TOTD Club Project

[dguy]

You want big?  You want time consuming?




Kitten & I had a thought on our way home yesterday afternoon.

We build ourselves, from scratch, a 1:1, fully-detailed, model of a Fiero...

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...out of lego.   


When I say detailed, I mean detailed.  Strength of building materials aside, someone looking at it should have the impression that they could sit in the driver's seat, mash the pedal & go.

[fiero308]

boy
you sure can spot the people who don't have kids.
Do you know how MUCH that would cost? More than titanium, I'll bet.......... LOL
 

We are hoarding our son's lego from years gone by. We $ank $o much into it that we are reluctant to see it go...........

I would guess that a seat would cost about $500 for materials alone........!!!
 

[dguy]

Actually there's a Lego knock-off on the shelves now, called MegaBlocs.  Same idea, better price.  

don't ask me how I know this

[aaron88]

We could co-ordinate a tube frame design that's a direct swap?

Or make owr own front end clip like norms, only better.

or a bolt in interior kind of like the firbird one.

We don't have to invest and build the damn things we just have to design them.  Just enough to get the whole club involved for a good while.

Aaron

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[fiero308]

well I never really cared for the dash...... and I do plan on swapping mine out...
so a custom dash that could be installed 'all by itself' ie wouldn't have to get into steering column mounts etc etc might be an idea. Fiberglass or sheet metal or alum; could be anything.

THAT being said, I am not a fan of working with f'glass (as in "anymore") having done it in the past. I did learn how and it did work out - I simply don't like the stuff that much. Fumes and sanding and so on.

I tend to prefer the firebird or Grand Am swap....... looks so good when the doors match it etc.

There. Have I been contradictory enough?
 

[aaron88]

if I did go with a fiberglass dash it would be a covered dash so that we wouldn't have to worry at all about surface finnish, nor would we look cheep with our hard dashes.

Aaron

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P.S. we would likely need a parts car for this though.

[FieroBUZZ]

Actually there's a Lego knock-off on the shelves now, called MegaBlocs.  Same idea, better price.   

don't ask me how I know this

They're a bitch to play 500 pick-up with...
don't ask how I know that.. 

[dguy]

I'd be interested in a custom interior project too, especially if it eliminated those "ears" on the dash which everyone's knees like to slowly destroy. 

...but adapting the interior from another car?  Nah.  I'd rather do 100% original.

[Kevin]

Lego eh? I could probably contribute to that if Chris doesn't mind. People ask me what kind of floor covering I have and I say Lego. That stuff hurts when trod upon trying to sneak around the house in the wee hours.  Kevin