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A customer came in with this today, it's a soldered wire frame car powered by two rocket motors and the body is pressed from heavy duty Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil using a Motor Max die cast '79 Lebaron Wagon as a form to shape the aluminum over. The car has some heft to it, mainly the wheels (drawer rollers), tires (rubber rings from American Science and Surplus), and axles (1/4-24 all thread), the car even has a front suspension and a sprung wheely bar using the internal spring steel of a wiper blade, but the body weighs next to nothing. He's going to e-mail me some pics after it's "launched", the shell may look like a foil ball at that point.......
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This method could make for fun late model style bodies on 1/10, 1/18, and 1/36 scale stadium trucks and buggies that would actually crumple if something goes "wrong"Big Grin
see if he can get you a vid of the launch!!!!