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beater crawler rebuild

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finally got around to rebuilding my beater crawler in hopes of shooting some video...

stripped tomica toyota mini p/u body dovetailed...
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body painted...
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tubing it up...
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finished crawler...
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That's forkin' cool man.
Great job on the tubing, and everything else.
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so many great concepts there, i dunno where to start! :-o
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That is cool. I dig those old Toyota pickups. :-o
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thanks. prob. my favorite crawler so far... def. crawls the best.
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Post by hue35 »

That's badass. I picked up some of those tires when you posted up the original one, and I really want to get those running on a crawler.

Do you have video capabilities?
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nice job :grin:
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i'm not quite there on the videos yet but i'm hoping to do some shooting with my buddy's camera and post them up with his computer... i just started running linux and don't have all the bugs worked out yet
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Very nice Red, you are going nutz with these things.
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:eek: way cool :-o
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Congratulations!

I like the tube parts!

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That thing is great! Is the tubing solder wire? Where did you get those tires?

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spooky wrote: Is the tubing solder wire? Where did you get those tires?

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1/16" alum. tubing, wal mart 1/18th scale quads... they're the wider rears now
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Great, thanks!

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