Ok, this is a wierd one to follow up with after the pic of the Freddy and Jason action figures, but here it is.
This, is a Custom Herbie that was originally built by Johnny Lightning. When i got it back on 2003...it looked ok, but I never felt it really captured Herbie quite right, sooooo,, when Johnny Lightning started to release this same car in different paints, I jumped at the chance to swap some parts. What you see here is the last 4 years and $50.00 of an obsession to make this car better.

the first thing I did was buy two other bugs. One was a black custom Beetle and one was a standard burgandy Beetle. I got both of them and proceeded to take parts from them. I used the black Beetle's rims and double wide tires and combined them with parts from Herbies rims. I then cut and sanded and drilled and glued and painted till I got Herbie rims that were wide enough to fir the extra wide racing tires. Then, I put them back on the chassis of the custum bug because it has a race exhaust system that looked cooler. XD I then took burgundy Beetle's VW logo hub caps and glued them onto Herbies new widened out rims. See, in the original 1969 film, Herbie was sporting no VW logos o his hubcaps or even on his hood. Why? TM logos i guess *shrugs*. Next, I took Herbies interior apart and painted it grey. Herbies interior in the movies was grey, but Johnny Lightning made it white...paper white...for no reason. so, I fixed it. Next, I took the custoum Beetle's seats. these seats were red on a red interior, so I painted them grey and put them in Herbie...Racing Car = Racing Seats. I also stole the custom bugs steering wheel for Herbie.

I then put the black running boards from the burgundy Beetle on Herbie. Which replaced the ones you see in the before pics which are painted white. Lastly, I ordered some Shabo Good Year tire decals and added a much needed detail.

It's MUCH better than before, but it still needs some work. I still have to paint Herbs dash board in grey, but first I want to add a tachometer and oil pressure, teperature, and battery power lever guages to the dash. I also want to make a roll bar and add some decals to the side rear windows that make it more like a real race car.

Anyway, that's my obsession. I sure hope someone out there likes it ^_^;