Hi all! here's my ride

[BTracer]

Long time lurker, first time posting. Anyway here's my ride. It started off as a completely red dyed car. Been slowly converting it to a more traditional looking one. Not sure if I got the pics correctly posted, but here we go.

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[wts873]

I love the wheels!! That body is also top notch!!

[noony]

Welcome, Looks good to me....Nice job

[BTracer]

Thanks for the compliments. The photos came out a lot more grainy than I thought they would. Any pointers to improve on them in the future? One of the things that I wanted to do with this car was strip off the anodizing and polish it to give the car that vintage coke can look.

[wts873]

Thanks for the compliments. The photos came out a lot more grainy than I thought they would. Any pointers to improve on them in the future? One of the things that I wanted to do with this car was strip off the anodizing and polish it to give the car that vintage coke can look.

Nooo!! Well unless its all srached up on bottom.

[BTracer]

Actually I already started on another chassis. It looks like someone went to town and left it for dead on this one.

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[BTracer]

After a little bit of elbow grease and a mock up. The main chassis is horribly pitted. I think I left the oven cleaner on too long.

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[BTracer]

Some progress. I never knew polishing out a chassis was so much work...

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[wts873]

It turned out really nice!!

[WillyThickfoot]

I agree.Looks real nice.Do you have to clear that chassis now?



Dave

[BTracer]

Thanks. I think I'll clear it eventually, still got a lot of polishing to do, though. The belly and the left side are still pretty rough. So far I've taken off a bunch of material from the bottom to try to get the pits out. The countersunk screws are starting to not sit flush. I guess that's one way to lighten the chassis

[BTracer]

Well I've offically abandoned the coke can car and moved on. My fingers just couldn't take the sanding. -too many pits in the aluminum. Maybe I'll pick it up again later in life when I can afford the wonders of machine sanding (in other words, a dremel). Recently I picked up a nice lot of rc10s. After a bit of sifting through the parts, here's what I came up with.

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It's far from being a mint/correct World's car, but I can live with it. The previous owner did a great job of milling parts of the chassis and on the paint.

[BTracer]

And the other one (with my 'in progress' Jammin Jay replica in the back)

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[bearrickster]

That looks great dont give up!!

[YZ-10]

nice collection mate