jebster's tonka truck rc conversion

[jebster]

Great display of rc engineering and form. Super cool layouts, designs and looks!

I appreciate that being familiar with some of the wonders you have come up with. What I like most about these is trying to keep the original tonka look as much as I can while still making them functional.

 

[jebster]

The neat part about Tonka, is there was specialty lines that they made. Sadly they were lower production and harder to find but I recall:

• Military Jeeps and Trucks
• "Bell System" Telco trucks
• Chevron truck and tanker
• Fire Apparatus
• Tow trucks and vehicle transports w/ trailers.
  
  Personally, I'd love to see you take on a T-6 Dozer/Back hoe unit, and the Crawler Crane.

I've been trying to stick to the same class of tonka so far. Some of the other vintage lines are a little smaller scale.

What I do have is a road grader I picked up that might be next. I'm on the lookout for the tow truck in this line. There is also a truck and trailer combo were the trailer is a belly dumper but the prices I see for those is way beyond what I'll spend for the base of this type of project.