1989 Hyundai Excel - Luigi's Pizza

[Chuck Most]

This little pile was nearly a decade in the making.

I began building the Academy Hyundai Excel back in 2016, with a mind to build a junky pizza delivery car. While attempting to replicate collision damage, I ended up actually destroying the body. It just took me this long to find a replacement body. 

The chassis and interior are out of the box, with the interior dirtied up and cluttered. It's hard to see through the weird green glass, but a Little Trees air freshener and peace sign medallion hang from the rearview mirror.

The body had the bumpers reworked to resemble a US market 1989 model. I had planned to replace the headlights with sealed beams to make it a US market 1986, but the modifications didn't work out so well last time and I didn't feel like pressing my luck. I think the decals are from the MPC Barris Buggy.

So, here it is. I might dirty it up a bit but as it stands I'm just glad that what I originally thought would be a quick project is finally finished.

[THarrison351]

Looks terrific! My stepfather had one of these back in the nineties. I always thought the name was ironic even if it wasn't spelled the same because it couldn't accel at all. Scarry car in traffic with a top speed of about seventy on a good day.

[Yeah Nah]

Excellent work on those mods to produce this neat job, but 'nearly a decade'? Glad no-one was actually waiting for a pizza to be delivered. ?

[ChrisR]

Cool!

[hct728(Bob)]

Nice to see that! Pretty rare kit, the 1:1 used to be everywhere in Canada back in the day

[slusher]

Great little build , Chuck!         I believe the 77 pinto has some pizza decals…

[stavanzer]

Fantastic Pizza Car.

I did a lot of work on these back in the '90's when I worked at an Acura Dealer. My boss bought quite a few Excels to re-sell at the Auto Auctions. I got to know them well. Truly awful little cars.

Your's is perfect.

Those are indeed the Barris T-Buggy Decals.

[PappyD340]

Very cool pizza delivery car!!