Which discontinued (or re-re) kit would you restore if you could choose???

[9x19]

Got the Telluride roller this morning, body should be in tomorrow's mail... Tear down-clean-rebuild this week while I'm on vacation from work. I got a few spare parts to throw at this one if needed to replace anything worn, plus I'm going to do a few mild upgrades (Extreme Heavy Duty parts) along the way, including a center diff and aluminum shocks.

 

[CertifiedMike]

Got the Telluride roller this morning, body should be in tomorrow's mail... Tear down-clean-rebuild this week while I'm on vacation from work. I got a few spare parts to throw at this one if needed to replace anything worn, plus I'm going to do a few mild upgrades (Extreme Heavy Duty parts) along the way, including a center diff and aluminum shocks.

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That looks like a fun build!!!
A little dirty maybe but otherwise is looking pretty complete.

Nice start!!!

 

[9x19]

Thanks, the only part missing is the battery hold down... abut $6 from the mother-ship (may drive down there tomorrow).

 

[CertifiedMike]

You are off to a WAY cheaper start with your used project than this Mid I'm building! LMAO!!!
You got a nice looking truck there!

 

[Speed Chaser]

After losing an auction for one I would like to add the Tamiya db02 as a kit I would like to restore

 

[CertifiedMike]

I bought some stuff and then had the seller "loose "it. Its misplaced, whatever happened. This Mid resto is mak*ng me happy even if its been a bit of backward/forward building, fitting new to old etc...
I've contacted a few cool companies and found products I had thought long out of production!

 

[Warby]

I bought some stuff and then had the seller "loose "it. Its misplaced, whatever happened. This Mid resto is mak*ng me happy even if its been a bit of backward/forward building, fitting new to old etc...
I've contacted a few cool companies and found products I had thought long out of production!

It's amazing what discontinued parts you can find when you start looking around.

 

[CertifiedMike]

It's amazing what discontinued parts you can find when you start looking around.

I feel a bit like I did as a kid! I'm falling in love with Kyosho all over again!
There might be another brand or 2 I'd entertain too!
It IS out there still!

 

[Speed Chaser]

I feel a bit like I did as a kid! I'm falling in love with Kyosho all over again!
There might be another brand or 2 I'd entertain too!
It IS out there still!

One of those two brands better be Yokomo if not we can't be friends

 

[CertifiedMike]

One of those two brands better be Yokomo if not we can't be friends

I would LOVE to run a REAL old Yokomo!
They were THE coolest cars at the track!
(except mine of course... then Yokomo obviously! )

 

[Speed Chaser]

how old are we talking? This used to be my oldest yokomo until I sold, now 99 percent of my yokomo are onroad

(It's the only pic I still have of it)

 

[CertifiedMike]

The 80's and 90's buggies were my favorites.
I am not an on road racer so my experience is limited at best. Yokomo looks like a top competitor there.
I meant "REAL" as in not a new kit with an old looking body and a re-used name.
Nothing wrong with upgrading past flaws but when its a totally different chassis, in my opinion, its no longer the same car either.
Mustangs are a good example of this.
A 4 door, electric vehicle, even if its the most reliable, fastest andbest product Ford ever releases, is still not EVER going to be a Mustang in my eyes.
The Mach E is a hideous looking suv crossover tht Ford KNEW wasn't going to sell well so they aborted their last ties to a high performance market, cut ties and rebadged a grocery getter.
I know where to buy a new buggy, I want the OLD buggy.

 

[Lumikko]

The 80's and 90's buggies were my favorites.
I am not an on road racer so my experience is limited at best. Yokomo looks like a top competitor there.
I meant "REAL" as in not a new kit with an old looking body and a re-used name.
Nothing wrong with upgrading past flaws but when its a totally different chassis, in my opinion, its no longer the same car either.

I’ve said this in a few threads but a ’94 YZ-10 is something I’d bin in a heartbeat.

And I agree: it should be the same car, not a new design with an old body. I bet the ’90s undertray and body could be fitted to a number of other wheelers (it crossed my mind with the 870c) and it would look great, but no. You don’t ask a new date to dress up like your ex; just grab the shovel and head to the graveyard.

 

[CertifiedMike]

I’ve said this in a few threads but a ’94 YZ-10 is something I’d bin in a heartbeat.

And I agree: it should be the same car, not a new design with an old body. I bet the ’90s undertray and body could be fitted to a number of other wheelers (it crossed my mind with the 870c) and it would look great, but no. You don’t ask a new date to dress up like your ex; just grab the shovel and head to the graveyard.

I was just saying in another thread that once I had a few chassis I was happy with, I bough a bunch of bodies to put on. Like a dune buggy or the Parma buggy bodies but I NEVER tried to put an RC10 body on my Hornet and then try and pass it off as one.
Why manufacturers think its ok... who knows???

 

[RustyUs]

If I recall, they advertised this with an RC10 look alike buggy and an m-t?
This truck was SO COOL!!!
It has a very race oriented look to it. Its not overly tall or huge tires.
The ones that got away are sad sometimes! You ARE the first person I've ever talked to who owned one so THATS cool!!!

