Joe Handley

The only one I've seen of those vans that came with the kit was the early 70's issue like the Fire Van that could be built as an ambulance, passenger van, cargo van, or fire chief's van.

Get rid of the flames and swap the wheels, that would look like a concept car!

uhuh

If you're asking about the "Fun in a Box" models Ed, they're 1/32 scale.

Shouldn't be much difference in the NASCAR Hudson, didn't they just add paint to a street car at that point?

Whoa, as long as the extended cab long bed is when lowered, that crew cab must look a couple miles long

Did you look at them at the show Lownslow, hard to believe that they're so tiny and work that well?

Heh, Really? Haven't seen him since our last comp when he suggested not throwing my comp rig into the lake........I'm wondering if that was sound advice BTW, it was good to meet you Gregg!

Don't know if that would be street legal here in Illinois (got roads around here that would high center on ), but it sure looks like a neat little A!

Dude, stop by the crawler course and say hi, I'll be the fat guy with glasses and a beard in a HobbyTown USA shirt BTW, that goes for everybody who will be going to the show tomorrow too!

Yup, I had a chance to talk Rich Trujillo, who works for Losi and developed all of their crawlers, and he's working on things like longer drive shafts and such for this neat little (and I mean little!) rig. I was even talking with a friend of mine who is a fellow SCRC member and a model train nut about how these could be used to make functioning G-Scale Highrail trucks...........I can just see the highrail gear being a total pain to make work too

I just missed talking to you Gregg, I see you stopped by the SCRC booth too. Are you going to stay in town all weekend too?

Hehe, I've thought about using bed liner on some of the lexan "Trans Am" bodies to make the car look like it's got a vinyl top and I've used the stuff on a few crawler bodies too.

wow, that almost makes a Pontiac Aztek look acceptable

The clay was formed to follow the lines of the car and the only areas that aero would have been affected was at the leading edge of the car where the clay rose about an inch above the sheetmetal and wasn't tapered much, then when the clay was removed, they stuck it in bins and threw those in the back seat of the car. They also set the test up so that it was only at highway speeds, no stop and go. If there had been some stop and go involved, it should have hurt the average. Kinda hurt watching that car hit bumps and rises in the road, you could see the car hitting the bumpstops hard enough to get the sidewalls of the tires to flex I'm feeling a bit ornery today, think we should all write in and suggest having a vinyl top put on hte car to see how that affects the cars mileage too

http://www.losi.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=LOSB0236 I guess the track width is just about right for the Aoshima Hilux and MPC/AMT '88-'98 Chevy truck kits

I thought that was interesting, but I wonder how much of the suspension drop over 800lbs of clay gave the car aided in that mileage too

Yup, and some neon paint too!

Ne nice to see, hopefully it'll get more of an audience that the US version in the late 90's.

Haven't seen the movie yet, but Taken is suppposed to have one nasty car chase where Liam Niesen is driving a Jeep Cherokee.

Just thought of another one, the Barricade chasing Bumblebee in the first Transformers movie!

real!!!!

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned the big rig demo derby in "Black Dog" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS3ELwIPQVY

I remember that one, how many doors are you going to leave on it

I'll be going the friday as a HobbyTown employee and on Saturday as a Suburban Chicago Rock Crawler member (we'll have a good sized course there and having a competition on saturday ) There were more models there last year than the year before, but Tamiya opted out last year too.