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Hello,

As mentionned before, i finally got a Blackfoot. Unfortunately the body appeared to be in a better shape on the seller's pictures !
After a complete clean up of the chassis i put all the parts in a box and decided to start with the body first as there is still lot's to do.









At the beginning i wanted to paint it "box art"....But whilst looking for a Blackfoot through internet i saw how good it looks in white with red decals. So i changed my mind, and this one will be white

This is how it should be once finished



As you can see the body has suffered a bit from the roll overs...

Nice project! Like you wrote in your other thread, the spur looks totally stripped.

Manotas wrote:

Other than that the car seems to be in pretty good condition. Nothing that can't be fixed at least.

be carefull with the diff. Personnaly I replace mine with a reinforced one.

That white one does look sweet, this siver 1 is good too Looking forward to this (you know why )andy

The silver Blackfoot looks awesome!! If I ever get one I would paint it silver after seeing these pics. Good luck with the resto

stingray-63 wrote:

be carefull with the diff. Personnaly I replace mine with a reinforced one.

Hi Stingray,

Thanks for your advice.
As far as i can remember i only had to change the diff once since i'm running my "Runner Monster beetle" and this is mainly caused by the technigold motor i have put it in.
Of course it hasn't that much running time and besides that this Blackfoot will mainly stay on the shelf and will be driven mainly in-house.

Thanks again

andyaus wrote:

That white one does look sweet, this siver 1 is good too Looking forward to this (you know why )andy quote]

Hi Andy,

It looks awesome in grey too ! But i think i won't change my mind...you'll see the result once i finished repairing the body.
I'll post more pics tonight of the ongoing work on the body.

Thanks for looking

The body looks like it's basically all there, so with a lot of sanding & filling should look quite good

Mine ran only with a stock 540 and when I bought it, the diff was six feet under . Like crouikkrouikkouik
This problem was recurent on the monster beetle, blackfoot and their children.
PS I love in white and in grey.
I regret to mount mine in black with a poor blue repro decals sheet.

I had a few hours last evening to start filling the BF body.