1970s Dodge Tradesman kustom van

[frizzen]

I really need another unfinished project hanging around until i can figure out some type of parts because i'm too stubborn to just buy a kit...

I seem to like Vans.
Alaintérieur over on Scale4x4 posted up his upcoming next amazing van project, and mentioned some Ampro guy was drawing parts. Then somehow a Tamiya Lunchbox body, with glass and chrome trees showed up in my mail. It wasn't easily adaptable to any donors i have hanging around. Looking into that somehow turned into me getting a set of 1/16 scale AMC Pacers.

A friend of mine was showing me some cad things he was making, and how excited he was to be getting a new tame robot friend. With his newly housebroken robot, it was soon pooping out some scenery for his Dungeons&Dragons adventures. I asked if his magical pooping robot might be able to push out some things for me.

I ordered some electrons to feed it from here:

Chassis
https://www.myminifactory.com/object...wpl-cars-96208
Wheels
https://www.myminifactory.com/object...slot-mag-96209
Grill
https://www.myminifactory.com/object...-bumpers-96206

Then a while later he starts bringing some robot poop to sift through


His robot is small enough it shouldn't be too destructive when google skynet takes over, so i had to splice the chassis halves together.


Wpl trans mount goes into chassis mounts, chassis melts together, chassis goes into body. It all fits like it's supposed to.


So current plan is a Street Van: street ride height, cool rims, fancy paint, and bubble windows. Find something in hobby shop to hopefully Cut&Shut into some maybe 50-70 series looking tires. It involves wpl 1/16 truck axles and trans. I'd like to go just RWD instead of 4wd. Maybe some lights later, probably a bluetooth speaker, maybe even some extra servos to do odd things.

One huge benefit of the Lunchbox is the body has been made since 1987 and you can get it everywhere. Easily swappable bodies pull 4 screws, and change your outlook man. Today i'm going 70s Vanning in the Shaggin Wagon, tomorrow it might be a work van, maybe i can even get a model 'Possum Van' signed if Red Green does another tour...

Keep the positive waves. There's gonna be a bridge.