[dav3_wu]

COOL!!! everething is nice!! does it fully operating?

[NSX Fan]

thats sweet. are those S2000 or skyline rims?

[NissanSkylineGTR98]

Those are R34 rims correct? Very cool concept. Looks excellent!

[CifeNet]

Wow, this is the one time I have seen anyone tries to open the front and rear! Nce job! Flocking looks great as well.

[janositamas]

Thanks guys, the rims are from a Tamiya R34 Skyline, and unfortunately the hood and trunk are glued onto the bodyshell open, so they are not operating