235mm wide body shells
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 11:34 am
Hi, I apologize if that subject was treated on this forum... but I looked for quite a long time in vain. Same on the web. The idea would be to try something different to dress up my Rockies. they have an apparently unusual wheelbase of 265mm (sounds like 10.5 inches) and the body has to be wide enough to cover the wheels, say around 235mm seems it looks like a somehow standard. Issue being ? Well, they are difficult to find !
Since there is a bit of knowledge on this forum about these old buggys, would some of you have already found alternatives to get cars bodies on buggies ?
I would be surprised that we couldnt find any !
My rare findings are:
A long thread, quite interesting on the matter... but very old:
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/26595-wide-110th-shells-235-mm-wide-270-mm-wheelbase-where-can-i-get-them/&page=1
Here some to sale but if the width is quite OK, the wheelbase might be too long (280mm):
http://deltaplastikusa.com/10th-scale/280mm
There, the wheelbase is somehow right (260mm) but then the width is far too narrow (200mm):
http://deltaplastikusa.com/10th-scale/200mm
So all in all... not much to find !
Since there is a bit of knowledge on this forum about these old buggys, would some of you have already found alternatives to get cars bodies on buggies ?
I would be surprised that we couldnt find any !
My rare findings are:
A long thread, quite interesting on the matter... but very old:
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/26595-wide-110th-shells-235-mm-wide-270-mm-wheelbase-where-can-i-get-them/&page=1
Here some to sale but if the width is quite OK, the wheelbase might be too long (280mm):
http://deltaplastikusa.com/10th-scale/280mm
There, the wheelbase is somehow right (260mm) but then the width is far too narrow (200mm):
http://deltaplastikusa.com/10th-scale/200mm
So all in all... not much to find !