AUTOSALON 2008 – willy went, willy saw, willy replicar’d! :-)

[PandaBear]

[z-beam]

nice pics there! the r35 is a stunner… i love my q-steer version.

where the r/c versions all yours? how long did it take you to copy the real deals? and did you have pics from magazines to go from?

[PandaBear]

yep 🙂

i did 4 replicars in the week up to AS with full custom paint & stickers set, all “famous” cars

Autosalon Industrie chrome S15 Silvia (on Tamiya Coppermix)

BuddyClub’s trackracer DC5 Integra (on Tamiya RSX)

Tengku Djan’s AE86 Trueno (on HPI Trueno)

MadBull RX7… which didn’t get painted so wasn’t completed yet…

so when i managed to get my paws on the GTR shell only on the Thursday,
did the Haltech GTR as the showstopper 😀 totally all done in about 36hrs.
The “titanium” and gunmetal paint tones were custom mixed & handpainted.

Quite a few pics of the Haltech car shown in recent months and its pretty stock
bodywise… they only modded the car computer i think… its still a beast.
Plus a sydney friend spotted the car on a towtruck on way down to melbourne
on the thurs so got more pix there… then it was at AS setup on Friday so
i got some alone-time with it to check final details before i stickered mine.
Completed 4am on Sat morning.

[Dangerous Dave]

you’re one hard core Panda..

well done, cheers for sharing

[z-beam]

thanks for the story behind the pics panda, glad i asked!

considering what youve had to work with they are fantastic riplicars.

what did the owners of the real things think?

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