Bruiser Wrecker as featured in RC Car Action

I've owned this truck since new in 1986 and have pretty much ignored it for nearly 20 years. I loved the scale look of these kits which drew me to the Bruiser and dropped the big bucks back then to buy it NIB.
I decided to do something really different and mated a Clod Chevy cab to a custom fabbed rear wrecker bed for a very unique truck. Everything is made of Styrene and came out pretty nice I think.
The tires & wheels are Midnight Pumpkin which with a little machining to the wheels could be mounted to the stock Bruiser wheel hubs. Foam was definitely needed in the tires for this heavy beast.
The body now has 8 circuits that control 39 LED strobes and flashers which are turned on with the microswitches on the wrecker bed. All the lighting is on a 3V system contained in the body, so the body can removed easily.
Last winter I decided it needed some major TLC and did a total resto including a complete teardown of the chassis. Replaced all the fasteners with M3 SHCS, new ball bearings, LRP ESC, and acid washed and painted the complete chassis for more protection and scale appearance.

The pics below were some of my submissions to RC Car Action magazine for a 'Workbench' feature they did of the truck in July of 2009. What a thrill to have them do this!
I've since made more changes including a snow plow which I will detail in another showroom entry soon.

I would love to hear what everybody thinks. Thanks for looking.

UPDATE: Pic 9 shows the current body updates (strobe bar, etc.) with HPI Geolanders. The new front plow rig will be detailed in another entry - stay tuned...