New Prototype Kit Car...

[BladeX1]

Stevie Mojo said:

If you end up with a car that resembles the one in the pics and stick a nice V8 in it as you intend then that is gonna be a rather nice motor. I'd love to see it happen.

Hey thanks guys… I am working on some build videos too. Check out the link below it’s my first one. I have 700 gigs of video so far but its very time consuming to go through it and mesh it all together. So I just did a simple time-lapse version of me installing the forms.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJFSXIP6Vw8

- Neal

[BladeX1]

Hey everyone… thanks for the support on this. Yeah I am definitely not trying to advertize here, the car is nowhere near ready for that yet. I am not sure why he chose that snippet to suggest that I was advertizing, as I was simply trying to say that the project has become pretty technical for your typical home kit car build. Nothing is set in stone yet… I am trying to make it as simple as possible.

My main goal is to share my experience… when I started this project I found it difficult to find information on how to do something like this. So I made a commitment to myself to share what I learn so that others would be inspired to do the same. There are so many great designs that I see by non professional artists and I want to show that anyone can do this.

…anyway, I should have a new video up soon starting the foam process.

PS… and Yelp I am from Texas. Yeehhaaww!!...

- Neal

[BladeX1]

Paul,

I respect your opinion… this car is not for everyone and your not going to hurt my feelings if you don’t like it. The images at the beginning of this thread are probably more puff than the current design. But over the months it’s come along way and I have learned a tremendous amount from this project.

Although I do plan to sell and market this car (which I had always intended to do even when it was going to be a full kit car) it was my goal from the start to share the information and development process. I want others can learn from it and also to develop relationships with people trying to do the same thing.

One thing that continues to bother me is that there are people out there building these cars (such as your friend) and they keep everything secrete and are afraid of someone steeling their design or ideas. Then one day they release it to the public and hope to sell one for some ridiculous price. Now I’m not suggesting that this is your friend’s intention, it’s just the common strategy these days. And it seems everyone is so focused on making the next supercar… no one seems to just build a nice sports car anymore that’s affordable.

I decided to do it differently and make my project public and show the whole process from starting in a garage at my house, to getting attention on the web and moving into a real facility and maybe next picking up sponsor or funding who knows. So far I have funded this project 100% and will continue until it’s completed. Anyway my point is that I simply want to make it public from start to finish I don’t believe anyone has attempted this and this is the YouTube era so why not right?...

You can call it marketing but I will call it following my dream.

PS. Here is part two of the video… I will have another one today or tomorrow.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

- Neal

[BladeX1]

Hello everyone…. I have uploaded another video. Me and my partner finished up the front (still in rough form) and began work on top of the hood. We did a lot in a few hours and I stayed late to finish out some details. I was major tired and my arms felt like wet noodles. This video is a little longer and I talk and explain more details about the car at the end. This is my first video project like this so I will work on not repeating the same words over and over but my brain was fried and I was probably dehydrated due to the heat and snorting foam. This weekend I will try to get a few different camera angels so you can see more detailed action… lol.

Anyway hope you enjoy… let me know what you think.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Edited by BladeX1 on Saturday 14th June 01:03

[BladeX1]

Ok here is another video… part three of the foaming process. Eric and I spent about 13 hours on Saturday working non stop on the side fenders. The design is starting to take shape now, but there is still a lot of detailing to do and we probably will not do that until the all the foam is in place and generally shaped. I start this video talking about the Cobra that I referred too in the last episode of this build. I also changed the camera angles a little. Enjoy… and feel free to ask questions.


http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

- Neal

[BladeX1]

Hey guys,

Thanks for the encouraging words… we are moving quickly on all this and have some big things in the works. Right now me and my partner heads are spinning from all the attention and opportunities that are presenting them selves. So we are working like mad men… I have posted more videos below, some of which you have probably already seen I think the last one I posted was part 4…


Video 1: Building the Forms for body buck.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 2: Foam Process.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 3: Foaming part 2
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 4: Building the Bailey Blade part 4 – Foaming part 3
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 5: Building the Bailey Blade part 5 – Foaming part 4
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 6: Building the Bailey Blade part 6 – Foaming part 5
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 7: Building the Bailey Blade part 7 – Foaming part 6
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

Video 8: Building the Bailey Blade part 8 – Foaming part 7
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Building-the-Ba...

- Neal