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Nice mods Walter, came out great?

Oh man John, ya can't tease us like that and finish the WIP without a pic of the goods...lol Really nice build my friend..Cheers

Nice build Danny ! Nice work on the masking and paint?

Love the Floyd Dark Side of the Moon ('73) was pivotal for me back in '76, at 14 it was the most mesmerizing change in anything I'd ever heard.. after I'd heard it, I sought out all things Floyd and Gilmore..and headed down a rabbit hole ...Piper at the gates of dawn, Umma Gumma, saucerful of secrets, Meddle...led to Jethro and King Crimson, Mike Oldfield (whoa), and speaking of Bowie meet Ziggy Take Care all

Really nice build so far John..all of the extra detail will really set this one off. Keep it up ?

Looking good !

Always good to see an update from you Randy ! Superb craftsmanship going on here. Cheers

Well done Tom ..looks good

That is a beauty Nick??

Very nicely done Tomasz! The detail paint work is especially nice. Cheers

Man.. that sits just right, nice job?

I concur

Great looking chop ? Im following this one...what have you decided for the paint work?

Nice conversion!

Nice group of builds??

Very realistic?

Cool Looks like a mini UNIMOG

Nice work ! Looks like its bashed its way through some mangrove stands and croc hangouts..??

Its not plumbers tape, its 'Multi purpose HVAC foil tape'

Well it's been almost 2 years since I lost Riley..and in walks this 3.5 month old stray with no name and no owner looking for her, so of coarse I am fostering to adopt her.. Everyone, this is Ziggy One green eye, one blue, mature beyond her age..loves people, cats, and other dogs? I'm in love Cheers

Picking away at a Stroppe racing Bronco.. The 312T4 and a Nascar chassis '55 Cameo are waiting on the bench... Lost two close friends in the last 6 months to Cancer and it just took the wind out of me. I'm really enjoying following along with your builds Chris ..keep it up?

Looking great Chris?Please dont stop the updates Cheers

Nice progress! The Tamiya paint looks like it laid down fairly well?

So the story goes Back in 1967, Rod Hall, a young gas station owner and four-wheel drive enthusiast, heard about a new event while Jeeping with friend Larry Minor at Pismo Dunes, California. It wasn’t the normal gymkhana that he’d done before, but a 1,000-mile desert adventure in a land with no maps, few petrol sources, and even fewer towns. The two pooled their funds, bought a stock Jeep CJ-5, and mailed in a registration form for the National Off-Road Racing Association’s (NORRA) Mexican 1000. Between the starting line in Ensenada and the checkered flat in La Paz, they dodged tire-shredding cacti, baked in the unrelenting Mexican sun, cleared hill and dale, got lost a dozen times, tossed their tools out (too much clanking around), and ate soggy sandwiches their wives had packed in a cooler. With only a whiskey compass and the sun to navigate by, they somehow made it to La Paz. It was the opening chapter of a carrier that would span five decades, many continents, a number of vehicle brands, record-breaking winning streaks (35 straight, which still stands) and put its lead character in the history books. Rod Hall pulled his championship Ford Bronco, which he won the 1969 Mexican 1000 in, from the Off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame’s museum in Reno, Nevada, and sent it to Samco Fabrication for a full restoration. The Bronco, which was built by Bill Stroppe, has a past is as storied as Hall himself. After Hall and teammate Larry Minor drove it to an overall win in the 1969 Mexican 1000, it was sold, raced, resold, and then retired to a Barstow, California junkyard. Half buried in sand and nearly forgotten, it was discovered by a local race fan and restaurant owner, and put on display in front of a Denny’s. In 2003 it was donated to ORMHOF and found its way back to Hall. Hall remains the only driver to win Baja overall in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. This was unceremoniously plagiarized from Chris Collard @off-road.com written in 2016 Rod passed away in 2019 I flipped the bed tray for the ribs, made a gas tank from sheet styrene, and ground out the back of the grill, added plates to the roll bar (still more tubing for that) rollbar and fender flares from Fireball model works Added the 4" lift from Joseph I will try to build it as the refurbished ride you see in the third pic in first post More coming Cheers

This is the shot I remember seeing in Hot Rod magazine, back in the day... And when Revell came out with a stock Bronco, I just had to build one... The Parnelli / Stroppe Bronco is cool, but the better story comes with the Rod Hall/Larry Minor Bronco...IMHO it just looks better Here's where I'm at so far... Everything not box is from Joseph at Fireball modelworks ... https://fireballmodels.info/auto_main.html ...made the bonnet scoop from a '71 Cuda shaker hood.. More to come ..hopefully Cheers all