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The 'Huskster' Wagon ...

Post by Bantum » Sun Feb 02, 2025 2:02 am

Some of you may have seen this :

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More info : https://www.subaru.com/subaru-motorspor ... chine.html

It has some interesting ideas like :

Active Aero

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Digital dash

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Amoungst others, it does some fancy work on the track :

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube ... -wiz-serp#

Cheers, Bantum ...

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Re: The 'Huskster' Wagon ...

Post by El_Freddo » Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:26 am

I’ve got mixed feelings about this build. Yes it’s awesome and it does some awesome stuff. But many ppl froth over it being an MY wagon - but is it?

I see this as being in the same category as the door slammer drag racers. I would imagine that the only MY bits left are the doors, roof, bonnet, grill/lights etc and as little of the outer body skin as possible.

Very different to the likes of Brumbyrunner’s desert racer brumby build - it still has 90%-ish of the original body and upon first glance it actually looks like a brumby. The aero and massive track width really hides the MY body shape on the huskster wagon and makes it harder to distinguish if you don’t know what it was to begin with.

Anyway, each to their own. Their attention to detail is amazing and it truely does some insane stuff which is cool to see. I know there will be ppl that disagree with my comments and bits in my projects - and that’s what’s so much fun about vehicle builds - there are many ways to achieve the end goal, and there are many potential end goals too ;)

Thanks for sharing.

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Re: The 'Huskster' Wagon ...

Post by Silverbullet » Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:46 pm

Overall I think I like it, really took me by surprise they put so much effort building such a monster out of one of these cars. If you see a shot of whats under the "hood" it's just space-frame everything, really amazing workmanship. I think maybe even the whole front comes off as one i.e, hood, guards, grille etc. The roll cage on the inside :o Looks like it could withstand a bomb blast.

Had a hard time picking which parts are still original. The tailgate looks almost un-touched, the tail ilghts, possibly the front grille or they scratch-built a new one to look the same. Thought it was interesting how they made the dash a similar shape to the original touring dash, a nice nod to what it once was.

Hey if it brought this long forgotten model of Subaru back into the limelight for a little bit, how could I not approve :mrgreen:

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Post by Bantum » Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:43 am

Yes I would say that about 99 % of it is a 'reproduction' ( in fibre glass mostly ) of the Wagon - I think the only bit that's original is the tail lights, even then they would have been tinkered with. ( LED's comes to mind ) If you do have a read through some of the info out there on it - its a long list of things that have been done ... 8-)

It has also done some pretty insane track work / jumps etc, although I think Travis scared himself on one jump, as it didn't quite go to plan, with all the areo not playing as was intended. ( It landed heavily nose down from some accounts ) It probably needs some more tinkering to get the right balance.

There's more video of it to trackdown if your into that sort of thing. I found some of the design aspects of it interesting, as it references the USA ski team in the graphics, I also like the digital graphics that go with the dash - recon it would be a ideal swap mod to aspire for those that have an old digi dash that's no longer working.

Will be keeping an eye out for any more updates that come to hand on this one.

Ciao, Bantum ...

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