Part 40! 1968 VW Radical Custom 💥 Ian Roussel Takes The Face Off Of The Bug 👽
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 кві 2024
- Part 40! 1968 VW Radical Custom 💥 Ian Roussel Takes The Face Off Of The Bug 👽
Ian is getting more and more creative on this Volkswagen custom build and takes the face totally off 😱 Ian wants the front hood of the VW to be one piece, but he has to figure out how to reuse hinges to make it work. It didn't come without the struggle, but we liked it...do you? Let us know in the comments.
We are getting close to 100k SUBSCRIBERS! Please subscribe if you haven't and SET YOUR NOTIFICATIONS!
There are no rules in car customization, and if there was a rule it would be to go as far outside of the box as your fabrication skills can take you. Ian envisioned a simple and radical solution to this style of door opening. He walks himself and Jamie through the process, with pretty satisfying results. This is only the beginning. Come journey with Ian out of this world fully into the outer space of KUSTOMS. 🛸 🛸 🛸 🛸
"Car Building Is Fun! Lets keep it that way."~ Ian Roussel
The backstory...
Ian has decided to lower this VW Beetle 6 inches to get it to the ground and start radically modifying this beat up 1968 VW Beetle, but like most things that were once going to find the fate of the crusher, he once again proves you can do some amazing things in your garage with some imagination, fearlessness and a willingness to make mistakes as you create. 🥴
His fascination stems from the seemingly limitless customization opportunities for this vehicle. Join Ian on a wild ride through his mind 👽 as he envisions then fabricates his most radical ideas to date.
Ian worked and studied at a bronze casting foundry as a young man, where he learned to create models, armatures, molds and finished sculptural artwork in all mediums and finishes. Ian is fascinated by the artistic process of sculpture. He brings this knowledge to his car customizations, to his TV show audience, and now he brings it to you, his growing UA-cam audience.
IF YOU ENJOYED THIS CONTENT
🛸 SUBSCRIBE
🛸LIKE
🛸COMMENT
🛸SHARE
🛸SET YOUR NOTIFICATIONS SO YOU DO NOT MISS ANY NEW CONTENT
Music
slip.stream/tracks/753af0d0-b...
Ian's Address📪
I.R. (For Large Packages 📦 Make It Out to Mojave Post Office #122)
PO Box 122
Mojave California 93502
We also have an amazon store for you to shop some of the basics we use at our rural ranch!
www.amazon.com/shop/fullcusto...
Follow Ian and Jamie on Instagram👽
@Full_Custom_Ian
@Mrs_Roussel_
👩🏻🎨Follow Our Artist Who Created Our Hot Rod UFO Design on Instagram
@thechookyhand
👨🏻🎨Animation Done By The One and Only
@corvette.mike on Instagram - Авто та транспорт
I've been watching Ian build cars and things for many years now and to say he takes the road less traveled is an understatement, he builds the road as he go's!!! Don't listen to us goobers with opinions, none of us watching could even begin to do the things you do and that's why we watch to begin with!!! Keep the vision only you have my friend and I'll keep pinchin the cushion to see the end result brother!!! Hang in there with him Jamie, you're doing a great job too!!
Thank you!
Amen!
Best worded expression of your true admirers🤠
Who else just hits the “LIKE” button during the intro…? It’s always great! Keep it coming Ian & Jamie! BTW, I’m with you on the mesh grill, much better off.
He’s on autolike.
There isn’t a single thing to criticize about your work, you don’t have a pattern you build on the fly and still make magic, if you would write your process they would say your crazy it can’t be done yet here you are making magic, keep it going!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Well said !!!👍👍
Plus! No matter what he can say “I meant to do that”
Cheech & Chong up in smoke was the movie!❤💪👍🤘
My mother was the head nurse of labor and delivery and retired as such. I can only imagine what your job was like. Glad you met Ian and glad for what your doing. be happy relaxed and keep on going with whatever you 2 decide to do. your jeep will be incredible.
