MPC's 'Rat Trap' Vega

An ancient and crude kit. The roll cage is pure rubbish, the alleged BBC engine is almost as bad. You get the picture.

After a longish building holiday it felt good to get stuck into this over the long weekend. Since I'm at home, might as well build!

Box art



Scratch building a new roll cage. Seat is kit, tape seat belts


I went nuts and made my own coil overs, front discs from the parts bin, added backing plate to the rear drums. Currently working on the headers and the roll cage.

Todays update: Engine mostly wired. Coil and accelerator linkage, battery & cables to come. Body is painted & decaled. All will be revealed in the next few days.

I need to add a steering box & column too.

Coming along nicely.

Moving along. I've added the battery, helmet and radiator hoses. Steering box, column and master cylinder are today's projects.