The guys at the Yahoo! Desert Racing Modelers group are having a contest, with prizes, for off-road builds (Racers, rock crawlers, pre-runners, mall queens, etc), and this is my entry. Or one of the entries I am considering (The other is a Baja-modified VW Ghia).
This is an AMT 1992 F-150 modified for Class 8, which states stock frame and stock body style and location (within a few inches). It is loosely based on the F-150 that Robby Gordon and then Rob MacCachren in the late '80s and early '90s, and also this that I saw online:
There are pictures of Robby's old truck on
www.robbygordon.com
This is a mock-up of the truck, approximately how it will sit at ride height.
The truck will use the frame, body, rear axle, and interior tub from the AMT kit. The engine, wheels, dashboard, and some other parts will come from an old Monogram Hut Stricklin McDonald's NASCAR kit. The tires are from a 1/20th scale Lindbergh S-10 (They are about 31" in 1/20th scale, but they have become a staple of the off-road guys because they are about 35" in 1/25 scale).
The rear suspension will be a swing-arm with coil-over shocks, and the front end will have a beefed-up version of the stock Twin I-Beam suspension.
So far all I have done to the frame is chop out the sections of the underside of the bed that were molded in, along with the fuel tank and the front inner fenders.