Ian you are the Best...And Jamie YOU ARE THE BEST TEAMMATE , IAN IS TRULY BLESSED TO HAVE YOU AS HIS WIFE......Much Love and Prayers from Joe in NY
I agree. I love when I hear a husband or a wife make some silly joke and their partner just thinks it's the funniest thing. You can tell there's a real love and admiration there.. If your wife doesn't laugh at your jokes you're either a not funny or b got some things to work through
The reverse then screws it in. We, I mean I learned something new everyday. Ian thanks for the tip.
Lot of innovation in that lil bug. nice work Ian and thank you Jamie !!
I love how well you two do your videos. Lots of laughter in the face of near failure. You keep surprising me with the way your imagination makes something new and real.
The problem solving is the best part of watching Ian work !!! Especially helpful when I've been doing something frustrating myself, I like to sit back and watch some Full Custom Ian as he works through creative problems, it then motivates me to get back to it myself :) -its a reactive process, get stuck in see what happens and react accordingly... so much faster and satisfying for the soul.
Also Bug has some teeth now I like it ;) could be a thing..
As always this was educational and inspirational.
Jamie your comment near the end about Ian possibly getting mad caused him to pause and consider before things got bent and broken. Great maturity and mutual respect displayed by you both. Yet more inspiration, thank you.
Watching you center up that flat stock to the nose piece. Easy method to guarantee 2 surfaces are centered perfectly? Measure each surface width, draw a line at dead center of each. Then just match the center lines to each other. Perfect center every time.
The nose looks excellent and the hinges are so substantial. I can't wait to see the re-enforcement structure under the hood!
Ian is the magic man. He makes the fabrication work and it always comes out great. Thanks for your great imagination. I’m an old street rodder that watched the Barris brothers, and many more for my ideas. Just add you to the list of the great, builders, if a don’t mind. Thanks so much for your inspiration. Look forward to your shows.
Project, after Project, after Project! It's all an adventure for sure. Thank you for sharing all of this. 👩🦳
I don't build cars, but I love your creativity and daring. You are a jazz customiser, if you'll pardon the expression. It's so different seeing you in your place as opposed to working with Victor or Don or Bill. Sending love and respect.
I started watching Ian years ago when Full Custom Garage first appeared on Australian tv. I have always loved watching the way he goes about building the things he does in the way he does. It's a very organic, flow as you go, type of style.
I have a similar style with the things i make. Many of them are made from old scrap or bits and pieces from other things that I'll repurposed to suit what im creating. I dont really have a plan as such, more just a vague idea in my head and a bunch of scrap laying around to fashion it out of.
I dont really know what the finished product will look like or how exactly all the parts will funtion until it's finished and im looking at it.
Im very glad Ian has his own channel yt now. I have enjoyed seeing him work again.
Dear sir, i am in admiration of your thoughts and actions. You are an inspiration to many. With high regards from Gold Coast Australia! Thank you for being you. 🙏
What a great team together … Ian is so creative and skilled at his job . Good to see all his shows . Very interesting !
"Build custom cars, it will be fun!''
It's all about the sense of accomplishment 👍👍
That's pretty slick. Did a similar thing on my v8 bug project. I had a keg under the deck lid for a gas tank cause the V8 was up front. I used the same style hinge and hinges the deck lid away from the car like you did with the front. I had my hinges both facing the same direction though. So if I needed to I could quickly pull the deck lid off. And I just held it closed with hood pins that mounted to the old deck lid hinges.
I wish I had the land next door so I could come and be your assistant. I'll even settle for gofer if it meant being able to hang out with you and watch you create the way you do. Another amazing video! True old school the way it was intended.
Jamie, we don’t buy new things if we can repair and customize the old 20 yr old creeper. Looks like a episode new custom wheels, custom paint and headrest. Cost for new creeper $39.99 cost to customize $1251.23. That’s how we do it.
