D Leteren beetle

Just right after finishing my Avante 2001 I had to finish the next project. It ´s a gift to a good friend who hosted my real beetle this year and helped me very much in getting my overhauled engine to work. He has also an old beetle and is a big fan of the story of the D leteren VW beetle, which were produced in Belgium with OKRASA kits to get the horsepower up to 50PS at that time. Only a few were produced, till VW boss Heinrich Nordhoff forbid the production. Very rare these days €¦ So I tried to get this as low budget project. Another racing friend offered me his M06 pro Chassis, because he moved on to the M08. Perfect base, some Hopups already included, like Yeah Racing oil diff and Aluminum Motor mount. Wheels and tires are slightly used ones from my own beetle, body is new. He likes the green one, so I found Tamiya cobaltgreen to be closest to VW 'Javagreen' in darker conditions. The Mach 1 logo I sketched up quickly in Powerpoint, added some license plates from his hometown and added some other stickers for printing on outdoor adress sticker sheets, that are waterproof. Lights are painted translucent with my airbrush, and on the front indicators I tested a chrome lexan color for the first time (Alclad). It came out nice, and is much easier than applying the Tamiya stickers for the indicators. Electronics are used from eBay local advertisings. Can ´t wait to see his face, when it will be finally gifted to him...