Boise State Bronco 4wheeler (peg perego thundercat)

[gwinnythepooh]

Here is my project. Over the next week I am turning my and my sons beloved pp thundercat into a bronco fan machine.

I started tear down and paint today however the 2 year old is none to excited to give up his daily driver so this will be interesting... So I'm starting with non essential parts.

Here it is original:



Here's prep on brush guard and rack


After


Before and after shocks

[gwinnythepooh]

Making some serious headway in the last couple days.

I forgot to take a pic of the wheels- but they are silver like the brush guard. I will reasemble the wheels tomorrow and get the frame back up off the ground.

Here is some paint pics. It turned out amzing. I am not sure the pics do it justice. the seat is beyond cool. So in a couple days after it cures in the sun I will wet sand and final clear.
I did Krylon Fusion with the Adhesion spray, and then Rustoleum clear over it. Is it too early to feel lucky that I have no webbing or wrinkle?

[CJB]

WOW!! That turned out well. The seat looks GREAT!

[gwinnythepooh]

Thank you! Waiting to put it back together may kill me!

[Deere Green]

Turned out great!!

[gwinnythepooh]

I know that I "hurried" my process a bit, but I figured with sun baking in 100 degrees for 3 days was good.
I wet sanded and then cleared again for a brilliant shine. It looks soooo good. Theres a few flaws here and there where I or my husband screwed something up, but barely noticeable. One part was a mud flap trying to get it back on the paint chipped. But I expected that... those things are flimsy plastic and I didn't figure they'd hold paint well.

I am really impressed with my first project!! :)

I still need rear hubcaps and if I can ever locate some other parts, like the shifter I will replace those. A big thanks to Sea Stork for the new grips!!!!!!

[gwinnythepooh]

And no worries, No one will be riding it till this weekend! It will "bake" for a few more days

[spyder384]

That turned out awesome!

[gwinnythepooh]

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm17 ... 11d902.mp4

[AlexL]

nice paint job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tlangely69]

Looks great! Another new mommy painter here. How did you get all the decals for your team and the F/R stuff done? I'd love to see if I can paint my 18 month olds ATV for a TN theme. My husband would DIE!

[gwinnythepooh]

Thanks! I am so in love with it! Everyone that sees it is just in Awe! Its parked in my front yard with a big flag on it for tonights game!

So for the Team logos and the Chrome head on the front, those are stickers/decals from the team shop (school bookstore etc) and then the original gauges I took to a decal shop, they photo shopped the old decals that I had scanned and made me new silver ones. They custom made the flames for me. I spent about $30 on decals and stickers total, but it was necessary.
So I Painted everything, then applied all the decals, then clear coated over them all so that they never fade or peel. It looks amazing.

For the seat I used White Pinstripe as the yard stripes and again cleared over that whole thing.

[Sucker Punch]

Wow that turned out really nice. I love how you did the football field on the seat. nice touch! BTW, GO DAWGS! Sorry, I gotta pull for the SEC. :P

[Sucker Punch]

YIKES! I was showing one of my girls the pics of your project and asked if she liked it and she replied, "I like the boy" :o AH!! I told her she was too young to like boys(she's only 2 1/2) :lol:

[gwinnythepooh]

Haha! Thanks. My son is a cutie as well. :) He'll be 3 in November.

The seat was a crazy feat but sooo paid off. I love it.

This game is stressing me out. But I bleed Blue and Orange. 8-)

[hungngo]

Thanks! I am so in love with it! Everyone that sees it is just in Awe! Its parked in my front yard with a big flag on it for tonights game!

So for the Team logos and the Chrome head on the front, those are stickers/decals from the team shop (school bookstore etc) and then the original gauges I took to a decal shop, they photo shopped the old decals that I had scanned and made me new silver ones. They custom made the flames for me. I spent about $30 on decals and stickers total, but it was necessary.
So I Painted everything, then applied all the decals, then clear coated over them all so that they never fade or peel. It looks amazing.

For the seat I used White Pinstripe as the yard stripes and again cleared over that whole thing.

could you please send me the scanned gauges.... i would like to get stickers made the same way..

thank you tony

[gwinnythepooh]

Replaced a few of the chewed pieces thanks to Biehlm!

New Shifter

OLD Pedal Assembly with Rocker Switch

Changed over to larger pedal with Plunger switch
didn't line up perfectly but oh well...Way Better

Now has all 4 hubcaps! YAY!!! (and the fog lights!)

[gwinnythepooh]

Very sad moment here in pooh corner.

Thundercat was sold this weekend. I thought I was going to curl up in a ball. It was like breaking up with your first love.

That seat belonged in the smithsonian :lol:

It went for $250.

This was my first pw, my first peg, my first problem, my first paint job, I loved it more than a lot of things...

It's going to be a long grieving process.

[wiggy353]

I'm sure it was hard for you, but what about your son??

[gwinnythepooh]

He was just saying "wheres she taking my 4Weller" lol.

Hes over it already, luckily he's got 8 more parked in the garage. He's getting his off road machine- the Eliminator and we also got a bigger Peg 700. Thus why this had to go. Sad Panda

[Biehldm]

I thought you would never sell that.Glad I had those spare parts to fix it up.I just got me another thundercat for 50.00.It is almost perfect, and it came with a free jd tractor.Rough but it runs and can be fixed.

[gwinnythepooh]

I know right! It was horribly sad but it just didn't make sense to keep it.m

Do you have pics? I'd love to see it. I'd take another one in a heartbeat to fix