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Itali83

Well, got a deal on a nice used body from eBay. Kinda famous body at that. Seen it in many YouTube videos from the guys at spare time hobbies. Been looking to possibly build a scale truck with interior, driver, and some cage work.







My favorite style K5 is the GMC Jimmy. '87 model year mostly because that was my first truck but also because of the grill style, throttle body injection, and that's about it lol. I'd take any year K5 that was rust free so dont get me wrong, I love them all. I also love the '73-75 model because they had the full removable top like the first gens did. Always wanted to build a 1:1 '87 with full removable top but living in Maine with a summer lasting anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 months, not really feasible. I digress...

So, what better way to show off interior, driver, and cage work!? A topless Jimmy of course! I didn't hesitate one minute to start cutting and going topless.





Came with a pretty nice 3D printed dash so I don't have to make one!



Here it is just sitting on my 1.9 linked frame just for fun.




I'm thinking it's going to be another 1.55 truck. Leafs in the rear, links in the front. Gotta have motor up front for room for interior. Going to be a super slow build as this is all I've got. I don't want to change my other two truck as they work so well and I hate changing things that work. So, I'm going to keep my eyes open for dirt cheap parts to hopefully build something from this body someday. Mainly looking for a chassis to start so I can lay things out. I've got a spare transmission but may go another route for that. Hopefully the ascender 2.0 comes out soon so the OG parts will be cheap lol. Kinda want to do the full scale look with spare tires, sand ramps, crate on top junk hanging off from it etc. hopefully the lexan body will help with weight but I really don't care. The Rc4wd body was very tempting but it has its own visual problems that need addressing and it's not my favorite front end style and I didn't feel comfortable hacking up an expensive body to learn styrene skills on lol. Oh well, this thread will probably be very slow but figured I'd share my new body and cutting skills so far.

Ben


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