Blue Truck gets a makeover

I found this bodyshell on eBay. I think it's a Proline Chevy Mini Rock Crawler shell, at least that was what the listing said, though I can't find another reference using this exact title in searching. I won and paid £1.24 for it undrilled and freshly painted as the second bidder, plus a fair bit (£6.99) for postage. It would seem a lot of eBayers are doing this to cover themselves pricewise whilst listing at a (lowest cost to themselves) 99p start price.




Since these photos were taken I've mounted the body properly using normal TL-01 touring car posts, and have made some little triangular plates to re-mount the bottoms of the shocks whilst giving me an extra bit of ground clearance. The aerial is now under the shell for a cleaner look, though this might need a bit of fiddling with as it seems to be causing a bit of glitching. This method worked fine on Sean's Army Truck, 'tho that was running a 27Mhz system and this is on 40Mhz with a (seemingly?) correspondingly longer aerial wire. No new motor yet - I did get one from the usual source, it was listed as a 'modified 45' but was actually a 19 turn triple wound MRI item. Oh well we'll see what I can afford come next pay-day!

UPDATE:

It's apparently a 1972 Chevy® C-10 body. They come in two sizes, for 1:10 and 1:18, both priced (unpainted) at £20.49 plus P+P on eBay.