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RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:42 am
by 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 :mrgreen:

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Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:44 am
by Jirka
Awesome car :lol:

Jirka

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:47 am
by GoMachV
It wasn't very high tech back then :shock: it just always intrigued me and I have lots of 12e parts 8)

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:52 pm
by 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 :roll:

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

P.S. this was apprx 1979

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 12:58 pm
by GoMachV
I know the digger you speak of! It was a jerobee based car, I am working on attaining one right now.
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Funny how far off road has come

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:16 pm
by RC10resto
There she is :wink:
It was such a disappointment..............................

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:28 pm
by GoMachV
RC10resto wrote:There she is :wink:
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.

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 4:36 pm
by GJW
now that's certainly different. well done man :)

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:22 pm
by GoMachV
Few more pics, the views above were not great

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Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:01 am
by slotcarrod
Looks very cute, what truck body you going to use? Midnight Pumpkin? Or a rally car??

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:12 pm
by 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

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Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:05 pm
by GoMachV
I didn't want to post pics until I won it.....but here is a digger like mentioned above with the vw body :mrgreen: can't wait to tear into it

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Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:36 pm
by 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.

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:38 pm
by 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

Re: RC12e offroad truck project...building from memory

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 9:44 pm
by GoMachV
Body for the off road 12e located....couldn't pass it up for $6 shipped :shock: its a cox body so era is correct. C
Hope it works!

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