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Brütal Bus Will Race To Soap Box Derby

By Owen Good on August 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM

A team of three college friends is building one bad-assed model of Brütal Legend’s Ironheade Tour Bus, and will race it in a soap box derby in Los Angeles. Holy catfish, they have actually cast molten metal for this thing.

The team, Christine Phelan, 25, Andrew Cook, 25 and Luke Nalker, 30, all met as students at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which explains their robust creativity and commitment to pulling this off. In July their design submission (above) was accepted by the 2009 Red Bull Soap Box Derby in L.A., which races on September 26.

Best part of their blueprint was this answer: “Acoustic Warning Signal – How does the horn function? The power of ROCK! Yeeeaaahhh!!!”

The team’s put together a bunch of pictures showing their work in progress—it’s a big love song to sparks flying, glowing hot metal, welding masks and wide smiles. They just got a shout-out from Brütal Legend’s Twitter, which is how we heard of it. Go check out the blog, there’s simply too much awesome to show it all here.


Brütal Bus! [blog, thanks Greg the Allegedman]

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  • Rictor
    August 30, 2009 at 5:16 PM

    the only metal thing I saw was molten stuff.

    Rictor

  • ryan_h
    August 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire:

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  • -itis
    August 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    That is just pure awesomeness!

  • Curse Lily
    August 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: （‐＾▽＾‐）

    Curse Lily

  • Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a
    August 30, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    @Curse Lily: Lol @ the Pyew sounds. You really are a child at heart.

  • Curse Lily
    August 30, 2009 at 5:29 AM

    I'll say three things about this

    1)AWESOME ＼（＾Ｏ＾）／

    2)The last pic with Sean Feeley(i think that's he's name?)made me laugh [like big-ass space-marine guns. Pyew pyew pyew!] ^_^

    3)Christine is HOT!! >:3

    Good luck to them ^_^

    Curse Lily

  • jeezy103
    August 30, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    Y gtt lv th Dbl Fn Lg tchd

  • ChaoticInfinityX
    August 30, 2009 at 5:22 AM

    The only thing that would make this cooler is if the driver busted out a guitar solo as they drove.

  • Bouzi thinks Homer+Mumu=Sexy!
    August 30, 2009 at 5:14 AM

    If only I was that creative. I guess I'll just stick to learning about drugs.

    Also the note about the teeth eating the spectators on the bottom right corner is pretty funny.

  • tehdorkz
    August 30, 2009 at 5:10 AM

    That is awesome.

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