Lego Series III 109" pickup

[cbass]

My brother was putting together some lego's the other night and he thought it would be a good idea to build a replica 109" pickup just for good times. Here's the finished product. Pretty good I'd say!!

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Flexin' a little
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Real open diffs (he couldn't find any Lego ARB's LOL!
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Gas, brake, and clutch pedals too!!
http://img291.echo.cx/img291/2360/pict03269rt.jpg


Pretty good for building it from scratch, eh?

 

[Jaime]

Damnn! and he dropped a V8 in there as well!

Nice job!

 

[NorCalDiscoII]

Cool! All you need to do now is test it out on a trail. Just attach one of those jet engines to it. These guys did

 

[RBBailey]

that Lego truck even has an authentic Rover paint job



Ya, those rocket engines make for a lot of fun when you attach them to things... they weren't originally supposed to be attached to. We have a few videos like that in our family library -- you know, three brothers living on a small farm -- lots to do.

 

[Randy]

Tell me your brother is 7 years old and I'll be REALLY impressed!!

 

[Dan Ratcliffe]

Did you know that in thw 60' and 70's Bluebird orange juice came in cans that a golf ball would just fit in. If you tape a half dozen Bluebird orange juice cans end to end and tape a golf ball to the end of an estes rocket, you have a pretty nice little weapon. By scraping out the packing at the end, and replacing the golf ball with a sandwich baggy filled with lighter fluid you had a great little incendiary device. The charge that was designed to blow out a recovery chute would ignite thelighter fluid. Doing the same thing and taping a half dozen fire crackers, fuzes against the chute charge, you could deliver a nice little anti personnel device.

These were clearly fire and forget weapons. You fired and forget hinting what you were aiming at as the ballistics sucked. You had to adopt the "The whole world is a target" philosphy.

 

[antichrist]

Christ Dan, I'm not paranoid, but don't be surprised if the FBI shows up at your door. People are wacked out about posting stuff like that on the web.

That's why I never discuss my classes in Flammable Hazardous Materials and Explosive and Toxic Hazardous Materials courses I've taken. (given by a government agency for our FD, for those Homeland Security lurkers)

 

[Dan Ratcliffe]

Yeah, and that was before your tax dollars were put to work refining those skills.