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Working from home this week gave me some additional time to work on the car in the evenings. Redid the rear bulkhead with a black 10T piece. I cut a slot below the transmission mount point so I could retain more material in the bulkhead. I started to see bulging in the first white bulkhead, so this ...

A long time ago

Still racing XX-4 even in 2019
5th overall

Hey Guys, I know some of you oval guys might get a kick out of this one! I got the kit about a year ago, it was seating on the shelf in front of me for all that time, debating whether I should build it or not... After some deeeeeeeep :roll: thinking, I figured I might die tomorrow, so why not enjoy ...

Icing on the cake showed up today

Shocks are now in place, so I suppose its time to finish this one. Its only about 15 years since I first built this car; that should be sufficent time to ponder the correct sticker placement... Now where did I put that body. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fv33wq-YnG1ri9KLSmLYd84rt7VKA07lrco_KS2VY...

Few more pics

many things identify it, but foremost: White CE arms were never rereleased your noseplate had stamped AE lettering, rere looks machined 4 hole front tower (early CE only) was not rereleased bottom load shocks were not rereleased shock ball ends are not rere style on center front axles were not rerel...

Not perfect, but a cool body non the less.

Lessons learned don’t use out of date epoxy.

Few more pics

I think the chassis might be finished?

Only taken four years can i blame covid

At the IconicRC Revival weekend I got to hold Craigs Detroit 91 Stealth car that he still has, he is looking on restoring it. While I had it I took some photos of it that you might enjoy. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEVnfLMZk5zD6aK3Tf5KoDJiKTRih2gqywi30gai0nk7rXWOdUBzvdXmMvJOuPdmxQUWqfK...

Here are some progress from last night: The mounting of the carbon plates on front and rear arms, the new rear shocks tower . Lot of dust from the shelf ;) https://media.joomeo.com/large/6325c4761e8c4.jpg https://media.joomeo.com/large/6325c6ff94110.jpg https://media.joomeo.com/large/6325c71229293.j...

Feb 1992

Apr 1995

More pictures? No problem! Well, small problem. Kind of annoying that the forum software will only accept small pictures, so I have to resize everything. Another fact of technology progressing- all new cellphones take MASSIVE sized pictures, even on their smallest settings. Oh well... Anyways, here ...