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    Quote Originally Posted by Phatmiata View Post
    That thread is exactly what I had in mind when typing that up lol

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    Played with a couple cars this weekend. The new 599xx was begging for a wheel swap, I sourced the wheels from the Boulevard Ferrari F40 as I had found a bunch at Ollie's over the past few weeks. I think I like it better with this color and wheels vs. the Super:



    Popped a little color into the interior:



    I was only going to do a wheel swap on the Civic:



    But ended up adding some minor details here too:

    I've got a lot less horsepower - luckily they are Japanese horses - usually in better shape and more motivated.

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    I FINALLY found those 2 cars today!!!

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    Some wheel swaps and phone pix.


    I've wanted to swap this one forever but couldn't decide on the wheels. I finally drilled a Boulevard Fiesta and liberated it of these 6 spokes. They're a dead ringer for the wheels in the movie, just with +1 spoke.


    Escort RS1600. Wheels are from an Olds Aurora. I detailed the nose, chopped off 2 lights, and painted the 2 remaining rally lights.


    Tail. Painted lights, trunk latches, and plate area (badly).


    The chrome interior is now black except for the shift knob and wheel spokes.

    and lastly...


    This little MR-S is in blind bags right now. I had no idea it was tooned out so much but kinda fell in love with it when it tumbled out of the bag. When I found the Real Rider Datsuns and other cars, I grabbed a blue wagon thing because the wheels looked to be about the right size for the Spyder.

    I drilled the blue wagon thing without a second thought.

    Wheels went on and were the right size. AWESOME!!! Then I went to lookup the wagon thing to see what its proper name was.

    Then I discovered the Chevy Greenbrier Sports Wagon did not, in fact, have mismatched wheels. The style on the back was correct. They were supposed to also be on the front. Instead, mine had these 5 spokes.

    I opened and drilled a wheel error.

    ugh.

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    They look great!!! I want to start making some wheels swaps. Where do you get the new screws??

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    I just snap them back together and then glue them.

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    When swapping out wheels do you always have to pull Real Riders off other cars or does someone / supplier sell them?

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    RRs come off other cars. I've seen them for sale in customization packs, but they're usually pretty stupid expensive. And selection is never what you want. Better to grab extras of cars you like the wheels on.

    I cut them off donor cars with a dremel and cut off wheel. Just a quick slice down the center breaks the 3 grabber teeth free and lets the wheel + axle come out.

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    Go ahead and jump in Corifto, the water's cool and so are the cars. Thanks to RotorNutFD3S, and Adam and Paul B for the info. Also Thx to to Eric and his DCPI website, used it and I found some RRs at Target today and bought extras to pull wheels from. Building up and saving a supply for this winter and do customs and want to try and build a diorama. I was pretty good at building models when i was a kid, maybe I'm going thru a 2nd childhood??? Can I blame Phat for this to??
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    I normally just glue my cars back together too, but I saw this video recently and I'm keen to try this. It would be good to build cars to playable quality.



    Edit: Some cars like the Hot Wheels Miata don't always glue back together successfully, as there must be tension between the top and bottom halves. This method looks like it would work well on cars like the Miata.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TNRooster3 View Post
    maybe I'm going thru a 2nd childhood??? Can I blame Phat for this to??
    Yup, this is all Phat's fault.
    I've got a lot less horsepower - luckily they are Japanese horses - usually in better shape and more motivated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TNRooster3 View Post
    maybe I'm going thru a 2nd childhood??? Can I blame Phat for this to??

    Quote Originally Posted by RotorNutFD3S View Post
    Yup, this is all Phat's fault.


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    Lately my local Hot Wheels hauling has not been very fruitful. Going to the stores just to see that a hoarder/collector/scalper has taken every last one of the car I want and leaving all the junk behind makes my spirits low. Most of those trips see me leaving with a monster truck or two to make custom Bigfoot trucks and some other old school trucks.

    Hot Wheels has not made a Bigfoot die cast since the very early 90s. Other companies have tried to make Bigfoot die cast since then but none of them really caught my eye as something Id like to collect. The HW Monster Jam trucks are abundant and can be had for less then $4. Add an old school Ford casting, a bunch of hours of work and you have a custom made Bigfoot.

    Here are the Bigfoots that I have made so far, minus a few of my early efforts that I have traded or sold. Basically I am trying to make each truck that I remember from my childhood.

    The last picture is a diorama with a quick little old-school track I made out of scrap household construction materials.

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    NICE! I dig that small-wheel Bigfoot quite a lot. Especially the diorama.

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