Monster Truck Madness – Folks like Lifted Trucks
Greetings all and completely satisfied Thursday!
Before we get to it this week, a couple of notes- the crew at Horizon did a depraved job at Horizon RC Fest! I’m certain they’re gonna do up 2024 even larger, by some means! It’s at all times a can’t miss occasion on the calendar!
Long time r/c monster truck fan/racer and, most significantly, full dimension Raminator driver Dan “Cheech” Agosh performed the car crush on the occasion and it’s been a variety of enjoyable seeing one other hardcore r/c’er discover success within the 1:1 world!
Lastly, hardcore monster truck followers ought to check out the JConcepts video discussing the restoration of the legendary BIGFOOT #4. I do know a variety of people concerned with this undertaking, and they’re working their tails off to see it performed proper. The video is lengthy however a enjoyable watch!
Ok, now the subject at hand. Boy, the parents at Traxxas REALLY have discovered a success on their arms with the High Trail TRX-4 loadout, eh?
They initially launched the sq. physique Chevy OG model final Summer, which become an enormous hit. That was adopted by the traditional Ford F-150 model, which was adopted by the ’72 Blazer, and is now being adopted up on by the TRX-4 Sport model.
While I’ve completely no inside data on this, I’m going to guess the success of this TRX-4 platform refresh has been fairly stunning to the large T. Or at the least was in the course of the fall- I feel it’s fairly apparent they perceive it now! We love our massive jacked up items of traditional iron. It additionally helps that the TRX-4 raise equipment is a properly engineered product too, after all. The cool old skool our bodies mixed with the confirmed TRX-4 AND efficiency of how they work with the raise equipment has actually given the TRX-4 platform fully new life.
The solely different actual instance of one thing like this I can consider can be the unique Axial SCX10. With that truck, the unique launch began out with unlicensed our bodies (the Dingo and Honcho have been hottest) after which, after a couple of years, Axial connected with Jeep and that’s when the truck acquired REALLY standard.
The story here’s a bit totally different provided that the TRX-4 has at all times had very detailed licensed physique variations obtainable, however on this case they targeted on giving the truck a raise and altering the tire dimension in addition to zeroing within the nostalgia of traditional rigs such as you’d discover in old skool problems with Peterson’s 4 Wheel & Off-road Magazine.
Thus far, Traxxas has been mining the mid 70’s/early 80’s time interval, which is admittedly most likely the candy spot for this sort of truck. That stated although, the late 80’s and early 90’s are ripe for the pickin’!
Hobbyists are persevering with to eat up the High Trail TRX-4’s, so I see no signal of the releases stopping with the TRX-4 Sport model. Early 90’s Silverado or late 90’s Ford Super Duty anybody? Can’t wait to see what they do subsequent!
Until subsequent time, preserve it on all 4’s!