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Posted 1/9/2008 11:31:19 PM


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Ya, I have the 16.5 X 12's on mine. That's what you want. you could hit a pothole and pop the outside tires off the rim with that much weight with the smaller. I'm also in the process of making replica beadlocks like on the original tumbler. I would look into the beadlock possibilities with the rim you get unless you can get ones that go on like the original. The only beadlocks I could find were not anything like the ones on the tumbler. I had to scratch build almost everything external on this car except the standard coilovers, and the external side shocks. Some stuff was kinda like the original, but I wanted exact, I even wanted small brackets to be exact.
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Posted 1/10/2008 12:51:10 AM


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I'm pretty sure that external bead locks like on the movie tumbler are not street legal. They do make internal ones that lock both beads that are street legal. Similar to whats on the origional Hummer.

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Posted 1/10/2008 1:41:58 AM


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Hey Youngbat thanks for the info I appreciate it immensely and I kind of forgot but got reminded by you about the bead locks. I want to get the fake ones that are street legal and I guess I only need to get two of them with the beadlock since only the two outside rims will be seen. Again thanks for the comfirmation of the rim size. BWD
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Posted 1/28/2008 10:53:25 PM


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Bob C.s suit.
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Posted 1/29/2008 12:12:03 AM


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Hey Bob that costume looks great. It looks like you have bodies in the rafters......BWD
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Posted 1/29/2008 11:40:36 AM


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Awesome pics! Well raafters can come in handy...

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Posted 1/29/2008 12:11:39 PM


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More pics.

more pics. I do wish you could see it without the watermark, as it kind of blurs everything.

Doing this car in this garage is like building that costume in a small closet. Not at all comfy, or convenient.

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Nice work Bob, When you are all done that would be great to make the inside of the garage look like the inside of a cave. What have some of your neighbors said about your Tumbler?

How much time do you typically have in one of the bat suits? It looks very labor intensive....BWD

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Ya, I would love to drywall, and model the garage into a cave. But just to have the darn floor nice and clean would make my year. I would first grind the floor back to concrete, then put one of those nice epoxy finishes down, maybe with a some bat motif.

   Yes, you are right these costumes are VERY labor intensive. The armour parts are injected foam latex. In this picture Bob and I are facing a huge oven that I bake tumbler parts, but also bake the foam. it is a 6 part foam. It takes 26qts to fill a torso alone. The mold in the rafters is the master mold used to make my bodycasts for the sculpting, and foam injection. Then I have a 2part polyfoam bodycast used for fitting and sewing the undersuit. It's like a big pin cusion. Then another bodycast is for displaying/storing the suit. The belt itself is  another thread all together. Not sure which is harder the car, or the suit. Most people think of a car as being harder. not sure about that.

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Bob, I'm blown away by your work!! Your attention to detail is remarkable. I sent you a PM with a question.

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