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That car is actually a combination of several cars, well, at least the body panels are. It started as a 1983 Monte Carlo LS, but, my brother has a knack for sourcing complete G-body cars for body panels, so, it has Monte Carlo doors and quarters, Buick fenders, and, dont ask me why, but a cut down 84 Caprice hood. The nose is a race spec fiberglass reproduction, which is what most of the guys we run with that use G-body cars do. Noone likes to run a stock, original SS nose. We typically buy 2 or 3 G-body cars every spring (most of them are junk, thanks to N.Y. winters, so they arent worth putting on the road), strip them, and use the body panels for our car, and sell the rest. The G-body is actually very popular around here, so, during the summer it isnt uncommon to see an impromptu car show that has 30 or more of them in attendance.Love the g body. My buddy used to have an 87 ss. 427, turbo 400, grand national rear with the 4.11, and acura interior. I always wanted one.
I just realized what you said about the Chinese brands after going back through this. I was looking at a 1/10TH buggy from WLToys, but could never seem to find parts for it, so i picked up a DHK Hobby Wolf 2 instead. One of my neighbors had a couple WLToys smaller scale stuff, and they kept breaking on him. As for total cost for my fleet of HSP cars, i would be afraid to total up what i have spent on them. I currently have 4 road cars, 3 rally cars, and am building a 4TH, and two rarely used drift cars. I like to build one a certain way, and, instead of tearing it apart and building it another way, i just buy a new chassis kit, typically from eBay or Aliexpress. I also use that same basic chassis to build MT's and buggies for my nephews and nieces, since I'm never sure how long they will stick with it. Most of them always seem to gravitate to electronics at some point, and the car then either gets sold, or i end up back with it.I personally have probably $1000 or more worth of cheap Chinese RC's. From WLToys, Feiyue, WPL, HG, and even some name brands I can't ever remember how to spell. Every one of them work, and have for years, except the WPL stuff that is only down because I mod them to the point they aren't any brand name anymore
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