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Oh yeah! That looks really nice with the black trim.

Tinkering around with the stance a bit. The fender arches are waaaay too wide for the wheels, especially in the rear, so I added some spacers over the hexes, and now they're just a little too wide. I rounded off the bottoms of the arches to make them look a little closer to stock and to give the illusion that the body sides tuck in at the bottom instead of going straight down as they must do with a Lexan body.



Then I remembered I have a set of M-size rally tires from another project that never happened, on gold-colored minilites. I raised the body one "click" to make room for the slightly taller rally tires.



I'm liking the stance like this, but not sold on the gold wheels. Might try the rally tires on the stock wheels instead.

I think that stance looks great, too. Way too many onroad car bodies fit too wide over the tires, the tires too deep inside the mostly empty wheel-wells, which just looks goofy IMO. This is almost perfect.

Coelacanth wrote:I think that stance looks great, too. Way too many onroad car bodies fit too wide over the tires, the tires too deep inside the mostly empty wheel-wells, which just looks goofy IMO. This is almost perfect.

Thanks. Yeah, that has always bothered me too. i think a lot of it is the slab-sidedness of Lexan bodies; if you look at real cars, the tops of the wheels are pretty well inside the wells, but the bottoms are not, because the body sides curve back in at the bottom so the tire doesn't look so far back. That's what I was trying to do by trimming the arches the way I did, make it look like it curves back in when it actually doesn't.

You should have seen how deep the wheels sat back in the rear wells before I spaced them out. Quarter-inch of overhang on each side. I think it's because this body was originally made for a 1/12 scale pan car chassis, which is wider in back than the M-chassis. Still, they could have supplied longer rear axles to compensate... Tamiya always skimps out in funny places on their kits.

Loving those gold Minilites with rally tyres, Mark....... I have a mk1 Escort body that those would look superb on!!!!

I had one of the Tamiya Racing Master Golfs originally (RM Mk5), painted lime green with a Technigold in it..... flew, but didn't really go around corners!!!! When the repro bodies started appearing a few years ago, I decided to get one (eventually), and not long after deciding found these alloy wheels....
The wheels are the same size and pattern front to back, but the rears are a deeper dish. I think they'll suit the rear of this VeeWee perfectly..... of course, I still don't have the body!!!

Alex

Not sure what it is about this Tamiya chassis...but I really want one. I'm still on the fence between the Mini Monte Carlo '94 kit and this one. I remember these cars from when i was a kid...I think my dad may have even had one in the Bahama Blue Metallic Clear Coat with a grey cloth interior. You may have just inspired me to pick one of these up.

What did you finally decide on for the color, and have you painted the body yet?

-JL

Those alloys look incredible, incredible. Where did you find them?

shodog wrote:Those alloys look incredible, incredible. Where did you find them?

They popped up on eBay one day...... and I picked them up. Been sitting in my wheel store for about four or five years, waiting..... probably wait a little longer, too!!!!

Alex

Incredible_Serious wrote:

shodog wrote:Those alloys look incredible, incredible. Where did you find them?

They popped up on eBay one day...... and I picked them up. Been sitting in my wheel store for about four or five years, waiting..... probably wait a little longer, too!!!!

I'm the other way...when I score a nice set of wheels, that's when I begin to hatch an idea how to get a car built for them. I think a different, unique set of wheels really makes the car.