January COTM - '74 Vega Drag Car

Well the body arrived today. And its not going to be a easy or fun build

The body is just all the wrong sizes. My plan was to use and evo chassis. but there is just no way i can get a evo chassis to fit under the body at the right hight. the bottoms of the body roll in a long ways. If i pry them out and stuff the chassis high up in the body fits perfect, but then the wheels would be sticking out the hood.

So i tried a gen 1 chassis. Same senario. So my only option is to run a gen 1 chassis with flat lithium ions. So there we go...

next its just the absolute wrong lenght... It sits on a long chassis nearly perfect. It just hardly rubs the tires. The spot to get it to sit right is lengthen it about the width of a screw! So theres not even enough space to be drilling a new whole in the deck. Its seriouly that close. but just in a horrible spot. So i lengthened the chassis where it needs to be, and temporarily hot glued it into place. I will JB weld it together later, and sand it and make it smooth so you'll never be able to tell

But either way.... Ill make it work!

Just incase you missed the other thread, the only way i could find this body for less than 200 bucks, was to buy a store demo which was pre built. So the build starts with tearing it apart from being built.
and i chose this body, because my neighbor and i built this car in real life.. and i ended up racing it for him since he is getting to old to crawl in and out of the roll cage. So i will be building it to replicate this...

YouTube Video

Lets get started with the before pictures!













had to take the dremel took and CUT the chassis off the body. was a pain in the ***. But got it off, had to cut the interior out as well. But got it out, and then had to cut the windows out as well! but they came out too. Nothing on this car is glued! its all molded!











Now the next pain in the ***. The entire interior was one solid mold. Nothing glued!! so i couldnt dissassemble it easily. So i pretty much said EFF IT! and am going to build the interior from scratch. All i really wanted was the dash and transmission tunnel. So i cut those out.






Cut the steering wheel off. Again... molded, Not glued.



sanded the tunnel down some.



New Racing Bucket that will be going in. and New steering wheel that will be going in.




Overal im kinda upset with the quality of this model. If i bought it to build, i would be extremely ****ed. Because there is nothing to build! its seriously 3 pieces. Body/windows/bumpers. Interior. Chassis/Wheels. Those three snap together and its done. its rediculous. But oh well, doesnt matter to much for this project, atleast its highly detailed

More coming in the next few days when the rest of my parts come.