Joe Handley

If you guys think it's big in 1/25, you should have been around the 1/1's! I'm just shy of 6' tall and used to be able to lay across the back seats and really have fold myself much to fit. Quite the vehicle to learn how to drive in too, Dad always figured if you can drive one of these without issue, you should be able to drive just about anything

I want to say the "Fall Guy" GMC and the reissues of that will be the closest to what you're looking for.

I saw a 1:1 Gremlin that looked to be nearly identical to this one last week on the road, and it was just as clean looking as this one.! Only difference I could see was the shade of metallic green it had been painted (kinda like Polmolive detergent, only metal flake)

That just might be worth the cost to drive from here to Belvedere for me.......

That's exactly what I took of it Harry and whole heartedly agree with that message too.

It sounded pretty centered to me too, but I tend to lean to the left and have been leaning more and more since.'08.

That would make for another nice kit to bash with Losi's Micro Crawler and Scaler too!

I'm not sure it's a pro Obama Chrysler ad either, there is a pretty strong anti-partisan politics, just work together darn it! flavor to it though. I liked the Eminem/Chrysler ad from last year, a lot, and think this one is even better still. The Chevy ad was funny (honestly, I think it was a pot shot at the "refuse to buy a GM and to a lesser extent, Chrysler products because of the bailout" crowd), the 500 Abarth ad was very....wow (I won't lie, I kinda dig the little things and wouldn't mind one of Tamiya's 500 bodied M-05's parked next to my Tamiya M-03 Mini Cooper and Traxxas "1/16" Ford Fiesta Rally/Gymkhana car ), but this one had an air of maturity and "We Can do this!" about it with the only hints of it being a Chrysler ad was the tone that sort of carried over from the Eminem ad and the occasional new and partially built Mopars in it prior to the very end.

I'd say around .010 square rod as a rough guestamate.

To get it really low, you'll need to find another kit to steal the front suspension from and maybe flip the rear axle to the yops of thd leaves, which will alsp require that portion of the subframe to be notched.

That's where a hybrid is truely in it's element Harry. The engine can be shut off and the car can be run off the electric motor when in heavy, slow traffic, parking lots, fast food drive throughs, and such. What to me is the big issue with that Civic is the way it's hybrid system is designed in comparison to what GM and Toyota use. Their designs use electric motor(s) are built in as part of thd transmissions where Honda's is bolted directly to the crank shaft so the engine and motor have to spin each ogher when only one of the two is working instead of bring free of each other like the other two systems are. The GM and Toyotas don't have the rotational mass issues the Honda's do on top of the system's addition static weight.

Gotta agree with the other two, it can always be cleaned up and used as a hot rod truck cab.

Yea Virg, it's been shortened, looks like took out the entire section where the side door(s) should be on a 125" wb van. Speaking of the 6 lug set up on it, did the Chevy/GMC trucks from the early 60's-'72 have a 6 lug option that was the same pattern as the more recent GM trucks? That could more easily explain the 6 lug setup on this one.

Am I seeing things, or does that cut down van have a '69 1/2 Six Pack Super Bee/Road Runner hood scoop on the roof? Think that may have started out as a 125" wb van too.

I honestly think they should have fixed the drip rails instead of removing those roof ribs, the tooling could use more of a clean up and resto.

That could have been more of a print setter error or something along those lines.

Just noticed something interesting while watching an A-Team re-run and they were being chased in the van (what else is new, I know), and I noticed that the van used for the chase looked like it had those Addco "coil over" shocks.

A friend of my sister used to have that issue and one day somebody called her folks house wanting to try and sell her something and her mom had finally had enough and told the person on the phone that to commit her the month before

Your thinking is right August, he is.

I have thought about that too Chuck......think the AMT Camaro Concept Car would make a good parts donor?

Judging by the look on his face, the take off probably did too :lol That one poster has spawned a 4 page thread on RC Crawler

You guys have just reminded me of a poster I recently saw http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/Raptorman57/ffdfdc5b.jpg

Kinda got to do that on a 1/1 van too, especially with the mid 80's and newer G-Vans

Mine is Tamiya's M-03 chassis that uses upright shocks and is powered by a Castle Sidewinder with a 4600kV motor and a 4000mAh 2s li-po, even detuned as far as it will go, it's still shockingly fast! Had it at work in November and took it for a quick blast across the lot with a beater body and went to take a couple passes across the lot. A customer came up and asked if I "wanted to race for pinks", and I said "Sure", and crossed 2/3's of the lot in less time than his real car would with the front tires spinning like mad for about 1/4 of that distance.............next thing I heard him say was "never mind........."

Not...........me!