RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

[GoMachV]

I remember seeing one of these as a kid, pretty sure it was in a book I have ordered and in the mail. Anyway, I finally got a great supply of 1/12 off road tires so I decided to mock it up. These are not the final parts just checking to see how its going to lay out. Pretty excited to see its coming together with no extra holes so far

[Jirka]

Awesome car

Jirka

[GoMachV]

It wasn't very high tech back then it just always intrigued me and I have lots of 12e parts

[RC10resto]

I remember a kid down the street was getting an "off-road" RC car. So I got out the shovel and mad a course on an empty dirt lot. We brought the car out and it could barely make it 5 feet on the dirt straight

My memory tells me it was a 1/12 Bolink Digger, at least I remember the tires said Digger. NOT an off-road car

P.S. this was apprx 1979

[GoMachV]

I know the digger you speak of! It was a jerobee based car, I am working on attaining one right now.


Funny how far off road has come

[RC10resto]

There she is
It was such a disappointment..............................

[GoMachV]

There she is
It was such a disappointment..............................

Its funny how things that seemed cool as kids ended up being crap. I'm glad I didn't buy a lot of the stuff I wanted bitd.

[GJW]

now that's certainly different. well done man

[GoMachV]

Few more pics, the views above were not great

[slotcarrod]

Looks very cute, what truck body you going to use? Midnight Pumpkin? Or a rally car??

[GoMachV]

the midnight pumpkin would be to new, I am thinking that I need to find an old seventy's era plastic toy body or something of a cox gas powered control line or free runner. There was a cool van that would do well if I can find it

[GoMachV]

I didn't want to post pics until I won it.....but here is a digger like mentioned above with the vw body can't wait to tear into it

[hugger19]

glad u won it, i was bidding on it but didnt want to spend more than $40 since not that big into this style bolink car.

[GoMachV]

He got a real good key word in there with jerobee, but he didn't know it was a bolink digger. I was really hoping to score it for less but glad nevertheless

[GoMachV]

Body for the off road 12e located....couldn't pass it up for $6 shipped its a cox body so era is correct. C
Hope it works!