Yankee Viper rebuild

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cryo-tek
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Yankee Viper rebuild

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Here are a couple of pictures of my Yankee Viper project. As you can see I discovered anodizing. The Base plate is black type3 hard anodized so that it won’t scratch as easy as paint. I had to make the front cell plates because the stock ones were plastic.
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very nice jewelry job! please post that on Yankee-rc.com forum!
i also had a viper but in bad shape!
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like the red,sometime ago on germany ebay ,were some sets for sale
also in red and bleu
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looks great so far!!!! :o
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I made a little more progress today:
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cryo-tek wrote:I made a little more progress today:
your car is new! you know that new viper body are available?
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Wow! That looks great! I especially love the red!!
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