Post pictures of your 79 ford crawlers

[Parkflyer]

Here's mine. It's the 79' ford body with a 77' grill. Kept it simple and little upgrades.

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by Hyde

Bump and an update, havent touched it in a few months but went to town on it the last couple weeks! Gearhead aluminum wheels, aluminum hi steer knuckles, metal gear servo and metal horn, traded out my ghetto homebrew droop axial shocks for G Made Transitions, built a front bumper

Love the truck! The scx10 super cab 79 ford build went through. ended up trading it for a short course truck and that's were I'm at. I haven't touched my truck in a little while, really would like to do some upgrades but don't have the money right now.

[canadianbacon]

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by canadianbacon

I love your truck! what did you do for water proofing the electronics? I'm looking to put a little water proof box in my truck to hold the esc and receiver. My problem is I cant fit it between the body posts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[canadianbacon]

Originally Posted by 79SCX10

I love your truck! what did you do for water proofing the electronics? I'm looking to put a little water proof box in my truck to hold the esc and receiver. My problem is I cant fit it between the body posts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks man. All I did for waterproofing is use an XL-5 ESC lol, I didn't touch the servo as it's been dunked before numerous times and still works great. I put the receiver in the radio box under the front battery tray in the location, and the ESC is just on a piece of styrene zip-tied the the posts holding my slider.

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by canadianbacon

Thanks man. All I did for waterproofing is use an XL-5 ESC lol, I didn't touch the servo as it's been dunked before numerous times and still works great. I put the receiver in the radio box under the front battery tray in the location, and the ESC is just on a piece of styrene zip-tied the the posts holding my slider.

Thanks for the help! I really want to get mine out and crawling but I don't want to fry the esc because its not waterproof.

[canadianbacon]

Originally Posted by 79SCX10

Thanks for the help! I really want to get mine out and crawling but I don't want to fry the esc because its not waterproof.

I hear ya, that why I brought that one out, my Super Duty has my Holmes equipment that isn't waterproofed.

[FrostLude]

Just finished this one last night.. still have to have a bed but it came out ok. It never fails tho if you spend countless hours trying to make a nice clean body it always messes up haha

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by canadianbacon

I hear ya, that why I brought that one out, my Super Duty has my Holmes equipment that isn't waterproofed.

I ended up using one of my plastic servo boxes and I mounted it up on the chassis. I'm going to be putting the esc and receiver in it. Can't wait to test it!

[OSRC]

Rebuilt/refreshed my SCX10 over the winter. Shrank the WB and dropped on the regular cab. LOVE the look of this body, though after mounting it up, kinda wish I had gone with the extended cab. Rear bumper and interior still need to be done.

Will never be this shiny again...

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by OSRC

Rebuilt/refreshed my SCX10 over the winter. Shrank the WB and dropped on the regular cab. LOVE the look of this body, though after mounting it up, kinda wish I had gone with the extended cab. Rear bumper and interior still need to be done.

Will never be this shiny again...

I hear ya, my body was like that then hit a few rocks then I said oh well. It's a rock crawler. Truck looks good!

[FrostLude]

Needless to say I ended up using the wrong Tamyia paint.. Tried using paint remover cause I ordered another body and it just ruined the body.. So I painted the windows black and the rest brown hahahaha looks absolutley horrid.

[79SCX10]

Originally Posted by FrostLude

Needless to say I ended up using the wrong Tamyia paint.. Tried using paint remover cause I ordered another body and it just ruined the body.. So I painted the windows black and the rest brown hahahaha looks absolutley horrid.

That sucks, now you have to start all over again. You should use that body as a beater body and save the other one.

[AkronAxial]

Before and after pics, WOW what a difference!!! HPI '79 F150 body. A tribute to my gradfather's truck that he loved so much. RIP to them both, the truck outlived him but he passed 20 years ago this year. At any rate, the paint is identical, so is the stance, he would be proud!!! The body will be taking its maiden voyage this weekend

[Gula]

Originally Posted by jeffunone

hey what tires are those? been looking for a set like that for my rig

They can also be called road dawgs. At least that's what mine say on the sidewalk

[79SCX10]

Bump, lets see some more of those 79 fords or older fords lol.

[Cyric78]

Here's a couple of my 79, a buddy's ranger, and another buddy's bronco

[mannyb1982]

[mannyb1982]

[jerrodww1974]

This one was named '79 Ford Tough