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f you were to walk around the pit area here at BigSquidRC you would see that we pretty much mount up any type of body to any type of vehicle. You will find we touring car bodies on monster trucks, and monster truck bodies on touring cars. And we aren’t alone, many bashers like putting all sorts of crazy bodies [...]
If you are going for the trickest, absolutely most scale authentic looking vehicle possible, you just can not have ugly clips securing your body. TheToyz now makes it easy to use magnets or velcro to secure the lid on your drifter/touring car with their adjustable stealth body mounts. Made from aluminum, the stealth body mounts are easy to install and [...]
Figuring out where to drill the mounting holes on your freshly painted touring car body can be a real hassle so PROTOform has a new kit that should make it a whole lot easier. PROTOform’s new Crosshair Body Mounting Kit uses magnets to help you perfectly align and mark the holes before you drill. * Uses high powered magnets for [...]
One of our favorite innovations of the last couple of years has been the Pro-Line Thumbwasher sets. These replace traditional body clips and won’t fall off and get lost during a hard bash session. They also help keep your body from ripping out around the body post. The Pro-Line crew has incorporated their Thumbwasher sets into their new Extended Body Mounts [...]
When Pro-Line first introduced their extended body mounts that used Thumbwashers instead of body clips we were instantly in love. You see the BigSquidRC Bash Crew loses literally thousands of body clips each year and we are sick and tired of buying more. Pro-Line Thumbwashers (part number #6070-02, $5) are superior to regular body clips in a couple of ways- 1. They [...]
Isn’t it amazing how you can go out for an easy bash session, barely hit anything, and come back missing one (or more) body clips? Most of the BigSquidRC Bash Crew has made the switch over to Pro-Line Thumbwashers so we don’t have to worry about losing body clips anymore, but for those of you that have not JConcepts might [...]
Do you hate body clips as much as we do? Have you been looking for a sano way of securing your body without any visible clips? TheToyz has announced their new Magnetic Stealth Body Mounts. Say goodbye to lost body clips and ground-down body posts forever, TheToyz stealth mounting system uses magnets to secure the body. Finally you can have that [...]
The crew over at Pro-Line have just posted a new video showing you the step-by-step process of installing their extended body mounts on your short course truck. From cracking open the bag to the final touches, they walk you through every step to make sure your new body mounts go on perfectly. We’ve used the Pro-Line extended mounts on several projects [...]
Bashers often times mount up bodies that were never intended to go on their trucks. For example, one of the members of our BigSquidRC Bash Crew is known for running car bodies on his Savage to get a custom look. Dynamite has introduced a product that makes it easy to mark body holes for those custom installs. The Dynamite EZ [...]
Sometimes it’s the small things that get us the most excited. As if their new performance transmission for the Slash and Stampede wasn’t big enough news, Pro-Line is also showing, for the first time, these new clipless body mounts. Rather than using a traditional body clip to hold the body on the post, these new mounts have a twist on [...]
