Joe Handley

Don't know how clost the G-Van chassis would be, the real ones are actually a variant of unibody construction. Front suspension might be close, but those were all leaf sprung from '71 or '72 all the way through '95.

dang.....Makes me want to buy one......... Good Job to whoever did it!

Wow, pefect name Dave!

A word of warning Gregg, if you're going into areas for crawling that don't have much shade for a long period of time, bring a hat and sunblock. Didn't do that for the SCRC comp with my AX10 today and I kinda look like a big, fat lobster at the moment Tomorrow is going to HURT

From what we've gotten at work for from Horizon Hobby (Losi's parent company), htey have been told to take all their bug looking products off teh amrket by VW.

I'd try something like that, but with a budget boosted 2wd XJ

Hey walt, what chrome stripper did you use?

Did they tabulate the votes at a bar after the show?

I'm guessing real, but really, reeeeeeelly hoping photoshop! Did Homer Simpson have anything to do with this....thing?

This one will be getting sledded!

Man are you lucky! I wish there was stuff like that around here

No kidding Nick! I used silly putty on my Wheely King for the first couple months and it did work halfway decent, but in climbing, locked front and rear worked better. I bought the Maximizer lockers for mine since I could "easy" get them (they were on back order at the time, so it took a little more time ) I may go back on the front with mine since it'll now be more of a trail rig/basher since I've got the Axial as a comp-able rig. I did JB Weld the diffs on my Venom Mini-Giant and also set up one with heavy grease, which acted like the silly putty does on the smaller rigs like that and Mini-T, that one will get the putty/grease front and JB rear diffs once I get around to building it back up. Both of my rigs have steerable knuckles on the back, but I've thought about either buying or trading for the factory ARTR/RTR rear lockouts for the Axial, Not going to bother with the WK even though I don't have plans to make it rear steer either. If you're going to run any kind of 2.2 class comps with your rig it can't have rear steer on it. One question for you Gregg, have you joined any of the forums yet? I'm on RCCrawler under the name BJoe.

Don't know, if you had a former larger enough you could probably pop a few out for yourself from the toy.

Don;t think Proline has made a FJ Cruiser body yet. The are making a body called the Bushwacker from a retooled FJ40 mold. Most of the FJC's being converted are New Bright made toy r/c's mounted on some kind of hobby grade chassis and suspension.

Has anybody noticed if VW is going nuts on licesning stuff lately? HPI Racing has had to kill their "1/10th" Baja Bug body and now I've notice that they've killed their "bug" body for the E-Savage Monster Truck as well as the RTR model that used that shell, somebody on RCCrawler has discovered that Losi has killed off all of their RTR's using "Bug" styled bodies, and now I've found that Revell of Germany has no Beetle models on their website! The only place so far I can find a "Bug" looking vehicle is on Tamiya's US site

I'm liking the lines!

hahahahaha!

I bothced the last one I tried and sold it for cheap in may, but need to keep quiet when not working now that Mom is home from the hospital after knee surgery

Just picked up the AMT 1966 Buick Wildcat (#38457) and saw that it was one of the old kustomizing kits with the kustom goodies still in the box. Anybody ever play with this one?

I'd watch out for teh Tubers if I were you

Glad you jumped in Nick, I know nothing about TLT axles! Now if it was Axial, Wheely King, and Venom/A-Tec.................

Yup, NickF40 and myself are the ones, what kind of questions do you have Gregg?

Another beaut! Did you dull coat the chroame on that engine?

Looks good.........How many shoehorns did it take?

Looks good, wish they still made that kit.