My son's Midnight Pumpkin and my Lunchbox & Pumpkin

[bearrickster]

I built my son a Midnight Pumpkin. He's only 3 1/2 but he loves helping me with my cars. and he spent as much time as his mother could stand at the track watching me race last summer. I think he will be into it to. its all stock I bought it from Shodog I took it apart and replaced all of the bushings with bearings, a new body set, and set of See's Champ 500's from Bngiles. thanks guys!

[bearrickster]

We tried it out in the Snow today we need tires bad he had fun though

[shodog]

that turned out pretty cool.

Jim

[bearrickster]

Yes I am pretty hapy with it. I got a new chrome set from some guy in England on Ebay, and a body from Tower. I painted it then Cleared, that didnt turn out as well I wanted. so I put it the paint booth and used some automotive clear. that got the shine I was after. but as many of these as I have built I have never been able to get the decals to laydown tight. their under the automotive clear and the flames still lifted a little. I am going to paint the original body with automotive paint and see how it comes out. I have some candyapple metal flake I want to try.

[longboardnj]

very nice 1 of my favs and 1 of the most fun rcs out there i had 2 killed 1 havin fun, mines not as fancy. olive drab paint and mec speed control . i posted a reply cause i had to tell u about a real cool mod i did ... tail devils these are flints you screw to the back of a skateboard but instead i zip tye them to the wheely bar... real cool at nite

[obsidian]

The midnight pumpkin is one of my favorite cars. Simply stunning body design!

[m2fit4u2]

As a kid I put some paddle tires on my lunch box, from what I remember it did pretty good in the snow.

Nice job on your Midnight Pumpkin body.

[bearrickster]

thanks I am working on another one for my self to play with him

[FasterLouder]

Good stuff,Rick!
Almost finished my Pumpkin build,myself.
Bought an incomplete chassis for $20,a complete diff off eBay for $10 and a chrome Pumkin body that's like new for $20
All I need is the 'E' parts tree for some body mounts.
Scored some new chrome rims,too.
The yellow old school CVA shocks look a little out of place,but I'll be damned if I'm going to replace oil shocks with the stock friction shocks,just because they're chrome!

Good to see the young'un keeping the faith!

[bearrickster]

Thanks we had it out the other day and he thrashed on it for two days its all stock except bearings so it runs like a half hour on a 3000 nickle medal. he loves it

[MelvinsArmy]

That's one nice looking Midnight Pumpkin.

[bearrickster]

That's one nice looking Midnight Pumpkin.

Thank you, I painted it in my shop and topped with 5 coats of automotive clear to hold the decals down.

[faceman2k]

I bought one of these when the first came out with the money I got for my 12th birthday. I just remember how upset I was the first time I flipped it and scraped up the body. I eventually sold it to help pad for an RC12L. I recently bought another one I planned to build as a shelf queen but have not got around to putting it together. I just love the look of the hard shell body. The paint on yours looks fantastic! Your son will no doubt be hooked on R/C.

[bearrickster]

He is already he wants to play with them more than I do. thanks for the comp on the body, its not perfect but pretty clean. I figured he would just tear it up anyway but I wanted it nice when he got it. he is doing much better than I expected on not scraching it up, it still looks pretty good. hes had it almost a year now.

[bearrickster]

Well My Son loves his pumpkin so much, he wanted me to run my truck with him . but my RS4 MT just didn't cut it little to much truck. so thanks to my very good friend Red Scampi, he hooked me up with a couple more pumpkins. I took them apart and built a very nice one. This fulfilled two of my needs. my desire to have a truck to run with my son, and to replace my beloved Lunchbox, I have missed for years, as the ex-wife sold it in the divorce . now with a a little EBay action and the pumpkin is now gone, and from the ashes rises a box stock Lunchbox. it does have a modified motor Imex chrome wheels, new Re-release body set form (nitro-master great ebayer) then 2 coats of Ford performance yellow, 4 coats of automotive clear, we have new reborn Lunchbox. you should see the shine the pic's just don't do it justice