Here is another buggy I put together over the weekend. I don't really have a runner so the chassis was built up to be used and will have electronics in it soon. I also wanted a base to see how this ski kit looked. We are supposed to get a bunch of snow the next few days so I might have to try it out. The kit comes with an adapter to mount a second set of wheels but I only have one set of these paddles. Might try to find an adapter to mount the predator tracks as well. The body will be a parma eagle which I thought would look cool with the skiis. The Andy's body was borrowed off another buggy for the pics. In the summer I'll mount some tires up. The front skiis are a decent design and they have a stop built in so the skiis won't flip over if you jump it.
That looks cool. Looks like it may push a little! I would see if you could scrape up a pair of steering knuckles with the most amount of castor available to help it turn a bit.
Ha, Was just lookin at a kit for those skis at the LHS still hangin there this morning . Was debating if it was worth the effort and put in on pass til I seen an actual setup. Looks great! Let us know how it handles...might be heading back tot he LHS now
Todd
Peace and professionlism.....Kabunga signing off!!!
klavy69 wrote:Ha, Was just lookin at a kit for those skis at the LHS still hangin there this morning . Was debating if it was worth the effort and put in on pass til I seen an actual setup. Looks great! Let us know how it handles...might be heading back tot he LHS now
Todd
Do you remember how much they were and did they have more than 1 kit? I would love to get a set.
I remember seeing those skis all the time in the RCCA ads and thought they were neat but seeing the actual parts mounted on the car look significantly different than the pic on the label. They look pretty flimsy and I don't know if I'd run them.
railey72 wrote:This is a vintage kit. There might be something out there that you could make work but this kit is from the late 80's.
The tracks are made by RC4wd.
Way back when one of the Reader's Rides from RCCA was a Fox that had a set of skis made out of Jetfire's red thrusters. To this day I can still remember it because that was my favorite Transformer.
Stuck inside for the foreseeable future as it continues to snow. We have approximately 20 inches of snow so far. Going to daydream about nicer weather and being able to drive some of my cars.
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Got a half inch of ice with 8 inches of snow on top of that here in Springfield, MO. Cant wait till summer!
We had our first dump of snow for the Winter this morning so as per usual when it snows here I was woken by the sound of a car hitting something. There was mayhem outside, within 10 minutes there were 7 crashes...4 of them involving the same car...
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I just went out for lunch. Walking just to the car, I started sweating my a$$ off, but I am a sweating fool. This is when I miss Michigan.
With snow season coming up I thought I'd make a set of tracks for the buggy. The parts were left over from another track project. The plastic tracks are from a Kyosho Blizzard which have been narrowed and shortened. I picket up the skis on ebay a...
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Cool buggy for sure. I sold one of my custom buggies so someone else could enjoy it... like you, the fun part is building them, playing with them and then moving on to the next build. There's no point in having a runner sit on a shelf, unless you...
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Here is a short clip of my son and I driving our gold pans in the snow. I wasn't driving because I had to film but you can see my car in the background.
Tons of fun but I noticed a few things
- his car is pretty stock and is really a...
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The tires were belted with two layers of plastic cut from soda bottles. I used a pick heated with a torch to melt clean holes through the tire and plastic, then the screws went through the plastic and tires from the inside (obviously). Worked...
Im from Michigan so it might have just been a cold north thing buttt... Does anybody remember the ski kits that replaced the front wheels? If I remember right they also came with dual wheel adapters for the rear as well. When I was a teenager the...
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i had that kit on my hopper back in the day, it was fun as hell.
i stRapped a model rocket engine to it. that was the end of that hopper. lol