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Ok guys, I feel that I can trust you all to give me a bunch of good straight up answers here.............so here is the question.

What electric or nitro/mod to electric truck or buggy should I look at for just your basic backyard/Street/gravel pit bashing and a good brushless set-up to go with it. Main factors no monster tires (not into the car crushing look) easy access to parts and low cost..........I'm trying to get my step son interested in r/c and the planes are just to tuff at this stage.........but when I had the Stampede he could crank that around pretty damn good..............I'd like to possibly do 2 so that we can run together instead of me taking the controls from him all of the time............I'm hoping that with my new job that I will have the funds for this sometime this summer cause the gravel pit behind my property is just calling for some trashing.

I welcome all of your comments guys so lets here em'

An e-maxx would be a rather good choice, but it needs hopups to be made good;
-3.3 driveshafts
-3.3 knuckles
-flm aluminum cups
-steel idlers in the transmission
-proper shocks that don't pop as soon as the truck lands a bit wrong
-proper servo saver
-good spur/slipper

i personally like/prefer a savage for a basher;

a new Savage X comes standard with good shocks, camshaft servo saver, tough drivetrain (including 1/8th 6 spider diffs with upgraded tough aluminum cups, a MOD1 dual slipper and steel driveshafts over the stock tupperware of the e-maxx) and with some tweaking you can make a fair stable racer out of it as well.

I would personally vote for the savage.
here is the latest savage i converted to electric;
http://picasaweb.google.com/buikpijn/CarbonSavage

No monster truck tires... meaning no super wide tractor treads, or no truck tires at all? That would eliminate al trucks. I don't do the wide 40 series type stuff either. You might like the Moabs for bashing... they have the rock crawler/ mud tire look. They look good on a 1/10 truck imo.

For 1/10 scale:

I like the Stampede for kids and bashing in the yard... makes a cheap basher without too many hopups.

The HPI Wheelie King would be a neat 4wd basher.

THe HPI 4wd nitro stadium truck "MT2" makes a good bahser too.... tough driven train and 4wd without the size and weight of a 1/8.

A 4wd buggy would be good too... the Tamiya Dark Impact is a cool car. I have thought about getting one of those for my kids.

Then there is the big stuff... emaxx..savage..all the 1/8 buggy/trucks... ANY 1/8 buggy or truck would work good.

If you like the buggies here's an Ofna hyper7 roller for about $200
http://www.nitrohouse.com/blowout_specials.htm

I'd actually say a Jato. It doesn't have any huge tires and has that sleek fast look, it will be very easy to convert, and it will be nice and tough. It also wont kill the wallet.

Yeah, the Jato was quite easy to convert. You just need to get the single speed conversion for the tranny and make the motor mount, batt holder, and some type of place to put the electronics...

I built my 8 year old a Monster GT. Accommodating the motor and esc were easy, but I did have to get a bit creative with the tranny to lock it into first gear and remain strong enough to take the torque of the brushless. After having gotten it built, the only things I've had to replace are rod ends. It's a VERY tough setup, although the tires are on the big side.

To keep things affordable, I went with a Mamba Max controller, a Feigao 8XL, and a 4S2P 8Ah maxamps pack. It runs for it seems like forever, with the conservative gearing. The whole things acts like a fast crawler.

This is great guys.........GD I need to ask what the 4x is in your avitar..........I had a Tamiya Fox back when I was 14 yrs old that was tricked out with Hot Trick racing products........it had a losi Can motor and a lot of extra goodies that Hot Trick made........all of the parts where basically modified RC-10 stuff. I may look at another Stampede for the kid but I think I need something like a stadium truck for myself........

I think a associated T4 would be a good choice for brushless

the 4wd buggy in GD avatar is a kyosho optima

In my opinion, a HPI MT2 18ss would be great. It is a the size of a 1/10 scale stadium truck, yet is 4wd so it would rarely get stuck in the deep gravel.

crazyjr I looked at the T4, I like it but 4x would be even better I'm gonna see what I can find out on the HPI MT2 18ss.........be back soon

HPI...........big nope no nitro..........and I don't think a conversion would be the way to go.........

Why not HPI?... they are a great reliable company.

the only rc they made that fits you're criteria is the RS4mt electric. too bad they don't make it anymore

In this situation.......I really really don't see anything but a pede/rusty stepping up to the plate. It is the only RC I know of that is simple/tuff-enough to do the job. Lets face it. The dam things are tough as nails, easy to power, and dirt dirty cheap to maintain. I'm sorry if I offend anyone here....but any other recommendation for this situation is just BS. Tuff/cheap/brushless............I mean come on guys. Traxxas pede/rusy/or bandit is all there is. Everything else is either crap/pricey/or just too complicated.

You came to the wrong place with that argument..