Stretched e-Muggy (Baja-style) Build Thread

[brian015]

As I've been rebuilding this, I've gotten the itch to build another "larger scale" truck. I love the Muggy/LST2 platform, and for budgetary reasons want to stick with it, so I'm planning on doing a monster-truck style build that would incorporate the following:

1. Castle 1717 - I couldn't pass up the Castle sale and now want to use one of these in a larger build. I figure it weighs almost as much as my 1527 so it could handle a truck of similar size (maybe 17 or so pounds).
2. MMM on 6s
3. RC8T CD w/54t spur - I already bought one of these because I like the large spur which should make mounting up the 1717 very doable.
4. 1/5 scale tires - I just love the look of these large tires
5. room for two 6s packs run in parallel for good run time and current output.
6. approximately 17 inch wheelbase

Now my main question is what body should I use? I'd like to choose a body before I build this so I can get the wheelbase the right length (I could probably do anything 16.5 inches or longer - but don't want this to be baja 5t length). This will probably fall in the 1/6 category. I'd like to find something more interesting than a pick-up truck body, but would settle on that if need be. So if anyone has good ideas for bodies of this size, please let me know.