Vintage Dunwell Buckeye

[ZaneC]

Just wanted to share this little project. It's non RC but still a build of sorts. Took me around 45 minutes. It's a 50s Dunwell Buckeye. Used to be blue and had a bed. Here's some pics.

Here's what it looked like in the beginning...

It had this nasty bend in the roof. At first I couldn't figure out how to get it out, but then...

I realized most everything was held together via tabs.

So I took it all apart.

The blue underneath the grill was pristine!

Here's the finished product. It might not look all that different at first glance, but it's perfectly clean; no spider webs or dirt anywhere, axles roll super smooth, and no more dents. Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

-ZaneC

 

[Tunedfrog]

Very cool, there's a couple guys on youtube that I watch and they are pretty amazing a restoration.

 

[WickedFog]

You did a great job of fixing that up! I love the old vintage metal trucks!

 

[ZaneC]

Very cool, there's a couple guys on youtube that I watch and they are pretty amazing a restoration.

Chip Channel Restorations partly inspired me to fix this up.

You did a great job of fixing that up! I love the old vintage metal trucks!

Thanks man. More of these builds should come up soon. Hint: Structo.

I do wanna say I'm sorry that some of the pics are blurry.

 

[Doom!]

I do wanna say I'm sorry that some of the pics are blurry.

Well just don't let it happen again! Very cool project.

 

[9x19]

Nicely done!