Wacky Rally car Audi 80 to huey helecopter

[Bodd]

Hey guys, I put up athread a while ago explaining that this year myself and 3 other mates are going on the wacky rally to Barcelona.

If you've not heard of it, it's like the gumball rally.....with £250 cars.....in fancy dress.

1800 miles of complete randomness, daily tasks and prizes.

we've entered two teams Air Cavaelry (like Apocalypse Now)and team KGB, and will be trying to beat each other all the way.

Air Cav (myself and a house mate) have an old Audi 80 diesal 1.9 turbo that we are going to make look like a Vietnam Huey helecopter.

http://www.wackyrally.co.uk/



bit of propaganda lol, me on the left looking like a numpty

so thought i would put up a project thread to give you all a laugh.(sorry its not a BMW hope thats ok moderator team)

I didnt take any pics of the audi before we started but it looked exactly like this. We got it for £60 from a garage next door to where my house mate works with a years MOT! and its only done 200,000 mile......so its just run in



ok so first things first, the design...a quick bit of photoshop for ideas.


then time to start painting. weapons of choice.....house paint rollers and brushes with matt green water resistant paint.
started off giving it a wash with some 80 gritt sand paper to key the surface









Time to start the gun......and we decided its got to be a minigun........so 3 bits of ply wood a speaker box plasitc pipes two paint tins a metail threaded bar,a chain of old inert bullets and an old 12v drill in the box to make it spin!




then painted it black and time to mount it on the car!





colour coded rims....lol


bullet holes and some rivets...




comming up...the tail and rear rotor blade more painting(logos, American white army stars etc..)
hope you all will have a giggle watching this progress.

[Alex]

Brilliant

Is this classed as rat look

[SYE]

very cool i might have a look into this myself.

[Ali]

Great thread I will watch with interest

[Bodd]

pics comming up of the turbine on the roof around the rotor bearing. rotor blades, rocket pods and landing skids 2 weeks left!!

oh and forgot to mention, we got hold of an old car alarm and its now rigged on our friends car(the red one in the background) with the locking button doing a 4 second burst on the horn and the unlock button doing the wipers!...so when they roll up behind a police car or at a junction with some one crossing we're going to be pressing the button on their horn for a four second blast.....they wont know what the hells going on

[Alex]

Any more pics of the red one

[Swinton]

quality, looks like a great crack! Keep us upto date and get some pics of the red one up aswell

[Bodd]

ok guys here’s the red one. This is Team KGB's(other house mate and friends)car. Its a Citroen xantia or zara...i can't remember. I imagine most of you will remember a game called command an conquer red alert.....well they wanted to make the mammoth tank from that...neither of them are practical or hands on people...yeah...good luck. lol the cool thing about the Citroen though is it has hydraulic suspension and goes pretty low .























the above picture was after they though the car needed a few dents fo they took the sledge hammer to the boot to find out it was made of fibre glass ha ha.! repaire job with a beer can











In full slammed mode

[Alex]

Love it.

Do you think your weaponry will stay attached when you're on the road

[Dan323 Cab]

cool

[Bodd]

Love it.

Do you think your weaponry will stay attached when you're on the road

yeah ours will(the green one)........the red one......errrr not so sure.lol

[Bodd]

Hey guys not been on the Forum for some time so thought i would do a bit of an update. The rally was great and very hard work but we won joint first best car with a sciroco that was made into the back to tey future time machine(delorian)

from england to bacalona was great adventure, met loads of peep and would recomend it.....and didnt get arrested!

[Nick]

awesome pics fella

[Alex]

Wicked!

[Chubbypickels]

tripperslol it looks well fun how much did it cost ya to do in all? would love to do it my self!