'63 VW type 1 standard- Aussie spec (Tamiya-Hasegawa cross breed)

Hi Guys,

This one has been sitting around 3/4's finished waiting for me to print out the decals and do the final details. It's a Hasegawa body over a Tamiya chassis and interior with the RHD dash from the Hasegawa kit. It was driven at Bathurst in the 1963 Armstrong 500 by Bill Ford and Barry Ferguson to victory in Class A.




I removed the detail from the seats and door cards as on the 1:1 and removed the radio and cut out the glove box lid.


The VW battled with the Morris 850 of Little/Holland for the lead of Class A for most of the 500 mile race with the VW coming out victorious after the Morris found itself on it's side after contact with the VW on the second to last lap. The two combatants-


I originally was just going to use all of the Hasegawa kit but after a test fit of the interior showed a fair bit of daylight coming through I ended up getting an old  Tamiya VW glue bomb out of my stash and adapting it to fit. All it required was some minor trimming on the chassis sides and a little extra Evergreen behind the rear seat. The bumpers, head lights, front indicators, tail lights are Tamiya . The wheels are Hasegawa rims with modified Tamiya centres on Hasegawa tyres.

(Not So) Interesting factoid-- The Tamiya VW kit is LHD only but it comes only with RHD windscreen wipers and the Hasegawa kit has a RHD dash but it only has LHD wipers. There you go.

Thanks for looking
CheersSS

That's a very cool VW racer, mini looks cool too. 

fantastic job love the seats they look so real

Flawless work! Two thumbs up

Real nice work on this , looks so right.

Great job   

Most impressive Shawn   

Thanks guys. I guess it's back to the Falcon for me now.

Nice work, they look great.

Now if only they raced cars like that at Bathurst now!  Great work.  Love these types cars.

Excellent - looks good up there.

very nice model great job

Well done sir, awesome job.