Slammed Ford F-150 Project

[beetleman]

Seeing caprinut's thread on his slammed beetle, I decided to open a similar one for my slammed Ford F-150 work in progress. As I converted my Blackfoot Xtreme into a Twin Detonator (added a front gearbox and a TD lexan body), I was left off with an ABS F-150 body which I almost put up on ebay. But then I saw this picture:

As Tamiya released the F-150 in Lexan on the TA02 chassis, I thought that would be a good start. After contemplating for a while how to tuck everything under the body (i.e. 'slam'), and almost buying SDI's negative offset wheels, I decided to try and use leftover M04 arms I had from my M04-to-scorcher conversion. A bit of elbow grease and a lot of trial and error later, the chassis is ready.

Almost touching...

Used servo horns as upper arms

To be continued...

[Kevin_Mc]

more! more!!

[caprinut]

Great project

And yes we want more

[beetleman]

After sorting out the chassis, fitting the body was the next challenge. I managed to do that be cutting the rear shock tower and opening a slot in the truck bed for the spur cover (which obviously coudn't be cut). I'm hoping the paint would help conceal that. I'll be changing the wheels as soon as the new ones arrive.

[SteelRat]

After sorting out the chassis, fitting the body was the next challenge. I managed to do that be cutting the rear shock tower and opening a slot in the truck bed for the spur cover (which obviously coudn't be cut). I'm hoping the paint would help conceal that. I'll be changing the wheels as soon as the new ones arrive.

Like it. Had you thought about making a cover for the rear bed like you often see on these kinds of custom trucks? That'd also get around your exposed spur cover problem.

[Kevin_Mc]

i was just about to suggest the same thing - a custom smoothed bed that you could drop in as a cover

it'll look great when its finished, it would be cool to see it next to caprinut's Beetle

[candre23]

That looks amazing. Great job!

[Will16]

Great work cant wait to see it when finished.

[beetleman]

I searched the web for more info on the original truck and found the online version of the January 2008 article of Truckin' magazine:

http://www.truckinweb.com/features/0801tr_...f150/index.html

I dug deeper and was able to contact the owner, Jonathan, who turned out to be a swell guy - he offered to send me not only an original copy of the magazine with the article, but also to locate and send me spray cans of the original colors used on his truck! These colors are by House of Kolor and would have been otherwise impossible for me to obtain.

New wheels have arrived which I will mount tonight and take a picture. Basically I'm done, however waiting for the colors will delay this project for a while. But heck it will be worth it in the end! Thank you Jonathan!!!

[Henk4Focus]

That is one awesome project! Very nicely done sofar. Weird that there are not many more low slung cars and trucks here on TC.

[beetleman]

I was scratching my head over how to make the front grill look more like the real truck, until I realized that the King Blackfoot front grill is a direct replacement, and with its horizontal mesh it's far more appropriate than the Extreme's vertical mesh grill.

The problem is that I can't seem to source this part anywhere - PLEASE HELP!!!

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