The Zhang Heng, a Prius-class Shuttlecraft

That's as good an explanation as any. Evidence:

1. My favorite Star Trek is the movie era. Also my favorite Enterprise, phaser, and uniforms.

2. My background novellette, Star Trek: Synergy is set in that period.

Actually, beyond that, the car is a tribute to Star Trek in general, not a specific construction, so I am willing to include elements from all series. I also have little tributes to Star Wars, 2001, Back to the Future (Flux Capacitor in progress), WALL-E, James Bond, Dr. Who, etc. placed through out the interior.

Don't phase me, bro'.

 

I bought an extra set of mirror covers. I put them on the car, and used the old beat up set for the fabrication.

The phaser heads were cut off of Phaser II water pistols with a Dremel tool, the cheapest phasers I could find. The back sides of them were shaped with Xacto knife and sandpaper, finished with the sandpaper taped to the surface of the mirror covers.

Holes were drilled in the phaser heads and mirror covers.

The phaser heads are actually upside down from the pistols. The silver grill on the top of the pistol was removed, cut to size and epoxied to the new "top" of the phaser head.

The graphics were done in Photoshop, and printed out and applied at a professional graphics shop.


MORE TO COME !!

 

I.e. grill blocking.

Done.

WARNING: This discussion leads here.

 

After receiving clearance from the Bureau of Temporal Investigation, I have assembled and installed a Flux Capacitor. When I get this baby up to 88 MPG, you are gonna see some serious $#!+ !!!.



It also explains how I got a number of other alien artifacts into the shuttle: R2D2, WALL-E, Robby, sonic screwdriver, HAL 9000, etc.

 

Probably not going to make it, but I could stop by you on my way to or from Trekfest, in Riverside, Iowa.

 

Hey, I was named Geek of the Month by Geek Monthly Magazine in 2008.

 

For my browncoat friends:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65f_0Zu-5Y"]"Curse you and your sudden but inevitable betrayal!!"[/ame]

One more bit of awesomeness that I have been working on this winter awaits warmer weather.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

 

As promised, and after years of thought and planning, dealing with four contractors, one false start, spending more money than I care to admit publicly, and waiting several weeks for warm enough weather for the installation, I have finally replaced THIS:

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with THIS:

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Nobody wants to be seen driving a Toyota around these days anyhow.

 

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