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Axial Jeep Beach Bomber [READER’S RIDE]

Axial Jeep Beach Bomber [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Would you believe this nicely decked out Axial SCX10 II Jeep Wrangler Unlimited was Peter Lundberg’s very first foray into trail and scale? He had a vision of the look he wanted and he did his research before deciding on the SCX10 II. But […]
Rat Wraith Reborn! [READER’S RIDE]

Rat Wraith Reborn! [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear!   Way back in 2015 we first featured Aaron Bailey’s metal-body Rat Wraith 1.9, but he has reinvented the truck so we figured it was worth another look. It’s got a new set of body panels, new paint, plus new custom bumpers and sliders […]

Custom Retro Monster Truck “Giant 1” [READER’S RIDE]

Custom Retro Monster Truck “Giant 1” [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! We really dig the retro look of Blake Egdamin’s custom 1/10 monster truck patterned after the old Giant 1 Ford. It is built off of a Grund Motorsports retro chassis and uses Tamiya Hi-Lift leaf springs with axles and transmission from a HPI Wheely […]
Axial Yeti with B.J. Baldwin’s Trophy Truck colors [READER’S RIDES]

Axial Yeti with B.J. Baldwin’s Trophy Truck colors [READER’S RIDES]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear!   Karel de Koning’s Axial Yeti XL comes to us all the way from The Netherlands, but it was inspired by B.J. Baldwin’s Monster Energy-sponsored Trophy Truck, and most of the upgrades follow that theme—starting with the racing livery. He painted the wheels Monster […]

Online Coverage Of The 1st Off-Road Carpet Classic [VIDEO]

Online Coverage Of The 1st Off-Road Carpet Classic [VIDEO]

Last weekend I headed down to Island Speedway to attend their 1st Annual Off-Road Carpet Classic. This indoor track is located in Muscatine, IA and has been running for about two years now. This special two day event started on Friday with practice from 8am to 10pm. I arrived around 10:30am and looked to secure […]
MST Bronco Big Oly Tribute [READER’S RIDE]

MST Bronco Big Oly Tribute [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Jeremy Kilburn has a fondness for winged trucks. He got an original Tamiya Blazing Blazer way back in 1988 as a kid, which he still owns today — and drives once a year just to blow the dust off. He decided he wanted a […]

BP Custom Power Wagon [READER’S RIDE]

BP Custom Power Wagon [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Cameron McLean implored us to take a look at his Dodge Power Wagon build, but with the gorgeous photos to match the retro-cool style of his truck, he could totally have played it cool and we still would have picked him for Reader’s Rides. Any […]
Tamiya Bullhead Retro Super Pete [READER’S RIDE]

Tamiya Bullhead Retro Super Pete [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Wayne Popluhar competes in the Retro class with his Super Pete, so the modifications to the Tamiya Bullhead are pretty limited by class rules. He beefed up the chassis with a CPE center plate, as well as CPE parts for the front steering and […]

This NOS Tamiya Clod Buster is Concourse Quality [READER’S RIDE]

This NOS Tamiya Clod Buster is Concourse Quality [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Jeff DeWitt’s buddy Chris Nissen submitted this Clod Buster on Jeff’s behalf that he built for the concourse at the Vintage Off Road Nationals. Jeff built it entirely from New Old Stock vintage parts still in the packages, starting with the CCP cases, axle […]
Custom Caddy Clod-Pounder Hearse [READER’S RIDE]

Custom Caddy Clod-Pounder Hearse [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear!   The body on this wild-looking monster truck hearse is HPI’s Grave Robber shell, so it isn’t technically branded as a Cadillac, but the ’59 Caddy hearse influence is pretty obvious and it looks great painted and perched atop Robert Snyder’s Red Cat Ground […]

Online Coverage Of The 2018 Off-Road JAM! [VIDEO]

Online Coverage Of The 2018 Off-Road JAM! [VIDEO]

This past weekend I headed down to Blue Springs, MO to attend this year’s Off-Road JAM! at Fastlane Raceway. This annual event usually runs around the last weekend of January and over the years it has featured different title sponsors. But one thing this race has always had was a fun atmosphere, great prizes, and […]
Tamiya TXT-1 Pro Mod Race Monster [READER’S RIDE]

Tamiya TXT-1 Pro Mod Race Monster [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Aaron Janes tells us he campaigns his TXT-1 Pro Mod Racer in the Falcon Hobby Monster Truck Series and some Trigger Kings events so he built his truck specifically with competition in mind, starting with the Freestyle RC Pro-C chassis which provides more than […]
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