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RickB · Nov 11th, 2003, 08:37 PM

I ended up with a complete IJ set, plus two extra red ones. Then, I got two DS/W, and a BRG/W. The wheels on the DS cars are so lame, that I drilled out the chassis rivets, and swapped the bodies of the DS cars with the two extra red ones (I used a "metal glue" similar to JB Weld). I painted the roof of one DS to match my car, then by selectively painting the spokes of the wheels, I ended up with decent renditions of s-lites on one, and R90s on the other. Tackling the bonnet stripes might be a bit much.

Nov 11th, 2003, 08:37 PM	#55
RickB MINI2 Master Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Local Time: 08:59 PM Posts: 775 Offline	I ended up with a complete IJ set, plus two extra red ones. Then, I got two DS/W, and a BRG/W. The wheels on the DS cars are so lame, that I drilled out the chassis rivets, and swapped the bodies of the DS cars with the two extra red ones (I used a "metal glue" similar to JB Weld). I painted the roof of one DS to match my car, then by selectively painting the spokes of the wheels, I ended up with decent renditions of s-lites on one, and R90s on the other. Tackling the bonnet stripes might be a bit much.