Joe Handley

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!

Isn't that about where Micheal Waltrip stood for his career?

Considering a friend of mine is building a supercharged 4.8 for his '04 Silverado and contemplating turbocharger for his '07-'09 Silverado DD, that could be interesting to see. As for the Hennessey car, I've heard that they are pretty much a dirty word in Viper circles for the way thwy treat their customers.

Aren't there 1000+ hp LS motors out there already?

Haven't built a plastic model of one yet, but I do have one of Tamiya's rc Mini's I detuned it after that last video was shot, it was a little too high strung!

Yup, as everybody has stated, the originals were usually the real deal, but as they got into racing the things and moving away from the from standard frame and leaf springs to tube frames and coilovers with multilinks, they went to the lighter, more easily replaced fiberglass.

How wide were those strips Dave?

I can't imagine what those massive side doors would be like to align Ed, how many guys would that take?

Ah-Ha! I was begining to think I was imagening things with that part of the side door Looked like it was backwards (as in flipped or reversed) from what the later 1/1 Vans I grew up around had The roof rib thing is a head scratcher, since the addition actually made the kit more accurate I'd be surprised of they changed the dash then too Ed, if they didn't bother updating it for the A-Team version back in the day............ BTW, thanks for the input!

I got to thinking a while back about a Jr. High teacher I had, when both my little sister and myself went to that school, he had a Gremlin (I think it was somewhere between '72-'74) for a work car. It was just a tired looking old Gremlin in a Lemon Yellow color, but it ran and he drove it no matter what the weather was. I ran into him once not long after graduating from high school and he was now driving an early 80's 4 cylinder Fox Mustang, I aksed him what happened to the Gremlin and he told me he had to scrap it. The car still ran and all, but his wife and daughters were so imbarassed by it and finally made him get rid of it, so he switched to what was his late mother's Mustang for a work car............sadly that Mustang seemed sooooooo souless when compared to what I remember of that Gremlin.

No problem Mike, I was thinking of the issues of this kit I've bought ( a few older than me too) all had the sliders. I am curious on the side and roof ribs on the 1/1 '71-'77 Vans now though................now where is Ed at

Finally got around do shooting some A-Team vs Vantasy comparison shots http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v698/bjoehandley/Plastic%20Models/Vans/A%20Team%20vs%20Dirty%20Donny%20Vans/