Car Body On A Truck

[Mr Pig]

My son has a Mighty Bull, same chassis as Blackfoot Extreme, Twin Detonator etc. He quite fancies fitting an Evo car body and some road wheels to it!

Yes, I know it would look mad, I think that’s one of the reasons he wants to do it, but has anyone done this kind of thing? I’d love to see what it looks like myself :0)

[spannerboy]

you can do anything really - i fitted an hpi el camino savage body to my rc10 b3 to get a muscle car look. you might need to faqbricate some body mounts (i just used wire).

[terry.sc]

They used to make wide rally car bodies to fit on buggy chassis with buggy size tyres, but they haven't been around for years.

Here's one of mine

mud4fun has built a modern version using a normal rally car body in his showroom

More info on it here

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...d=16012&id=1721

[Gruntfuggly]

Is that an RS200? I'd love an RS200 body...

[terry.sc]

quote:Originally posted by Gruntfuggly

Is that an RS200? I'd love an RS200 body...

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Yep, bought the Cougar just for the RS200 bodyshell. unfortunately there's quite a bit of damage to the front of it.

[Mr Pig]

Looks interesting. What about wheels? Do normal car wheels fit?

[terry.sc]

You could try and find the HPI Super Scale bodies, they are 240mm wide and have a wheelbase of 280 or 300mm which will fit a normal buggy chassis with a bit of work. Every other rally car shell is 200mm wide with a wheelbase around 250mm. Mighty Bull is even wider so I would suggest going for the 'Monster Evo' look as shown above.

Normal touring/rally car wheels are much smaller than the wheels on your Mighty Bull, only 50mm in diameter, you will not fit them over the suspension arms. Several manufacturers make road tyres that fit the Mighty Bull wheels and I would suggest getting some of them to give the right look to go with the body. These are made by Proline and available from most model shops.