Wild One Restore #2

Day 2 of the restoration. My son go up bright and early saying "Dad I am ready to work on the car". If it were up to him, then it would have been completely done already. None of this waiting around stuff. Today we pulled out a copy of the original instructions and tore down the front end. The goal was to see how much wear the parts had suffered and to clean everything up real well. By the time we got started, we didn't have too much time to do more.

The spindles for the front wheels are showing some wear. It looks like the bearings were sliding on the spindle and left a couple grooves. Can we go as is or should we replace them?

Before we begin reconstructing everything, I need to get to the hobby shop and get some thread lock, grease and oil for the shocks. Originally, there was no plans on tearing down the shock, but with the car being 26 years old now, we may have to tear into the shocks and fill them with oil.

Doing a search on the web for a chassis so we wouldn't need to repair the one we have I found one for a Tamiya Fast Attack Vehicle. The Fast Attack was reintroduced last year and has the same chassis as the Wild One. We will just need to paint it black vs. the sand color that is comes in. Not a problem because that is how the current chassis was made. This will also save some time which is very important to my son.

There is another question that is out there. Should we restore it to as original as possible or should we modify it, or paint it for a different look. The original is a black body with a red roll cage. My son says we should paint the roll cage for a chrome look. I am all for that, or we could paint it black to match the rest of the body. Either way, we are having a good time working on it together.