Anyone who went to Warwick would have seen this already, but I figured I should throw a few of the build up photos of the "RAD BUG" that my brother in law (Brad) and I put together over a three week period leading up to Warwick.
Thanks to Graham (11cab) for putting up a "freebie" post on AVD on behalf of his mate, we picked it up and started work after a figuring out a plan of attack.
With a non running engine, unknown gearbox and questionable suspension and brakes (plus some rust and other problems), it was decided a drag car was in order - only if we could get it done for warwick!
Here is how it looked when we picked it up:
Despite me being dead against the fibreglass guards and whale tail and wanting to build a nice cal looker, Brad persisted that the "sex on wheels" fibreglass additions had to stay....much to my dismay.
If they were going to stay then we were going to embrace them and run with the theme. 95% of the work was done after hours so I could continue work on customers cars so there were lots of late nights in those three weeks (1-2am was not uncommon, with one stint of 36 hours straight a couple days prior to the event). Inside was stripped out:
I bought a set of 80s style jelly bean mags off rexy (again AVD comes to the rescue) which were corroded but servicable.
After quite a few hours sanding one night I gave them a quick hit with the polisher to shine em back up.
Next they were masked up for some orange highlights.
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