Hey everyone, so over the last really long time, I’ve been working on making my own Ectomobile out of my MINI Countryman. I’m at the point where it’s ok for public consumption, but it’s by no means done! So here are a couple pictures for you…
I know there are still lots of things missing, and I hope to have most of them made soon. (:
Very nice. I just “finished” mine this past weekend so I could take it to my local mini dealership for their annual Halloween party. I took first place, so not too bad. Still much to do though.
Nice ride. I too just dressed mine up for the holidays, with a little help from my six year old. Not perfect, but managed first place at our local dealership’s Halloween Mini costume contest, so we’re off to a good start.
Figure I’ll toss in my MINI too, she’s a Clubman so she’s got a bit of the ‘station wagon’ frame. I’d gotten some compliments on the Ice Blue color even though it’s not the standard Ecto-hue.
Won a MINI dealer’s costume contest last year with tupperware/strobe flashers on the front and an all-PVC frame; this year made it a bit sturdier with a metal luggage-rack frame and ‘real’ lights off a snowplow/tow truck. The lights are mounted to the front of the luggage rails using a metal frame, then held down with pizza-sign magnets.
Oh hey, I got a notification for Kingpin’s reply. So yeah, I custom cut the stripes on my Silhouette (probably Cameo 2, given the age, but whatever). I had to cheat the rear lights, since I had no idea how to do the compound curves, so just made it look “decent” in the software and heat-gunned and cut around the lights to fit.