tribute to the legendary bruiser/mountaineer RC4WD bruiser
 

the story about this chassis
i've been looking for an original vintage tamiya bruiser or mountaineer for a long time now but didn't find any satisfying offer. suddenly, i saw quite a cheap 'buy now' auction of rc4wd's bruiser chassis in the big bay. well, didn't know that the chassis is more or less a 'replica' of tamiya's most famous chassis until i started assembling...
had to do some body post mods to make the body fit like that, with the original body posts it would have been much higher on the chassis and the body would have been too much in front.
by the way, in the meantime, i found an original undriven bruiser and an original bruiser body. both will have to be restored and both will be shelf queens, tamiyas famous and rc4wds new chassis. will post up some pics, but will take some time...
still waiting for the original vintage bumpers and nerf bars, but quite nice at the moment i think
the car will be a shelf queen, after assembling, i thought it won't be driveable without any big suspension mods, sorry to the designer and developer...

here are some hi-res pics to enjoy
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_01.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_02.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_03.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_04.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_05.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_08.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_12.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_15.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_16.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_17.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_19.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_07.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_06.JPG
as you can see, it is the rc4wd chassis
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_11.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_13.JPG
http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...bruiser_14.JPG

:shock:wow that is the most bad a$$ bruiser/mountaineer i have ever seen, besides the crazy scale ones but that just looks totaly awsome. good job! please tell me that is a shelf queen. i just has to be."thumbsup"

Did you even read what he wrote or just look at the pics??:roll:


Very nice rig by the way"thumbsup"

Nope.







Very nice looking rig, I wished I could get my hands on an O.G. Mounty.

Awesome color choice!

looks amazing, paint the inside of the body flat black.

Nice very nice work

such as this one? will have to b restored a little (pre owner sticked a ugly sticker on the hood) but it's undriven as well. bought in 1986 :-) found it on a local web auction last week, i'm the happiest man in the world....

http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...r/DSCF5869.JPG

http://www.team-energy.ch/httpdocs/p...r/DSCF5870.JPG

put those two in a shelf where they belong"thumbsup"

and after 5-10 years sell it for a car. haha

Very nice trucks man."thumbsup" You are either really lucky or loaded with money to have two of them.:lol:

Justin

Very nice pair indeed. I never owned any shelf queens. I don't have that much self control.

i know just relaxe its called a joke

got quite much luck with both pieces. and don't forget, the yellow one is not an original tamiya chassis, it's a great RC4WD replica.