The bug is looking great, it's coming along quickly, thanks for sharing, all the best to yous and your loved ones
Tacos and beers, she's a definite keeper 🍻
“You come back you hear”, you don’t have to say that twice. Love your work.
It’s coming together, awesome project, thanks for the content
Hahaha. “Eyes only a mother could love”. I’m one of those commenters. 😀
Really enjoy your inventiveness. Always a highlight when I see your videos.
So enjoyed today's time with ya'll !
You could feel the frustration with that hinge mounting !!! Motha trucka !!!
best channel ever!
On alot of Beetle models, the windscreen washer bottle was hooked up to the spare wheel for pressure.
If not checked regularly you would have a flat tyre with your spare wheel…
Hi Ian, The VW has a face only a mother could love. Canadian Tire used to sell a Rolls Royce front clip for VWs. It looked cool. You should Google the images of that front end. It loooked good in the catalogue. So put on a happy face. Take care.
That little pocket is for the windshield washer.
Kool idea on the hood little more reinforcing , sick sick sick!!
Man I do t mind watching one build at a time. I appreciate that u have multiple to keep content while waiting on parts and idea flow either way thanks for what u do
Keep it up! Love watching you work. Really want to build one of my creations but living in wet and miserable UK I have zero motivation unless we get a heatwave which is apparently a bad thing considering so called global warming........... But I live for the sun and the hot weather!
Ian, great work and methods. I like the way you explain and demonstrate all the details. It feels like I'm right there in the shop with you. Thank you.
On the bug bonnet. I reakon make the narrow eye fixed in place and use bonnet pins for the other piece like race car inspired.
Up in Smoke 💨
Ian is such a decent guy love the way he works.i would be happy too follow in his foot steps.
kove your honesty and problem solving . its incredible how great its looking
Also a chin spoiler may be the answer to the front. No grill just a lower spoiler. It would flow with the rear fender spoilers.
The tilt open front end is really cool
GREAT videography!!!! 🐭in your pocket. LOVIN' how that went together.
As a young classics lover, 6:31 that is the spare wheel lower tub.❤
I like the way that hood and front end pivots forward, really cool!
Excellent guys 😊cheers 🥂 lol
Ian, reminds me of my younger days. He looks at something not related to the vehicle he's working on. An says to himself, ok this should work, an he makes it work.
That tip about stripping the near hole to then draw the two pieces together by threading into the far piece, was taught to us for bone compression of fractures or osteotomies. Here's hoping that the tacos and beer reach the desired goal and don't go up in Smoke.
Great video great hinges the bug is looking beefy from the front...the welding around the fiberglass almost made it go up in Smoke
Was thinking when you had the hood open and you cut that one hinge free why not weld it while you have it open. And I always measure the frustration level in tools thrown, seeing as there weren’t any clatters of tools against the back wall and then sound of them hitting the floor I can honestly say you kept it all in check Ian LOL. And your assessment of it being a sick little thing when all is said and done was on point Jamie.
Jamie , I can't imagine how much work you put into editing these videos. They are amazing as though I am in the garage/shop with you both. Both your voices are very easy to listen to and understand. Mark
As the frustrations pile up, the easier it gets, because after all the frustration, the problems get figured out. One step closer to the goal, in my book.
My first Baja was a bug eye kit. I’ve had others but the bug eye is still the favorite.
I would love to see you collaborate with Dan from DD Speed Shop some day.
The bug is awesome ,unlike any other!
Love the look of the front clip
Watching things you do just fall into place as you go is probably as fascinating for you as it is for the rest of us.
Looking good 👍 👌 I love the bug! I felt Ian's tension step back eat a taco and drink a beer 🍺 THANKS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO WATCH 👊👽🤘
Ian it’s awesome hang in there the force is with you as well as us.
