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What bolink car is this?

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I bought this thinking it was a digger. but after comparing it to the pictures I can find of diggers it is not the same.
The front end is set up like a legends, the horizontal plate is down low ont he chassis with square cutouts for tierods. The kingpins have springs. and are mounted on teh top of the plate. The legends instructions at rjspeed.com show short kingpins without springs, pointed down, and the plate is mounted to the chassis higher up with tie-rods going under the chassis not through it.

The rear of this chassis is squared off on top with an adjustable wheelie bar, the diggers that I can find show a triangulated rear of the chassis with a roller on the cross member, not a separate wheelie bar.

Any Ideas?

I got this car off ebay. I bought it mostly for the un-cut body. It turns out that the dirt on the body in the auction pictures is actually in the paint, not on top of the body. :(

I won't feel too bad cutting it now and beating the snot out of it in the street ;)
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Re: What bolink car is this?

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i wonder if it's the chassis from the Lil' Red Wagon kit? the old dodge wheelstander pickup.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/product_guide/carprofile.cfm?car_id=162

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Its a bolink Digger with trinty front wheels :mrgreen:
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never doubt Scr8p ;)
I was thinking the same thing but could not find any pictures. A google search turned up an article from RCCA with the text only. $20 later I renewed my subscription to the archives and got the full thing:
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I also researched the included motor, a bright orange speed gems. turns out it is an 11tripple. I wonder if that is going to be fast enough?

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Little red wagon uses the same chassis as the digger but the digger came with the vw buggy body 8) If your thinking about doing the little red wagon Anthony i have a set of new decals if it helps.
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the wheelie bar kinda gives it away. it's set back quite a bit further compared to the digger.

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Sorry, but that is definately not the same chassis as the digger.
It looks like the body mount points for the bug body line up with the chassis, so it should fit, but the rest of the chassis layout is quite different.

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I believe scr8p is right. I think the red wagon has slightly longer side plates then the digger and used more of the legends style front end. It's been so long since I've owned any Bolinks, I'm having a hard time remembering.

Also the legends do have springs in the front. The springs are maybe 1/4" long incompressed. They offer pretty much no suspension at all. Kind of pointless to have them there.

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Re: What bolink car is this?

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ALLL right Jason your right i forgot about the weelie bar :oops: Youuu da man :lol:
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It turns out that the wheelbase is too short for the digger body. I cut it out along the scribed line and drilled the marked front body post holes. the front wheels are nicely centered in the opening. The rear mount is shown with a light under the car. the black dot is a sharpie mark on the indent for the post hole. The rear axle and body mount hole both look to be about 3/8" too far forward. The rear of the body also hits the chassis where the wheelie bar mounts, as shown it is as low as it will go without hacking into the body to make slots for the chassis plates.
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Re: What bolink car is this?

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anthony, try mounting a lunch box body on it. see how close the wheel base is. :)

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funny you should say that as I already tried 8)
I even dug out my NIP Dahms bugsy body. That one has the digger post holes marked, and the wheelbase is definately too long for this chassis.
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i'd be buying a new lunch box body and taking about a 1/2" or so out of the center. :wink:

call it the Snack Box or the Short Bus. :mrgreen:

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scr8p wrote:i'd be buying a new lunch box body and taking about a 1/2" or so out of the center. :wink:

call it the Snack Box or the Short Bus. :mrgreen:
How about Wheely Van?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigPe-k-C98 :lol:
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Re: What bolink car is this?

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Well I guess I had that backwards. The digger is longer. Well the wagon being shorter would allow it to pull the front end off the ground a lot easier so I guess that makes sense.

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