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Super Scale RC4WD Toyota LC70 from Down Under [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Lee Hawking of VaultRC sent in his Trail Finder 2-based build all the way from Sunshine Coast, Queensland. The LC70 is the Land Cruiser-based truck sold exclusively in Australia and its indestructibility is legendary Down Under. This one is set up for both work […]

Sand Rustler Buggy [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! A lot of Scott Lempert’s projects are custom scale builds and we’ve shown plenty of them in Reader’s Rides, but he also builds vehicles just for fun. When he decided he wanted something for playing in the sand, he wasn’t going just grab something […]

Asphalt-Burning Bronco Slash GT [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! 3D-printed scale accessories for crawlers are pretty common these days, but Daniel Porter wanted something a little different. He bought himself a printer and started by revamping drag car wings and diffusers he had previously built in styrene and aluminum, but he also wanted […]

Blacked-Out Redcat [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Angel Ocasio used a little bit of everything to customize his Redcat Gen7 Jeep Cherokee. The body is from Axial, as is the roof rack that fits it. Protecting it are a set of Integy bumpers, complete with aluminum shackles. The rear one has a […]

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 […]

Custom ’33 Willys Gasser by Scott Lempert [READER’S RIDE]

There’s just something about a gasser. Hotrodders know it, and its on display with Scott Lempert’s custom ’33 Willys. The body is completely hand-built by Scott out of styrene. He fabricated the chassis too–incorporating Tamiya King Hauler front and rear axles. You can lift off the front bodywork to reveal a gasser staple: a big-block […]

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]

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]

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 […]

Crawford Performance Drift Barbarian [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! A drifting monster truck? Michael Iacono had his Pro-Line F-250 body wrapped with the 2016 livery of pro drifter Justin Pawlak to give it a little extra performance mojo, and he assures us that yes—it can drift with the help of Axial aluminum knuckles […]

Team Associated RC8.2e Rigged for Night Ops [READER’S RIDE]

Reader’s Rides is sponsored by PRO-LINE. Click for the latest gear! Mike Dufort says it took him a year—and close to $6000—to upgrade every piece of his stock Team Associated RC8.2e to the best components he could find. The result is a wild creation he calls “Nightrage.” He installed a full set of LED lighting […]

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 […]