Joe Handley

Well, the separate chassis center area for that Revell '34 Ford Snapper appear to be adaptable to the Willys chassis! I'll get pics after work or tomorrow.

I grabbed one of the Revell '34 Ford snap kits I had laying around and even an AMT/ERTL '34 Ford glue kit with IFS to will try and use that for some of what I want to do. The Willys chassis appears to be serviceable, if I want to leave it a curb side, but I may need to rework the parts to see what will work.

I'll be honest, I dig the box art.........The kit itself however would have to be frustrating to just get to this point for a kid, took some sanding and reaming with an X-Acto to get some of the parts to go together.

I got this kit for Christmas, it’s not the greatest when compared to the more modern Revell snappers, but an interesting subject. I kinda want make it a shop truck, but not sure what might work best for a starting point.

Just picked this up from my kid Sister today, Dad and I gave this to her for Mother’s Day 2020 and she started having issues with the roller on the right side and bought the next Gen on sale with the money she got for Christmas since they had a fantastic sale on it. I’m going to see what it might take to fix the roller problem and use it for my models and R/Cs! Sounds like a known issue and Cricut has been dealing with the problem, so J’ll probably contact them first.

Merry Christmas!

I don't ever remember a Bigfoot truck of that era from AMT, just the '79 Bigfoot kit. Did they update the body of the kit and just never release the street version from that era?

I've never bought that one, to be honest, it's been out for some time now, think it dates back to before the RC2 days, IIRC.

Hope that 356 has a really good heater in it!

Can't look right now, but there is a guy on YouTube doing this swap with a Corvair and he's already built a Beetle with a Subaru WRX engine and transaxle that is north of 500hp and sketchy looking under power.

Sadly, no, it’s still in the shipping box from WalMart that I received it in. I’m just now sitting next to it since I’m working from home out of the room I had put it in.

Not to mention that the LS-A that was swapped in there is making more power off idle and ramps up as the revs increase where the Subi motor really wasn’t making power until 4K or higher. I did find it interesting that the CTS-V-2 engine and trans were only .5” longer than the flat 4 and STI 6 speed were.

But not as reliable, that’s where the problem was.

I kinda want to see what happens with the Lucid Air cars now that they’re rolling out to their customers. The guy who runs them was a Tesla engineer that got fed up with Musk, left, then started his own company. He’s getting similar numbers with smaller, more efficient drive units and what sounds like better batteries (higher C-Rating, which is a good thing). If their drive units are smaller and more efficient with comparable power and the batteries are a higher C-Rating, that could be better for smaller cars getting converted.

Funny, I ran across a video from a Brian Johnson (of AC/DC fame) with Nick Mason and this car. Mason even took Johnson for a ride in the car too!

Like Venom said, it's all gravity, though I think there might be some pinewood derby like weighting being done with most of the KOTM cars.

Got anybody curious, this appears to be a scene from the Amazon version with 2 other cast members. From what I could find, he was a closer physical match for the character, but I think he may have added some additional mass for the roll.

Yeah, From what I’ve seen, he was closer to the right build to start and he may have hit the gym to get even closer to the correct build.

I’ve been watching this too, having watched the build with them and Andrew Comrie-Picard on Car Saviors, I want to see how this finishes. Not sure how many Hert will be in going forward though, his Mom is hospitalized on the east coast after a brain aneurysm hit her. She’s awake and capable of using a phone to take a pic of him with the Thanksgiving dinner he snuck in for her, too.

I think the Monogram Fiero does too, though unlike the FWD GP and GPX (the turbocharged one), it’s a 1/24 kit.

That has the 4.3l in it from the original Syclone release, which had a turbocharged version of the 4.3l. There have been a few FWD kits that had various versions of the 2.8l and 3.1 pushrod engines. Short of late 60’s-early 70’s Jeeps and Buick GN kits, but I’m not sure if those have much in common with the FWD 3800s if that’s what you need.

They’re 4 videos in on that build, here’s the 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I even remember that original Rolls drift build from years ago on TV that is the jumping off point in the 1st video! I looked on YouTube, but there doesn’t appear to be any footage from that show on there.

Don’t bother with Airgas, last time Dad was in one, there was a sign that stated that they won’t fill them for automotive use and may have eluded to firing any employee caught violating that policy.

They gave a new video fir Thanksgiving, themed HotWheels Food Trucks on their “Rally” course! The season appropriate liveries include Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, and Pumpkin Pie! The hay bales are something new though!

That’s kinda how the Banana got it’s name, he went to go pull somebody’s motor home out of the mud, after it was painted yellow but before he lifted it and started his channel, well, the guy that called him saw the little XJ that came to rescue his big motor home, his asked Matt “You’re going to pull me out with that little yellow Banana?!” ………..which he then did and the name stuck! There was another video where they had to save a Fire Expedition that was stuck, and I’m just pretty sure that he was truly insulted at seeing the Banana show up, guess he expected some big 4x4 pickup with a thumping V8, not some little unibody SUV with a glass pack equipped I-6 dating to the Johnson Administration on 35” tires to show up. It’s amazing how many side by sides they end up rescuing, seemingly almost all rentals too. The number of big 4wd trucks they end up dragging out with the MORRvair, Banana, Rudy’s (Matt and Jaimie’s eldest son) XJ. They even have one lady that they know on a first name basis, she’s had a couple 1st get Expeditions that are stock with iffy tires that she tries to take places I’d not want to take something that is both that big AND stock. that rig doesn’t have a normal chassis, they build a uniframe into it from different shapes oh steel tube as they cut the stock unibody apart, then fabricated a custom suspension, engine compartment, and mounts to make it front engine and 4wd, and then there’s the interior where the dash and some of the structure is all that’s still kinda stock as well as the body mods between the boat sides, opened fenders and flares, and eventually the front end where they worked a traditional grill that looks period Olds like. It’s not even as “Stock” as the Farmtruck from Street Outlaws is.