{"id":75,"date":"2025-04-21T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:45:09","slug":"cooler-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/cooler-convertible\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooler convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4993-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set <a href=\"https:\/\/brickset.com\/sets\/4993-1\/Cool-Convertible\">4993<\/a> was so good I bought it twice. A slightly chunky coupe with a sweet convertible action, opening doors and hood, but oh! what a disappointment in the engine bay. I decided to believe it was deliberate, this was <em>Creator<\/em> 3 in 1 after all, the designers leaving us space to join in and do better. And so I set off on another overly ambitious project \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Engineering.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan was simple. Fit a V8, steering and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.layitlow.com\/threads\/gif-images.643649\/\">air suspension<\/a> inside the Cool Convertible body, without buying any new parts. After a lot of experiments I gave up a bit frustrated. My 2&#215;2 pneumatics were just too big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20200408_211421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few years later I came back with relaxed goals. A stud wider? Sure. Poppin? Doesn\u2019t suit this style of car anyway. But that supercharger? Has to be part of it! 5 weeks of fun fiddling and the <a href=\"\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/coolest-convertible\/\">Coolest Convertible<\/a> was done. And a few weeks after that I did manage to fit the engine and steering inside the stock 4993. Maybe I could have bought some of the modern 1&#215;1 footprint pneumatics but at this point I was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/exploded-view-v1_9-pp.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, my hood was way cooler than the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/v2.bonnet-up_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can download <a href=\"https:\/\/rebrickable.com\/mocs\/MOC-73402\/dougalf\/cooler-convertible\/#details\">instructions<\/a> from Rebrickable (but ad block is advised)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1244\" height=\"1064\" src=\"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-20-at-22.37.17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, it was a tight fit \ud83d\ude1d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kit so good I bought it twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moc","tag-instructions-included"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lego.dougal.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}