My Best Billycart

[Repliconics]

This is an older build, from a few years ago. At the time my son thought I should try for something a little classier, than what I'd been doing.
In his words something with "Bling".
So I set out to build a billycart that was over the top, but based on a real car.
After looking around on the net for a while, I based it on a straight eight, dual chain driven, Napier.
It took around four months to build, and it was great fun coming up with ways to make all the little extra bits!

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Being a Billycart the scale is not very accurate to the original, but the over all layout is pretty close.
The dashboard and goose neck horn, were the most fun to build.

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I've built a lot of things.
But this is the one that every time I lift the covers off, and drag it out of the shed it makes me smile!


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Anyway I hope you like it.
Cheers.

[shedbound]

That's awesome, is it all timber and painted to look like metal?

[Repliconics]

That's awesome, is it all timber and painted to look like metal?

Yes, the body is all good old MDF
The hinges on the bonnet are, lengths of dowel that I got at with a pipe cutter to mark the spaces.
All of the rivets are nail heads, that I drilled into the MDF.
That was a long day!

[Hermit]

You call that a billy cart! I'd call it a work of art. It looks fantastic.
Very nice work.

[TKO]

I agree with Hermit truly is a of master piece, Eddie

[artme]

WOW and WOW and WOW>

[bj383ss]

I think "Over the top" is an understatment. From the proper angle this could pass as the real car. I will say those duck horns creep me out.

Bret

[crowie]

My goodness me, went a bit over the top with a simple billy-cart build......
I want to see an "OVER THE TOP" build please.....lol.
This one have turned out magnificent, love your imagination & ingenuity, very well done....
Cheers, crowie

[tdrumnut]

Wow, I'm not freakin surprised that it makes you smile, I'd say it would make anyone smile, that is spectacular.

[Repliconics]

Thanks for your kind words.
I'm glad you like the Billycart.
I get a real kick out of building things using recycled materials, and this cart is my favourite.
The wood, MDF, bicycle parts, PVC pipe, and assorted bits and peices.
All came from the local recycling centre at the Mildura Land Fill.
It's a real art supply shop, down there.

[I_wanna_Shed]

That is absolutely awesome. Stunning. Excellent work.

I never would have picked the steel to really be MDF.

Surely that doesn't go out on the road? Should be a Sunday driver

If I had that.... It'd be in the lounge room.

[Repliconics]

Surely that doesn't go out on the road?
If I had that.... It'd be in the lounge room.

It's been down a "mild hill", a few times.
I was great fun to see the kid's enjoy the cart. But some of the smiles on their Mum's and Dad's were pretty big too!
The monocle windshield worked up quite a vibration.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I probably should have made it from steel and not wood.
The lounge rooms a bit full at the moment. The new season of Doctor Who is on, so there's already a life size
Dalek and K9 in there.

[bj383ss]

It's been down a "mild hill", a few times.
I was great fun to see the kid's enjoy the cart. But some of the smiles on their Mum's and Dad's were pretty big too!
The monocle windshield worked up quite a vibration.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I probably should have made it from steel and not wood.
The lounge rooms a bit full at the moment. The new season of Doctor Who is on, so there's already a life size
Dalek and K9 in there.

If you made the Dalek and the K9 you have to show them to us!

Bret

[Repliconics]

If you made the Dalek and the K9 you have to show them to us!

Bret

Abracadabra!

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I'm working on a full size Tardis at the moment, it should be finished in a couple of months.
Hope you like Bret.
Cheers.

[MBM888]

.........I'm working on a full size Tardis at the moment, it should be finished in a couple of months...........

Just so you know, the inside has to be bigger than the outside. I have no doubt that you too have the sonic screwdriver (chisel) to make it happen.

Love your work. Masterpieces!