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well i had a ton of HT parts from random lots i bought and such, so i threw together a car of the extra parts and red dyed misc parts i had lol. came out alright. only part i wanna replace is the left side chassis brace which has extra holes drilled in the side for some reason.

Stupidly, i even made a tranny brace using a extra broken hot trick chassis i had, but i made it for a stealth tranny stupidly enough, which obviously, isnt too period correct for this car lol. gonna head back to the shop tommorow to make a normal brace and a battery brace made from the red chassis stuff.

Still gotta find a tranny, trying to win a MIP tranny right now on the bay, we'll see what happens

also waiting on tower to ship me a protech body and the spazstix anodized gold and red paint, and gonna come up with some sort of cool paint scheme

WOW!!!. that look cool man.

thank you. also forgot to mention i am looking for some cool aluminum rims for it. i have a set but they dont fit well for some reason... think they are like 1.7 size or something weird. would kill for a set of technacraft, but with the prices lately i dont think its gonna happen or show up for sale anytime soon lol

That's awesome Mike, I love those full HT conversions, so vintage... I admit it would be a crime to drill the chassis to accomodate a Steatlth tranny, but if you want to stay period correct, I doubt the RPM bulkhead and rear arm mounts actually belong to the period you're targetting... Now I have a request for you, if you have enough material left, could you have a tranny brace cut out from the same chassis for me? I would also go for a classical 4 hole for a six gear! Cheers

i know the rpm stuff is a bit later, but honestly it was already red and im lazy, plus i dont have too many "clean" bulkheads at the moment to even dye. ill probably switch them around as parts come in.

im gonna cut some more braces later today, ill make a few from this chassis, i "believe" i have enough material to do it. it was a swiss chesse chassis that broke, but it was "never run" for the most part i believe.

Ok Mike, just let me know through a PM

just cut a brace and battery strap from extra material, just gotta finish them up now

Nice work Mike. How are cutting them?

probably using some precision cutting instruments:



Just kidding. Nice work!

i used a scroll saw and drill press to cut them, took me like 15 min for both, the fiberglass cut and sanded very easily to my surprise., i gave them a "post" sanding after the picture to make them perfect, and they came out pretty nice i think

Getting the radius on the ends of the battery straps even is pretty hard without a guide. Nice freehand.

yea, scroll sawing is tough, a little trick i picked up is to rub the scroll saw blade with a good amount of beeswax when cutting metal or fiber or anything OTHER than wood, and you get a pretty smooth cut.

Asso_man! wrote:That's awesome Mike, I love those full HT conversions, so vintage... I admit it would be a crime to drill the chassis to accomodate a Steatlth tranny, but if you want to stay period correct, I doubt the RPM bulkhead and rear arm mounts actually belong to the period you're targetting... Now I have a request for you, if you have enough material left, could you have a tranny brace cut out from the same chassis for me? I would also go for a classical 4 hole for a six gear! Cheers

Fixed!! lol, had some spare parts that cleaned up and dyed well

well i used my vinyl cutter with some extra gold vinyl i had to make some gold vinyl decals, threw a few on the chasiss, the rest are gonna go on the body

body will be a protech 1, with red metallic and gold trim, and some black touches. not sure the scheme yet lol, any ideas or pics would be awesome

just wanna add if anyone needs any colored vinyl decals, i can cut them from .25" to 64" in height. I have gold, silver, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, white, and some other random colors.