Another What if?
A fellow VWCP forumer asked this question: What if we styled a Volkswagen Rod after WWII fighter planes?
Dean asked “Dennis can you make a fender-less heb muller rod with world war II fighter plane decals? like mustang with shark teeth decal on its nose, apply it on the heb rod. make the heb rod looks like it came from the war with bullet holes on it? or scratches etc..
wire wheels and slammed. gray primer coat, 32 ford roaster split windshield.no roof, white walls, shot down counts( small plane sticker with a cross on it exp: one down, two down,…)
how s it gonna look like……..”
Sound insane? I thought about it for a while and asked myself, wouldn’t it be strange to apply American fighter plane graphics onto a German car? Wouldn’t it be better, or at least, more appropriate to use graphics from a Heinkel, Junkers, Stuka, or Messerschmitt?
The more I thought about it, I decided that it would really look cool with the shark teeth and bullet holes. I patterned it after another American Warbird (not a P51 Mustang) the P40 Tomahawk. The shark teeth graphics is more closely assosiated with this plane than on the Mustang.
It also seemed a natural fit to apply the “teeth” to the front quarter panels. Wide whites on red wirewheels add another hot rod element to this ride. Red “tuck and roll” upholstery offers minimal comfort for running inside “enemy territory” and after adding the bullet holes and the JJ “kill” count, the look is finished.