I have no doubt the Blue Eagle could still hold its own today on an outdoor medium traction track.
Pics below are from when ('91) I was at SJAFB Goldsboro NC and raced at a track with a barn for a shop that had upstairs carpet track. I don't remember the name of the city, but close to Mt. Olive I believe.

The only other Traxxas that I owned was the TCP buggy. That thing was amazing for the time period. I raced that TCP at Motorama in '95(?) and made it into one of the lower mains (I know I did not make the A,B,C,D, or E mains ). Stock class was brutal for me . Years later I sold it on eBay. Winning bid was for more than I paid for the darn thing new... weird. Found pictures of my TCP buggy years later... guy was still racing the thing.

I would never see myself buying an older RC to restore, but a re-re Blue Eagle kit (key word "kit") to build would be right up my alley even though I talked myself out of the RC10T re-re that I said I had to have.

 

[johnnydmd]

Kyosho Ultima. Was unobtanium when I first got into RC and worked as a store detective while in college. All I could afford was a Nikko Turbo Panther and a Tyco Turbo Hopper.

 

[CertifiedMike]

I have no doubt the Blue Eagle could still hold its own today on an outdoor medium traction track.
Pics below are from when ('91) I was at SJAFB Goldsboro NC and raced at a track with a barn for a shop that had upstairs carpet track. I don't remember the name of the city, but close to Mt. Olive I believe.
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The only other Traxxas that I owned was the TCP buggy. That thing was amazing for the time period. I raced that TCP at Motorama in '95(?) and made it into one of the lower mains (I know I did not make the A,B,C,D, or E mains ). Stock class was brutal for me . Years later I sold it on eBay. Winning bid was for more than I paid for the darn thing new... weird. Found pictures of my TCP buggy years later... guy was still racing the thing.

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I would never see myself buying an older RC to restore, but a re-re Blue Eagle kit (key word "kit") to build would be right up my alley even though I talked myself out of the RC10T re-re that I said I had to have.

YES!!! THIS!!!

Those cars look amazing! I bet that double deck design handled GREAT!!!

The truck is just hot!!! LOVE IT!!!

Its like going to a 1/10 scale hot rod meet for me!

I did the same with the RC10T and the Halsey car.
I want but I have shelfers already, no way I'd run the Halsey and the truck I'm still leary of Associated parts so...
Still. The cars from then or a "real" re-re from then just make me smile.
I love them all really! Lol!

 

[Speed Chaser]

The 80's and 90's buggies were my favorites.
I am not an on road racer so my experience is limited at best. Yokomo looks like a top competitor there.
I meant "REAL" as in not a new kit with an old looking body and a re-used name.
Nothing wrong with upgrading past flaws but when its a totally different chassis, in my opinion, its no longer the same car either.
Mustangs are a good example of this.
A 4 door, electric vehicle, even if its the most reliable, fastest andbest product Ford ever releases, is still not EVER going to be a Mustang in my eyes.
The Mach E is a hideous looking suv crossover tht Ford KNEW wasn't going to sell well so they aborted their last ties to a high performance market, cut ties and rebadged a grocery getter.
I know where to buy a new buggy, I want the OLD buggy.

My big issue with the Mach-E is the Mustang badging. I don't really care that it's an EV; every automaker is jumping on the EV hype train. I can't be mad at Ford for doing what others are doing, and in their defense, they are keeping the V8 alive, unlike Dodge. Dodge can go suck one. Now, as for RC, I am in the middle, kind of like a restomod. I like old chassis, but sometimes parts like arms or hubs are difficult to find, so I swap them with more modern stuff or 3D print parts. So far, this has kept several chassis alive. On-road 1/10 is the easiest to do this with.

 

[CertifiedMike]

My big issue with the Mach-E is the Mustang badging. I don't really care that it's an EV; every automaker is jumping on the EV hype train. I can't be mad at Ford for doing what others are doing, and in their defense, they are keeping the V8 alive, unlike Dodge. Dodge can go suck one. Now, as for RC, I am in the middle, kind of like a restomod. I like old chassis, but sometimes parts like arms or hubs are difficult to find, so I swap them with more modern stuff or 3D print parts. So far, this has kept several chassis alive. On-road 1/10 is the easiest to do this with.

I am not in love with any auto manufacturer right now. Ford and Chevy are my least fav right now.
The whole industry sucks imo.
I will never buy another Ford. They tried to screw me about 6 years ago on some body clips. $26 per clip to hold a shi*tty olpiece of door sil| to an 06 Focus.
I haven't spent a cent at Ford after that stunt. Not $1.
Screw them with a big stick.
GM is really pushing the "NO right to repair" issue so I sat screw them too.
I won't own another one. Could care less about fixing it.
My cars will remain in the pre computer age until i HAVE to replace with electric.
If I can't find an electric motor to fit my pre-spyware cars, I'll mail in my |icense and call it good.
Cars suck now. Honestly, I don't enjoy driving either so the whole industry is really no loss to me at this point.

 

[Speed Chaser]

I don't know. I used to be against more computers in cars because I genuinely enjoy an analog car; if I didn't, I would have sold it already. But I am paranoid when driving because in stock height it is already a foot shorter than most sedans, and modern SUVs have issues seeing it. So if people who are braindead when it comes to driving are willing to turn over control to a computer attached to an adequate sensor package to be driven instead, I have no issue with that, and I'll trust that more.