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Well done It's looking very much like a bad dudes car from the movies Plenty of black on black good work

stingray-63 wrote:

very nice,
Small question; where are the rear tires from? I have the same on my hornet. I have a doubt about the origin

I believe they are made by Parma (that's what the ebay listing said). They are marked TR8412 on the sidewalls.

They are also very similar to Troll tyres (I suspect these may be a copy, hence the "TR" part number).

I also have some very similar ones on my RC-10 which are "You-G".

THANKS MARTIN.
Mines haven't no stamp.

@Stingray - I think your tyres are probably Troll tyres. They are available in sensible colours!

Still deliberating about which body to put on this. I decided that the Rough Rider body I originally intended to use is too good to chop up to fit around the front suspension, so I will use that on my "proper" SRB chassis.
I thought about a Kamtec Baja body, but the miser in me wants to use the original, rather beaten up SS body:

I think the only option with this is "rat look", which will suit the badass chassis quite well I think. Anyone got a Beetle (SS, Blitzer, Monster Beetle) nose cone going spare?

Anymore progress on the body for said beastie?

I managed to pick up a damaged Monster Beetle shell for just the postage, so I think it will end up on this.







These are the worst of the cracks, but there are several other smaller ones.

First, attack with the graffiti remover then I had a go at the cracks with some of this stuff:












The previous owner had attempted to repair the cracks by welding with a soldering iron. This just caused the cracks to be wider than they should have been. The adhesive above has the consistency of epoxy so is useful for filling cracks and building up a reinforcing layer. It dries to a flexible plastic finish so I'm hoping it will not crack again.

It lives! Albeit with "field upgraded" rear suspension.

(Hmm, photos not uploading from my mobile)

I had the same cracks on my mnster beetle body. more , I missed half wheele arch I repaired with the black 2 components glue

Worked out how to do it now.


Note the high tech custom elastomeric radio box fixation system.