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6th May 2013, 12:14 PM #1
My Best Billycart
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.
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6th May 2013, 12:52 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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That's awesome, is it all timber and painted to look like metal?
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6th May 2013, 01:16 PM #3
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6th May 2013, 01:46 PM #4
You call that a billy cart! I'd call it a work of art. It looks fantastic.
Very nice work.... Steve
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6th May 2013, 03:59 PM #5Senior Member
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I agree with Hermit truly is a of master piece, Eddie
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6th May 2013, 06:31 PM #6Skwair2rownd
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WOW and WOW and WOW>
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6th May 2013, 10:53 PM #7
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
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7th May 2013, 08:44 AM #8
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
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7th May 2013, 08:55 AM #9
Wow, I'm not freakin surprised that it makes you smile, I'd say it would make anyone smile, that is spectacular.
Regards Rumnut.
SimplyWoodwork
Qld. Australia.
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7th May 2013, 09:45 AM #10
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.
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7th May 2013, 10:45 AM #11
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.
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8th May 2013, 09:39 AM #12
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.
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8th May 2013, 11:12 AM #13
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8th May 2013, 02:20 PM #14
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.
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8th May 2013, 03:48 PM #15
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