Meyers Manx

You definately nailed the paint job.How'd you do it?

Thanks TD4438 I initially painted the shell with Humbrol rattle can Crimson. My youngest son (42) told that it looked too dark for the period look I tried to get. He said that I needed metalic or metalflake colour / finish to sharpen it up.

I went to our local Hobbycraft (12 miles) as they advertise various metalflake finishes for greetings cards! I found both coloured and chrome in plastic pump bottles. I also found again coloured and chrome metalflake in my favourite rattle can paint that I always use...Plasti-Kote. I bought coloured and chrome in the card finishes and a chrome only finish from Plasti-Kote.

I tried them all on an old 356 shell and went for the Plasti-Kote. After two light coats I had the finish I needed and so after three or four days to dry added Plasti-Kote clear gloss. Everybody I've shown it to is impressed including my youngest son!

Be aware that you are spraying metal flakes onto a painted surface which makes it very rough and to a certain extent sharp! That's why I coated twice with a gloss clear.

It is like groovy man, far out!

Nice work !

Looks like something Steve McQueen would drive.......

Thanks guys. Yes Steve used to have a long wheelbase or ordinary length beetle chassis with a Corvair 6 in the back, as seen on The Thomas Crown affair. He kept the manx at a beach house. The one they used in the film was his own!

Whoa, does this bring back memories. I'm serious, looked at the first image and was flooded with memories and emotions.

Excellent job! That metal flake job is awe-inspriring, Pat. And thanks for the blast from past.

Yes Greg I also had a lot to do with these when they first came into the UK to a beetle engine guy near home, me being an air-cooled nut with 5 beetles over a space of 20 years. So thanks for the comments. I now enclose the four air-colled buggies in my model collection. But I also have VW Vans,a pickup, camper, Karmann Ghia and a 914 plus of course a few 911's.

These as you can see came with various engines, a Corvair six, a street machine with scratchbulit muffler, the offroader with a stinger exhaust pipe and my latest with the turbo motor that I partly scratchbulit. And all of my paint work is with rattle cans!

When I was recently on vacation between the UK and Hawaii I came across the May edition on 'Hot Rod' magazine at an airport bookstall. It has six pages in the centre of the magazine all about Bruce Meyers and the Manx including the latest version version the Manx DualSport. Very Interesting!