Let Me Drive

awesom guys love they way to can recreat it all, wish i had the tellent to do that

ok back to the out side of the BUS!!!! this is what you have seen and now with a bit of help from a good friend she is now stickered up in the RED BUS RACEING and of course as the major sponser of this built and now the big outting down the street for the first time so the wheels went on and made a huge difference and as for the trailer she got a new lick of paint and now we can carry two car down the track !!! so awesome!!!

so this is the back where the car goes in backwards pulled by a automation controlled winch!!!! and now for more bits and pieces in the bus the tv installed and working awesome!!! new stero installed and sounding good!!! time to pump the tunes All the seats removed and now the carpet goes down and up all the walls. all so you can see all the floor is covered in rubber matting 8mm thick to sound deaden the intire bus.

this is what it will that will be transported in it

this stage you all asking about thw wheels but will keep you in question a bit longer!!! LOL!!! no next now the bus was back we had to get her road worthy which was no easy task. after being inspected by a local bus and truck mob they said we need to change a few bushes nothing else. so we changed the bushes and bit and pieces and thought we were all good. so took it to the roadwothy place and they found heaps of fults. NOT HAPPY. so with about 7 grand more spent on the underside of the bus she was now ready. while this was all happing we had time to play with the interior. this is what it looked like inside. now its starting to take shape with the walls all insulated and skined and new partion in. and of course the workshop dog BALLY new seats test fit and the start of the kitchen

ok now the thread is up i will start to show more of what we have done so far. next it was off to the painters in which is a truck spray painters with a booth that you can drive a full size bus in and paint in one go!!! the boys spent two day sanding and filling the entire bus smoothing everything out making it awesome and ready to paint. while this was happing john decided that he wanted a fast bus so red was chosen, Not just any red he wanted farrari red but again is was now up to many differnt colours of farrari red. So in the end he decided on ferrari scuderia red 2009/2010. so the guys mixed the paint and started to paint but there was a twist they changed now to a two tone. Ferrari scuderia red and black just to make the bus stand out. Now the first photo of the painted bus with also the new mirrors (they are awesome) So next came the new bullbar all polished and looking awesome just finishes the front of the bas nice and with a bit of additude.

Where is everyone lol!!!!

So it all started back early this year when we were at phillip island raceway at the shannons classics, Speaking to many friends my farther John came to me and said we are going to build a car carrier for you race car. he took possession of a 1980 Volvo 40ft coach that had been work on and started to be built as a car carrier. Everything was makeshift nothing done well and they even had stories of dropping cars and all sorts of problems. So John took it upon him self to make it into what he wanted and this is the story goes. so as you can see the bus was very old and tired and needed a bit of work. As stated everything need to be changed so first was the aircon unit on top, it did not work so we ripped it off. next we set to work on stripping the bus back little bit at a time. But as normal when doing reno's the more you look the more you find, and did we find more crap and more crap, so when pullng the windows out to we found loads of rust from many year of neglect, slowly we pulled each pannel back to find what was behind and that what we found so it was decided that everything has to come off and see what the real deal was undernith the beast walls. so will all the rust cut out we renforced the structure with 40x40 steal to make it nice a solid again as you can see in the photo. this was all due to some of the windows not going back in to the bus and making the back section enclosed and prying eyes off whats in the back LOL!!!. so as we went with fixing the structure we came to the point was to change all the pannels either take off and fix or replace with new mild steal sheet cut to pannel size. because this is not just a car carrier but also a motor home we updated all the wireing and installed all the electronics so now the bus was stripped and ready to tackel the next stage and that was to reskin the enitire bus down each side with one sheet of fiberglass, this came in a roll in which we cut to shape on the floor and then 8-10 guys helped hold it to the side of the bus where we had applied bonding glue( this was not fun we had one shot each side), once on the bus we used the forklift and ties to strech the fiberglass out and make the side nice and smooth. so this is what she looked like in raw form. so again like the race car many hours we spent sanding and repairing all the old damage read to be painted. this was a major step in seeing what the final product would look like in a few months.

ill be there ash

no no no the car is not reg just for the small drive i had to do to go to the show n shine lol

awesome work guys great read

just some more photos of the finished projest thought i would take her out shopping at docklands LOL!!!

thanks that awesome

decals i would do but the paint i can pay for just dont know where to get or whats the right colour that would be for you to do and give me a price

i have two 1:24 scale models and want some one to put them together for me i have tryed but so fiddly i cant do the model justis just putting it out there because ages ago some one said they would from the club and i cant remember who it was

shush rowdy

As the tiitle says i am looking for some one to put together a model of my car down to many of the details they can im willing to pay and can supply the models and many photos, just wondering if there was any body out there that would do this????

saw this at the show and shine and would like to see that it is very sexy

i think the club has spear helemts for navs

nice photos guys keep them coming. big thanks to ash for making the day happen and sorting all the paper work out, and big thanks to my old man for towing my car and the city of melbourne for not knowing how to remove any bollards and us having to dismantle them to get the car in LOL!!!!

will be there guys with the GTR and all new stickers she looks mint

If you like give m a text and I'll get you the guy that has done our bus and track car

ill be there in car 814 and yes im staying on the hill cant wait

cant make it this year due to targa high country wish i could be there might of had a chance in the r32 gtr cat

cant wait to go