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Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

and it smply amazes me how you keep coming up with all of these rare parts to build these trucks so quickly.

A couple months ago I sold a old guitar that I thought was worth about $10 and was worthy of the dumpster until I started doing some homework on it and found it was a 1920 Lap Steel guitar and it was worth some loot! So I was able to buy a lot of this stuff after that, otherwise I would of not had the cash to be able to do so. That is what sparked this project up. My moms roommate gave it to me after his Aunt died when I still played guitar a lot, I have been sitting on it for probably 10 yrs and never knew what I had. Fetched me enough to complete a truck to run with Austin.

I had the towers, wing mount, lower a arms, servo skid, shocks and center skid. I was able to buy the wheels, knuckles, Gen IV and chassis from a great guy who was kind enough to sell them to me. Upper a arms from the UE store, diff cases were on Ebay a while back. GA bulks and F/R skids straight from the source, I always see people saying these are rare and hard to come by when you can buy them brand new in package from GA still. ...haha! Tie rods I traded for and the monoblock you talked me into buying Jerry!! That came from the UE store as well.

All the a arms are lower and upper front Racer X arms w/ EXT 16mm knuckles, the knuckles cost a mint let me tell ya. I had a set of Spyder 6's and a bunch of spare parts from a used Spyder 8 for the center diff. I had to buy a spur gear for it and I had got a parts lot from Ebay last summer for that diff and a donor diff from a local club member. I had bought the center diff mount last year for a different project so that is already black and got one from a great member here so that non anodized one is going with that truck for now. One guy on RCMT was looking for IMEX Jumbo wheels and tires so I offered up the plastic Diamond rims I had because that was all I had. I traded off my IMEX Jumbo Maxx tires that I just loved to get some other parts last year and regretted it but it was done so no big deal right, then Tad offers him a set of tires that I just loved and that dude already bought some so I was able to score those for this build. These rims are the same ones that are on the Silver EMaxx on the old UE Website on the wheels page, pretty cool for sure.

I cannot wait to get started on it but we gotta wait till she comes back from the spa......