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Those things are mad, well done fellas they look great...

i had this chassis in ok shape has extra holes and its scratched up with old clear tape peices on the bottom, so i thought it would be a good start for anther ratrod.

Where did you find those wheels?


This is going to be cool!

ebay they are 1/8 scale wheels/tires from a monogram or revell hot rod model. best part was they were painted blk and molded in red so i gave em a weathered look very easily

screwed the back to the front of the wheels today and mounted the frt axle.

That looks sweet! Looking forward to seeing how the back end looks now!

well i got the rear wheels mounted now. this time i wanted to use a tamiya semi rear axle, just have to find a way to mount it now. iam going to use a 53 ford pickup body on this one. flt blk with some stickers time on the body. thats why i went with the semi axle to tuck the wheels inside the body.

got the rear end all mounted up and added some fake rear shocks just for looks.

love this stuff. great job everyone hope this is the next big thing in rc.....

hugger19 wrote:ebay they are 1/8 scale wheels/tires from a monogram or revell hot rod model. best part was they were painted blk and molded in red so i gave em a weathered look very easily

very cool, the "weathered look "is something I love and wish I had the talent to do it. lucky me alot of my stuff is already weathered naturally haha

got the parma 53 ford body today. its a nice thick plastic, but come on parma the rear bed is a bubbled on one side. geez can u buy anything worth a s--t these days???

Plastic?

well i tried to fix parma's f up with my heat gun and well its worse. just sent parma a long unhappy email on their quality. i guess the dent will add to the rat rod look

Diamond Dave wrote:Plastic?

Yup, lexan, or polycarbonate is a thermoplast.

This is a major work in progress. I bought a new 1/8 scale T bucket model which has 3 ways to build it so eventually this will get some work done to it.

shodog wrote:This is a major work in progress. I bought a new 1/8 scale T bucket model which has 3 ways to build it so eventually this will get some work done to it....

Awesome reminder for me of of those old 1/8 scale sets! I did the Monogram Deuce Ford when I was little. You could do it leaving the fenders and much of the chrome in the box..