Did Andy have a brother named Jack?

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Did Andy have a brother named Jack?

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:mrgreen:

Got this body today, looks very professionally done in an Andy's style, but has a different signature in the typical black marker.
Any ideas?
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Thats sharp and looks like a JrxT body lets see it??
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It is nicely painted, but the body mount holes are hacked in squares, and they do not come even close to matching up with the jrx-T holes, and the bed is the thinnest lexan I've ever seen on a losi body. I'll have to try some other trucks to see if anything I have lines up at all.

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No, I think (keyword) I have a body painted by the same dude. It was a Losi Pro A&L body that Brandon wanted and I sniped. I have to find it, it is close just buried here in the Man Room behind a bunch of stuff.

You know you can't just shot a pic of the sig..... we need to see the whole thing. :mrgreen:
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Here are a couple shots. The blue/yel/grn body in the background is the one I ran at the vintge nats, it looks very similar in paint technique, but has no signature.
The one on the right is an andy's signed chevy that I got in the lot with the "jack" body. No Idea what body it actually is though. Luckily the chevy was mounted with velcro, no holes!
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looks nice in the paint but looks like someone bought a painted body and when they hacked the holes in it they pry didn't fit what they were trying to mount it to so recouped some of their money and ebayed it. Sad that someone had more money than common sense and tools.
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That's a sweet body! Just slap some decals over the misplaced holes, drill for the right ones and call it a day. 8)

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the andy's painted chevy body is probably an andy's body.

i don't think the jrxt body was supposed to go on a losi. not only the body holes not lining up, but the antenna hole is on the wrong side of the roof.

i'd do just what melvin said. drill new holes in the correct spots, and decal over the wrong ones.

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Dam shame about the holes... It's a sharp looking paint job.

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I have a JrxT body with the same "Jack" signature that came in a lot...I supposed it was Jack Johnson. :? I thought I still had a pic, but can't seem to find it.

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I started working on it and have done the mother of all sticker cover-ups.
I got some checkerboard vinyl stuff from the airplane covering section of the LHS. I used shoe-goo and fiberglass mesh on the underside to patch the holes/cracks first. Then I sanded the top flush and sanded off the texture of the paint so the sticker would adhere better. (the beds of these pro-painted bodies are all painted black on the outside so they are not glossy)
I think it looks pretty good, and the vinyl material should give some strength/durability to the super-thin lexan. I may put some clear contact paper type stuff on the underside to further reinforce the bed a little.

Next up are the holes up front. They were filled with shoe goo after taping over the holes from the outside, so the repair is nearly flush, just have to find decent stickers to put there.
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Wow, that's some impressive body work! Nice job. I love that body, I wish I could find a sweet vintage painted body for one of my cars.

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Here's my 'Jack' autographed JrxT- body. Similar painting style, and confirmed additional butcher holes...plus the awesome rollbar. :lol: It's best 'feature' is the major hack in the rear bed in an attempt by the PO to be 'fit' onto an RC10GT... :shock: Anthony's Coverite and stickers fix could easily save this body I guess?
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templeofspeed wrote:Here's my 'Jack' autographed JrxT- body. Similar painting style, and confirmed additional butcher holes...plus the awesome rollbar. :lol: It's best 'feature' is the major hack in the rear bed in an attempt by the PO to be 'fit' onto an RC10GT... :shock: Anthony's Coverite and stickers fix could easily save this body I guess?
Jack does some good painting, it is amazing what some stickers can do.
Here is the end result of some more stickering and hole filling. Note the Rc10talk logo on the hood 8)
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