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Well i normally post in the BMW Projects topic on Eurocca.net (http://forums.eurocca.net/showthread...=17736&page=15), and regularly poke around on SAU for hints and tips for my RB26'd BMW, so it's nice to get creative on something a little different.

My father in law owns a cabinet making business, so one day we decided to start making my 2 year old son's christmas present.

The theme is "Lightning McQueen" from the pixar movie "Cars".. and my son's favourite character. McQueen is a bright red C6 Covette built for the racetrack.

The bed has been CNC routed from MDF, and all edges rounded with a hand router. The wheels are sandwiched pieces of MDF (thicker tyres on the rear of course!!) and have even been installed with ball bearings as my son loves to spin anything with wheels.. i guess he gets that from his dad!

Once constructed we painted the entire bed in 2 pack red base coat, then masked off the areas where the lightning bolt is and painted those areas in yellow base coat. Then we layed down the pinstripe around the edges of the lightning bolt and sprayed 2 pack clear over the entire thing (this way my son won't be tempted to try and peel up the pinstripe while he's lying in bed).

My wife grabbed some stickers from the internet and printed them onto label paper and cut them out by hand.

There's about 30 hours in this bed and hopefully my son will fit in it for a few years before we have to think about doing another one! me thinks F1 theme next!!

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