![]() It may sound gimmicky, but I have to tell you that it’s great fun. OBA is essentially a speaker system that allows the RC truck to sound like a rumbling 900 horsepower V8 short course racer. I still needed to buy a truck to mod out to begin with.Īfter searching around the net for all the different models of Slash that are available, I decided to buy a 2WD model with Traxxas’ intriguing and fun looking On Board Audio (OBA) technology. A laundry list of parts later, I realized that I was getting way ahead of myself. It was then that I decided to swap the RTR’s stock truck body with a Herbie recreation using the Pro-Line body. ![]() I imagined how a short course Baja bug would look taking jumps and careening through dirt trails and immediately thought back to the classic Herbie movies I loved as a kid. I jumped into the rabbit hole that is the Pro-Line website () and started adding parts to the shopping cart.ĭuring this visit to Pro-Line’s website, I noticed that the company makes a VW Baja Bug Clear Body for the Slash 2WD. Rabbit HoleĪs I looked around, I realized that Pro-Line Racing, a company well known for its incredible line of RC tires and bodies also offers a robust selection of Slash performance upgrade parts. I can’t help but modify anything I get my hands on. I quickly became enamored with the electric short course truck and wanted to get one for myself to fully deck out. It was my review of the Slash 4WD that opened up my RC experience to the legendary platform. You may recall in last month’s RCCA, I confessed that up until that point, I never had any experience with the Traxxas Slash. Herbie happens to also be the inspiration for the Traxxas Slash 2WD that you see before you. ![]() Its red, white and blue stripes, off-white color and large “53” racing numbers are recognizable the world over. Suffice it to say, Herbie has since become an automotive icon, one that has helped elevate the legend of the VW Beetle to even loftier heights. ![]() The Bug appeared in six movies beginning from 1968’s The Love Bug clear through the 70s and on to 2005’s Herbie: Fully Loaded. Movie magic delighted this child’s imagination and I couldn’t get enough of the car that seemed to be alive. Little did its hapless driver know that many times Herbie actually drove itself around in the races it was entered. Herbie was a modified for racing 1963 Volkswagen Beetle that had a mind of its own. Pro-Line’s BFGoodrich Baja T/A KR2 SC, M2 compound tires easily dig in with epic amounts of traction. ![]()
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