Richthofen aka The Red Baron

panzer 2.3 · Mar 6, 2009

Well, the joke around my town is they call me "The Red Baron" because of my German heritage & TR GTI. So, I decided to go with it & have had a europlate made saying Richtofen that'll I'll put in my back-ordered euro bumper, if it ever comes in. I know alot of you won't like my car & maybe some will? but that's what happens when you air your photos on a public forum. Before, I get flamed I have the banner on my car to support my sponsor, and that's the only outside decal, but I have other sponsor decals underneath my hood. The plan is to go fully shaved on everything. Entire front bumper, door handles/molding, rear emblem, antenna & fuel door. I would like to put a little build thread together as I progress.
*Inspiration*

Here's the front bumper off to the body shop, the entire bumper will be one piece w/ the osir fog covers being molded in smooth, sorry for the crappy iphone pics, but one day I'll have my wife take some good pics with her dslr:

Here's my buddy Justin at BMC filling the hood notch:

Cleaning it up:

Welded:

filled:

Prime1:

Here's the rear emblem being shaved:

& the new satin black shield:

& a pic of the bay:

As it stands today, I'm waiting on new door skins to have shaved up & I will order the fuel cell soon. I have a ton of interior parts at the body shop & a new interior plan is being worked on. A bbk & new clutch will finish off my performance mods, as I'm already K04 & am very happy with the car's power. A AWD vs. widebody conversion is being researched & priced out. I'm not trying to show off, or start any drama, just sharing what I'm doing as far as my car, as I like learning from all of you guys too. I'm always open to suggestions http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif I wanna thank the Wife, Walt, Mel & Josh for advice & inspiration. AWE & BMC & my good buddy Chuck & Dan

& no it's not a award show

Modified by panzer 2.3 at 12:40 PM 3-6-2009

bagged bunny · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (panzer 2.3)

Thats gonna be one smooth GTI.
It will look sick when your are done! http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif

Gkap · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (panzer 2.3)

lookin good http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif
everyones shaving there sh*t

panzer 2.3 · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (bagged bunny)

Quote, originally posted by bagged bunny »

Thats gonna be one smooth GTI.
It will look sick when your are done! http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif

Thanks, it's def on a budget. Being I'm married with a house & a ton of bills everything I do is mostly in trade, & a ton of OT at work

Patr!ck Bateman · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (panzer 2.3)

so far so good, just too much red in the engine bay IMO

bagged bunny · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (Patr!ck Bateman)

Question how will you go about opening the hatch?

VWReza · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (bagged bunny)

you got other pics of your "inspiration"?

CiDirkona · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (bagged bunny)

Quote, originally posted by bagged bunny »

Question how will you go about opening the hatch?

Full Hatch Pop DIY FTW http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif
Module 46, Byte 2, bit 3.

bassmanjosh · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (panzer 2.3)

Quote, originally posted by panzer 2.3 »

Total awesomeness FTW!!

nothing-leaves-stock · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (CiDirkona)

nice shawn.

i ain't making fun of you...you scare me hahahahaaaaaa

MkIIICaBriO · Mar 6, 2009

will smith called..... he wants his audi back. lol.
cars lookin good so far. big ups and cant wait to see it finished

suicidesilence · Mar 6, 2009

the car seems like its getting better looking, are you going to be keeping those vent things in the fog grills?

itskv · Mar 6, 2009

FV-QR

cant wait to see the outcome

iDubber.com · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (bagged bunny)

your car = effin

luciano136 · Mar 6, 2009

Looks great!!
Man, I remember playing that game as a kid. That's a loooong time ago. I had it on a 5.25" floppy disk on an old IBM computer without hard drive LOL

panzer 2.3 · Mar 6, 2009

Re: Richthofen aka The Red Baron (nothing-leaves-stock)

Quote, originally posted by nothing-leaves-stock »

nice shawn.

i ain't making fun of you...you scare me hahahahaaaaaa

Thanks Josh & everyone else for the compliments. http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif I had my flamesuit on too

To answer a few questions, whoever gave up the code is right, my hatch just pops open now from the remote, and I do plan to keep the vents in the fog covers just to keep a air supply to my fenderwell filter. I'll keep posting pics as I get stuff done, and feel free to give your advice. I'm gonna try to add some more black in the bay soon.

skyline513 · Mar 7, 2009

Re: (luciano136)

Looks great! http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif

goldn · Mar 7, 2009

car looks good.
are you going to keep the hood black, or go back to red to complete your "theme"?

panzer 2.3 · Mar 7, 2009

Re: (goldn)

Quote, originally posted by goldn »

car looks good.
are you going to keep the hood black, or go back to red to complete your "theme"?

Keeping the hood satin black, I like how it floes into the grille. A europlate is as far as I'm taking the theme.

White5 · Mar 7, 2009

Looks so good. Keep it going

Richthofen aka The Red Baron

panzer 2.3

bagged bunny

Gkap

panzer 2.3

Patr!ck Bateman

bagged bunny

VWReza

CiDirkona

bassmanjosh

nothing-leaves-stock

MkIIICaBriO

suicidesilence

itskv

iDubber.com

luciano136

panzer 2.3

skyline513

goldn

panzer 2.3

White5

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