Custom Retro Monster Truck

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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 King. There are 4 shocks at each corner—RC4WD 70mm scale aluminum shocks with internal springs—on shock mounts Blake fabricated himself...

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