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This car wasn't supposed to happen. I had cut off my "new cars" limit for the year, but I had the OG Invader chassis just sitting there, a ton of spare parts, and I wanted to try 3d printing some parts to see if they would work/hold up.
I also had another reason. My brother in law had(has) stage 4 lung cancer. He was diagnosed in 2018, and after some surgeries to remove tumors from his brain where it had spread to, a lot of treatments, the cancer has been miraculously held in check since then. He's had an interest in my nitro drag racing for some years, and has been coming out to watch, and help out setting up the track at times. He was looking at buying/building a car, but his wife put a stop to it, apparently he already spends enough money on golf. (I say let the man live it up, who knows how much longer he's got - though the doctors seem optimistic he could hang around quite a while actually, which is pretty amazing considering the initial prognosis). I thought about just buying him one myself, but my wife (his sister) thought that might hurt his pride a bit. So, I thought of maybe building a "team" car, that he or anyone else who's car was down, or maybe some wives could drive. A car that if it crashed, I could just print out new stuff and not have to spend a lot of money fixing, given it would probably be driven by "newbies". So this car is "sort of" for him, and I hope he enjoys beating the hell out of it
Got a little more to do on it yet, but it's a few days away from an initial test. Still trying to figure out how a "budget" build still costs a few hundred dollars.
I accidentally cut the rocker panels off, dang lines were so faint I didn't see them. I'm gonna cut some strips and screw them on, should be ok.
I also had another reason. My brother in law had(has) stage 4 lung cancer. He was diagnosed in 2018, and after some surgeries to remove tumors from his brain where it had spread to, a lot of treatments, the cancer has been miraculously held in check since then. He's had an interest in my nitro drag racing for some years, and has been coming out to watch, and help out setting up the track at times. He was looking at buying/building a car, but his wife put a stop to it, apparently he already spends enough money on golf. (I say let the man live it up, who knows how much longer he's got - though the doctors seem optimistic he could hang around quite a while actually, which is pretty amazing considering the initial prognosis). I thought about just buying him one myself, but my wife (his sister) thought that might hurt his pride a bit. So, I thought of maybe building a "team" car, that he or anyone else who's car was down, or maybe some wives could drive. A car that if it crashed, I could just print out new stuff and not have to spend a lot of money fixing, given it would probably be driven by "newbies". So this car is "sort of" for him, and I hope he enjoys beating the hell out of it
Got a little more to do on it yet, but it's a few days away from an initial test. Still trying to figure out how a "budget" build still costs a few hundred dollars.
I accidentally cut the rocker panels off, dang lines were so faint I didn't see them. I'm gonna cut some strips and screw them on, should be ok.
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Seriously, this a cool move on your part, I hope it all goes as planned. It's always more fun when you can share. 
