The Green Goblin- My First Southern Buggy

[Colby]

Originally Posted by ecoli

I have a lot to live up to apparently I just build what I like, and I like southern buggies, a lot

Yeah, I noticed the 1/8 in the bracing areas. Probably a smart move, especially when dealing with such small pieces. It doesn't take away from the look at all.

Are you planning on rattle can or pc'ing the frame once finished?

Well... theres some rattle can green on it for now. I am going to drive it tomorrow at our hill climb competition and show it off a bit. Ive been dremeling on it all day I plan on sandblasting it back off when I get back, finish up the motor cage and see about getting it PC'd

Originally Posted by Szczerba

Now we're talking. Looks awesome.

Thanks Shane! Glad you like it!

[ScaleReady]

Good work man! Glad to see you branched out and went for it. Looks killer! I have turned down doing southern buggies like that before, because I feared I wouldn't do them justice. I redirected them to others who have them perfected. You did a nice job. Be proud of that sucker

[Colby]

Thanks man! I really appretiate that!!!

[Colby]

Well... Picked up a second place finish this weekend with my Goblin In our hillclimb competition I havent seen the scores yet, but I was told I got close to grabbing a first place finish, which would have topped off the weekend Ive had with this thing.



Yeah... showtime ramping the goblin


Pics should work now!

[Colby]

Heres a video from our comp courtesy of BTF. I forgot about this carnage... The kingpin screws came out of my chubs and my knuckle came off...
Southern Buggy Run - YouTube

[Bulldog]

Fun vid! Congrats on the 2nd place. Now bolt your sht back together and get back on the hills!

[Colby]

Thanks buddy! Im actually pulling it apart to finish some things up to make it alot more to my liking. May even cut some stuff off and redo it to make it closer to the real thing

[Colby]

Thank you sir! I have a good buddy of mine that lives about 30 mins from me who said hed powder coat it for me as long as i buy the paint so i dont have to worry about ahipping and them possibly losing my chassis. You look like you do some top knotch work! Grab a vendors star here and powder coat stuff for people.

[Farmer]

Excellent work on the chassis buddy Looks like you found your calling. Congrats on the hill climb.
Later,
Farmer

[Colby]

Thanks Farmer!! Glad you like it buddy!

Ive been working on my own spin on Jenny Craig the past 2 days. Got a few more tubes to do up but this is for my good buddy tyler. He picked up a stock wraith and i had this ready for it when we got back to my place with it:

[Farmer]

Damn dude, we should talk soon. Jenny looks bad ass also
Later,
Farmer

[Colby]

Haha ill shoot you a pm and give you my number. I dont want mods to think im trying to be a vendor or anything. Youre my buddy though, and thats the only people i am building these for.

[Grimreeper]

That one looks nice. It almost looks like the highlighter buggy.

[rojo]

Can't wait to see more of these southern buggies in our winter comp series!

[Colby]

Originally Posted by Grimreeper

That one looks nice. It almost looks like the highlighter buggy.

Thanks Johnny
Tyler painted it orange, but heres an RTR picture of it. It handles just like the goblin, its just a little lighter.

Originally Posted by rojo

Can't wait to see more of these southern buggies in our winter comp series!

Lol, ive gotten texts from a few that were at the first one saying "We need to talk" usually that is a bad thing, but yeah... Ive got some work to do. I say I only want to build them for my friends, so ALL of my friends message me...

I decided it was time to step into the interior and finally finish the rest of the welding up. I knew after I built this and put it on facebook and got like 800 likes on a picture with almost every comment as "I want one" that there will soon be more Green Goblins, so I had to try and go into as much detail as I could go to get mine to stand out.

So, I got a radiator from rojo, painted it, and welded 2 washers on a peice of 1/8 and ran it across the back of the interior of the cage, right where the real ones is.

Then made a simple seat mount for the wraith seats, they are just what I am going to use for now. Going to make a set of seats like the real goblin has soon.

Steering wheel mount. Steering wheel removes with a set screw

A look into the interior of the mini goblin. Its not finished, still have to make the guages and a small symetrical panel on both sides of the center bar (which connects to the seat mount)

Now for the motor cage
I had been looking at the rig earlier about what it was that actually sets it off and couldnt decide until I finished this up.

Its fully removable using 4/40 hardware (I didnt want to go any smaller in fear of breakage or something, and figured it being removable was scale enough.


Just need to button up some of the cage work and Im taking it to the sand blaster thursday, and hopefully get some Goblin green powder coat on the cage this weekend, along with some black on the motor cage.

Also tomorrow, I plan to break out the styrene and make a gas tank out behind the radiator to house my reciever and my ESC. Maybe make a scale LSX454 to toss under the hood, but that is REALLY pushing it

(sorry for the magazine article, thanks for taking the time to read everything if you did so)

[ScaleReady]

It's so cool that you are doing this shit on your own Not that I didn't enjoy building for you, I just like seeing everyone at least attempting to do it. I'm pretty sure we will be seeing more of your work on here in the future It's a disease, and you have it. Nice work Colby!

[Colby]

Originally Posted by ScaleReady

It's so cool that you are doing this shit on your own Not that I didn't enjoy building for you, I just like seeing everyone at least attempting to do it. I'm pretty sure we will be seeing more of your work on here in the future It's a disease, and you have it. Nice work Colby!

Thanks Phil! I really appreatiate that! I bet your real thoughts are "Bout time that fawker finally quit buggin me about a damn chassis" I know youll be seeing my work on here for a long time to come, whether anyone likes it or not, it's going to get posted because one day I am going to look back on my first build, my mid-way builds, my builds that didnt work out, and the ones like this one that I love and see where I have come in this hobby.

[Colby]

FINALLY!!! Got the video of my runs from the competition uploaded. I didnt think this video was going to load.. so I didnt edit it at all. Raw footage, and awesome commentary

[ScaleReady]

Cool video! That thing looks pretty good man! Need to build you some bombproof axles....

[Colby]

Thanks buddy! Some buttmunch from Washington is sending me some axles this week