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beater crawler rebuild

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:59 pm
by redrustbucket
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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flexxxy...
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:25 pm
by CaboWabo
That's forkin' cool man.
Great job on the tubing, and everything else.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:38 am
by betty.k
so many great concepts there, i dunno where to start! :-o

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:27 am
by crazydave
That is cool. I dig those old Toyota pickups. :-o

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:48 am
by redrustbucket
thanks. prob. my favorite crawler so far... def. crawls the best.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:54 am
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?

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:07 pm
by )3utthead
nice job :grin:

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:17 pm
by redrustbucket
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

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:19 am
by Clint
Very nice Red, you are going nutz with these things.
:eek:

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:47 pm
by ynad
:eek: way cool :-o
love that spring :-o looks great

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:51 am
by PUBE JOOLZ
Congratulations!

I like the tube parts!

:)

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:22 am
by spooky
That thing is great! Is the tubing solder wire? Where did you get those tires?

DM

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:38 pm
by redrustbucket
spooky wrote: Is the tubing solder wire? Where did you get those tires?

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

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:22 am
by spooky
Great, thanks!

DM