ballistic toyota

i can get my hands on a 1989 toyota swb p/u...cheap! i am thinking very seriously of building an exact replica of the ballistic toyota.... remember that truck. it had a big impact on me as a minitrucker. as a matter of fact that mag came out a few months before my son was born. he is now 13! my sons name is logan (LO-gan, get it? pathetic huh?) his middle name is patrick. his mom and i were arguing about what his middle name should be... a copy of that minitruck mag that had ballistic on the cover was somewhere within my sight in the room. i remember the guys name was pat nichols that owned it. i looked at his mom and said, how bout patrick? so i guess you could say my son has a full blown minitruckin name! anyway, im thinking of rebuilding this truck exactly like that old ballistic mini (since i hear the original went into a dumpster!). think MT would be interested in doing a build-up article of it? if so, would anyonw in the mid south be intersted in doing some work on it if i can convince them of doing a build story? just a thought at this point,,,, but isnt that how these things get started? please post pics of the ballistic mini if you have any! all iahave are the mag shots of the truck.... im sure you guys out there have some!

ballistic was the pink yota if im correct.. (correct me if im wrong) anyways i dont know if theyd be intrested in a build up article... its always worth a shot. however remember mini truckin in general has advanced in leaps & bounds since then. so your gonna probably have to have some big plans besides building a replica.. you could probably make it look the same exterior wise but your gonna wanna go to town on the frame, engine & interior id assume. just my 5 cents..

I wanted to do that also, even had the truck for it. Had to sell it for other priorities. Good luck on the build. As stated above it might have been cutting edge but that was quite some time ago and it did see a few different phases.P.S. If you can find Ronals for a good price hook a brotha up

I've had the same thought... I say go for it...BALLISTIC was way ahead of it's time..It wouldn't be that hard to replicate hardest part would prolly be findin a set of RONAL R-9's (which was the reason I gave up on the idea only to find a set right after)....but keep searchin EBAY you might find a set like I did..... I wonder what things would've been like had Erik Perkins bd'd yota had been put on the cover of March 92 issue when it was featured....

that is the truck that i biult mine over i seen it in person that truck was assume but there only be one bullistic

sup chis, this is j.t., im down to help regardless if anyone wants to put it in a mag or not, let me know

i loved that toy! if i remember right though, it had one hell of a body drop (like 4" or something). i'd do it right so the bd isn't so drastic, but that's a badass idea!

on that note, someone should do the yellow mazda w/the antera optus one's (3 spoke) & stock sheet metal...

good luck

awesome idea.. pat's truck was so kickass.. way ahead of it's time, especially if you look at the framework.

these pics came from this threadhttp://www.streetsourcemag.com/forum/topic.aspx?whichpage=1&pagesize=50015&forum_id=13&topic_id=77684

One of my biggest inspirations growing up! I say do it!