Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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Here's a project I've been meaning to make for a long time. A Campbell's Soup Sand Scorcher. I took my Scorcher, the one I race at the VNats and gave it a new shelfer body to wear the rest of the year when it's not being raced. I had an Andy Warhol figure that looked to be about 1/10 scale as well, so I took his head off and mounted it to the Scorcher driver figure. I also added some new Blade 3 piece aluminum wheels in gold. I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out.

While I was at it, I upgraded the steering, it's not got a Super Champ servo saver and tie rods. Unfortunately the ball ends on the steering knuckles are 2.4mm and I can't seem to find any screws or ball ends that fit that size, so I had to use the stock ends there. Oh well, the rest is upgraded and the servo saver won't pop it's spring out like it was doing at last years race.
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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

Post by Charlie don't surf »

Holy crap!!! Warhol's in there :lol: Awesome

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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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I kept telling him that he needs to wear his helmet, but he's too worried about it messing up his wig.

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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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MelvinsArmy wrote:I kept telling him that he needs to wear his helmet, but he's too worried about it messing up his wig.
I had Dali in my car once. He wouldn't keep his head inside the window, looked like a black lab riding down the street, kept saying something about his mustache and butterflies-

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MelvinsArmy is getting his 5mn of fame ;)
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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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That's awesome! Is that body mount a stock piece or did you fabricate it yourself? What I mean is the part that you have screwed down between the shock towers with the body mount on it.
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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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very cool! looks like a good canidate for concours during the vonats!

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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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Sand Scorcher's are mmm, mmm, good... :D
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Late Edinger, RC10B2, Dual Sport, GT, Kyosho Turbo Ultima, Triumph, Tamiya Sand Scorcher, Blackfoot/Monster Beetle, '67 Beetle, Nikko Rhino, Traxxas Fiero, Slash, Hand-built Dune Buggy..all on here somewhere...

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Re: Andy Warhol's Sand Scorcher

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That's way awesome! :D

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