TL-01 chassis F150 Baja Truck [Now SOLD]

August 2008: This started out as a £15 boot-sale bargain chassis with a tatty Impreza shell. I found a F150 Truck body and wheel set NIB on eBay and customised the mounting posts to fit everything together.

The spot lights are from an old Blackfoot, and the nerf bar is the roll hoop off a cheap buggy - parts I had stored since the early 90's! I've since removed the nerf bar lower stays and mounted the spotlight bar directly to the radiator grille, and fitted M series bumpers to the chassis front and rear (also the battery clips are missing in the pictures). The stickers are part of the original F150 set, but placed differently - I didn't want to try and replicate the box art. I chose the colours as I like the similar Toyota Prerunner kit, but put my own twist on it.

This is my first lexan shell, and it was fun to mask it to get the result I wanted, but I would prefer to work with hard plastic to be honest - so have bought a Blackfoot Extreme shell which will either replace this, or be built up on another TL-01 chassis, and I'll keep this one as is as a runner... Jx