That bug be l👀king good 👍
Stacey Keech 🌿🌿💪🏼
Mills Watson was the actor who looked out the zipper
Another great day of work. Enjoy watching every rime. Have a good week. Marc from Australia
Thanks for sharing 😀👍
I think this is my favourite build that you have done. It is awesome.
Working as you do for all the world to see has to be a bit maddening for you at times. If things aren’t going well for us we can just shout out a few cuss words and go on. You could edit that stuff out but I think you handled the situation there very well. Much respect to you. Bug is looking awesome.
Maybe round bar frame under the tilt front end fiber glassed in will help? That car is going to look sick!!
Come on fans. Let’s crowdshare across all social media to get petrol heads joint Ian on UA-cam. Only 4k needed. Him and J deserve to get more recognition and income for their efforts❤🎉
That is an incredible one off never to be seen again . priceless.
Ian maybe you should use a setup similar to the door mechanism. Push hood forward and then tilt. Similarly to the truck you did for was it Bill. Air rams with flow controls would work great on that.
Nice tip with the screw. Oh yeah, did not notice the grinding with the cutoff wheel.
You two are just pumping these videos out. I love them. It's such a treat to see a new one posted.
Cheech and Chong up in smoke! The bug is looking great! keep on keeping on Ian!!
The Ol' Flip Front hood... A fave thing of Ian's cars. Nice progress on the front end today! In the TV Series FCG, you missed all the cool development of HOW TO setup and tweak the critical elements. That's why it's great to watch live, as Ian takes the steps in constructing these fixtures. It's very satisfying to witness the stuggle, and creative process, with the ultimate payoff when it ends up finally working.
🎉🎉😊
Cool plan 😎 people need to wait for it 😂😂😂
I am so loving it!! This bug is gonna be so badass!
Hi Ian
Love the video ! She’s really coming along👏👏👏👏 I am so looking forward to the Eureka moment you are going to have using my Curve Huggr 12 inch sander on the hood. I want to see a big smile and perhaps you could shout “ It’s the holy grail of sanders!” Or “OMG sands 2 Curves at the same time!” Happy sanding ! James
As an old fabricator I watch you work so hard and you have a touch!
Looking great & it’s always good to see that everything doesn’t go to plan first time 😉 that’s the real world 😊
It really is!
Love your sculpture!
Have you named this creation yet?
May I suggest "bondo buggy" or
"Hello kitty-hair"😅
Closing in fast on a 100K. No wonder with videos like this. Mojave magic...
iTs looking so freakin cool. its my fav of the current projects..
Great idea for the hood. 👍
Thanks guys another great episode 👍👍
Don't get to mad at it stuff happens and you are the man to fix it. This is a very cool build hope you pick a motor that this ride deserves. Man can't wait to see it finished.best of luck god bless ❤.
Yes that was the washer insert. It was in the middle of the spare.
I love watching you Guys great entertainment make me and great projects thanks very much keep up the good work
Reminds me of a Bugeye Sprite.
hell yeah! tilt front end! classic Ian touch dig it!
More VW content! yesss
My first car was a bug eye baja also... and 45 years later i still own a bug eye baja....no wonder i can't get a date...lol. fun cars.. that space is used for the wiper squirter reservoir and also the brake fluid reservoir on 67 and earlier bug
Tacos and beer is a pretty cool date. You two are something else lol 😂
Very good.part 41 pleased ! 🙏😅
I'll say this much, nothing you guys do is ever boring!! Enjoy your Tacos!!
I have to remember the “Tacos & Beer” line. See if I have any success. Good work
Can’t wait to see this cool ride finished! It is turning out amazing
I ripped my jeans SITTING in my truck driving home to NJ from SC, in the same place... luckily I had a second pair. Changing in my truck while waiting for the Cape May Ferry was fun.
Awesome video buddy...bug is coool...keep on keeping in on..cya next time
The answer to the quiz for the pocket, is for the windshield washer reservoir 🙌