Joe Handley

Finally got my Traxxas E-Revo put back together last night, last ran nearly 5 years ago and has been in pieces for 4 years. Upgraded to their new 6s brushless system that went into it’s successors as well as a bunch of parts from the 2nd Gen truck. Then we were able to find Dad a 2nd Gen truck off eBay for half what I sent resurrecting mine and it is a BEAST with the higher voltage batteries that were included in the box! I was only running half throttle here and was afraid to try full throttle, put in training mode for Dad almost immediately.

Haven’t seen it in years, but there used to be a mid 90’s Escort Wagon around here that had an Excursion badge on the hatch and a gigantic clamp on tail pipe extension.

It definitely has the right stance for one of those!

Yeah, between these and GM’s new EV SUVs, I’m not sure if the roads over there are big enough. They’re all massive.

Just saw a load of Cybertrucks on my home from work today. Wasn’t that impressed.

I’m astounded that it’s still solid enough to not fall out of it as you’re sitting down into it!

Thought I read somewhere that it was inspired by a car that had no hood sides running at a lake bed and had an engine failure. There were flames coming off the engine and down the sides of the body, which fave somebody the idea.

It would at least help on the skill part, hopefully impart the need to keep the phone and latte in the center console while driving one.

Yeah, I’ve seen videos of wrecks from lack of talent compared to HP or just plain stupidity/entitlement, enough to make me think that a real drivers Ed and/or mandatory high performance driving experience type classes should be mandatory above 200-250hp and/or above 5000lbs.

That might be a greater dig at the riders😉😄

I’m looking forward to this one!

I’m beginning to think that is a good idea in general, but especially with some of the large, high powered, and heavy vehicles, be it internal combustion or EV. Saw a video about the new Escalade IQ, it’s a full sized SUV that weighs 8600lbs, can reach 60mph in under 5 seconds, and is so large that it’s 24” rims don’t look cartoonishly big on it. Make me a bit nervous to be around one of those or the new Charger EV (5600lbs) and not knowing what kind of driver is behind the wheels of vehicles like that……especially if I’m a pedestrian or I get a bicycle and start riding again.

Possibly, though I nearly got in trouble with only 146hp and FWD with my first car, turbo came on and the car tried ripping the wheel out of my hand.

That is good to know!

Funny you said that, as Dad and I were getting into his minivan after buying my second of this kit as well as another Black Beauty Imperial kit, I told him I was probably going to pick more of these Merc kits up as I find them if the price is decent.

I started digging into one of mine yesterday.

I’m pretty sure this was meant to be an easy to build snap kit for Ford to run their version of the Make and Take on the Auto Show circuit. I bought the 1st Gen kit a couple weeks ago and it’s got the more typical detail for one of the Revell snap kits,

This kit being a curbside is why I bought a couple, don’t have to mess with the engine and should be easier to get really low. The body lines look pretty nice and I do like that the trunk is part of the body (as I do with the Revell Merc) as I just really don’t care for the fit of the trunk on the AMT kit. The skirts are molded on too, which is ok and can always be worked around if I want to do something different too.

Just picked a couple of these up, thought that they might make for a couple nice curbside lead sled builds.

Was just listening to Meatloaf on the way home from the gym tonight!

There’s no rule, but lots of the BroDozer-ish truck builds usually have at least no front drive shafts, some probably due to excessive joint angles, if they even get driven outside of on and off trailers.

Getting further along on the truck today and it’s going about where I want it to look. got the doubled insides made and cement is curing right now.

We got a package of Evergreen 20”x8”x.080” Black Sheet Styrene and started messing around with the bed bar I mentioned earlier, this is just the beginnings of it here as it was just roughly trimmed out from the sheet with the help of a mechanic pencil, Harbor Freight Square, and one of my box cutters from when I worked retail. I’ll probably dig a bit deeper into it this weekend.

Thanks, I sketched up what I may do for that bed bar and edit into this post later, any possible Widebody extensions may have to be improvised at the desk. Here’s a rough sketch of my plan on the bed bar, kinda Chevy Avalanche looking, if I may be honest though. Sorry about the location, it was a spur of the moment shot after grabbing a bite to each between work and the gym.

This years club build project to be done by the 2nd Saturday of December this year and we’re all building the Revell Make and Take 2017 Ford F150 Raptor kits that the club was able to acquire. Dad and I weren’t able to get ours until last weekend since we weren’t able to go the the December ‘23 meeting/Christmas party due to me catching Covid right before it and then some fairly nasty winter weather in January. We’ve been scratching our heads to try and figure out what to do and I finally figured mine out today after running across a video of the RTR F150 Street Truck as envisioned by drift racer Vaughn Gettin Jr that could be a daily driven truck, but also capable of being off roaded (including jumps!) and as well as drifted, plus with it being bagged using a parts of their own King Shocks, and Air Lift Suspension, it could be raised or lowered for the purpose at hand. https://www.speedhunters.com/2015/09/the-ultimate-fun-haver-rtr-ford-f150/ Here it just popped together so I know what I’m starting with. What’s not pictured is what I did next, which is where I started by filing the parts of the chassis where the axles clip in into it so I could have it fully droop out when lifted off the table top and sitting low when on it’s tires. Once that was done, I put the body on the chassis minus the interior and bed to measure how far above the chassis plate the axles would sit. After I finished all of the above, I stuck the interior/bed tub back in the body and check out the fit, which worked out better than I planned on! Debating about making my own Widebody fenders for it and not sure what is out there for appropriate aftermarket or kit sourced wheels and tires that might work in place of the box stock stuff. Also debating about making some sort of faux can extension/roll bar to the bed out of .080 styrene as well.