Well, last year was a really good year for Guido. He won the Scale Concourse award in Montana (people’s favorite); he ended up winning the Holmes Hobbies show off contest and is featured on the Holmes Hobbies website; the Japanese photographer, Yuski, took a picture of him at the Rccrawler Nationals in Moab and so there is a picture of Guido in World RC magazine; and finally JIA asked if I would send Guido to him for a photo shoot.
I appreciate all the kind words everyone has for Guido but despite that there were some flaws that I couldn’t live with any longer. When JIA contacted me I had seen the Wyatt Racing Bronco featured in RC Driver and I knew Guido wasn’t up to that level but I thought I could get a little closer. So I asked JIA for some time to redo some things. Well months have passed and I have struggled with how to make Guido truly meet the vision I had for him.
The first problem was tires, this is supposed to be a Top Truck Challenge rig so it needs at least 44” tall tires to fit the build right but the tallest, most scale looking tire I could find was the Axial Rock Lizards and they only scaled out to 40” tall. Well, I’ve finally found the solution to the basic problem; progress has been happening for the last few months but now things are really going to start rolling.
First things I did was build some new front shock mounts and upper coil buckets. I really didn’t like the way I had mounted the shocks before but like a lot of things, it was done to get it done in time for scale meet in Montana last year. I really like the new hoops with the desert truck mounting plate, complete with speed holes.
Then I cut off the top of the cage. The cage was made short on purpose to make it look more hot rodish but after dieselfuel pointed it out I began to notice that it made the rest of the body seem too wide and long. I added about 1/4” to the A pillars, built new B pillars and added in a new section for the rear kickers. I also began to notice how bent up things got from the fall off the workbench in Ben’s shop so more triangulation was needed.
I built some new rear upper spring buckets and tied them into the cage for more support.
More to come, thanks for checking it out. "thumbsup"
I appreciate all the kind words everyone has for Guido but despite that there were some flaws that I couldn’t live with any longer. When JIA contacted me I had seen the Wyatt Racing Bronco featured in RC Driver and I knew Guido wasn’t up to that level but I thought I could get a little closer. So I asked JIA for some time to redo some things. Well months have passed and I have struggled with how to make Guido truly meet the vision I had for him.
The first problem was tires, this is supposed to be a Top Truck Challenge rig so it needs at least 44” tall tires to fit the build right but the tallest, most scale looking tire I could find was the Axial Rock Lizards and they only scaled out to 40” tall. Well, I’ve finally found the solution to the basic problem; progress has been happening for the last few months but now things are really going to start rolling.
First things I did was build some new front shock mounts and upper coil buckets. I really didn’t like the way I had mounted the shocks before but like a lot of things, it was done to get it done in time for scale meet in Montana last year. I really like the new hoops with the desert truck mounting plate, complete with speed holes.
Then I cut off the top of the cage. The cage was made short on purpose to make it look more hot rodish but after dieselfuel pointed it out I began to notice that it made the rest of the body seem too wide and long. I added about 1/4” to the A pillars, built new B pillars and added in a new section for the rear kickers. I also began to notice how bent up things got from the fall off the workbench in Ben’s shop so more triangulation was needed.
I built some new rear upper spring buckets and tied them into the cage for more support.
More to come, thanks for checking it out. "thumbsup"
This truck is awesome. It's an inspiration to say the least.
