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Old 05-09-2009, 01:22 AM
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Good news that they are going to do the rough rider. Those were good cars. Granted the 2 step speed control was junk and it had issues with durability in the front end. I was never impressed with the Frog, had horrible front suspension and the transmission had a lifetime of just a few batteries. The grasshopper and hornet were OK as long as you didnt put a real 27T stock motor in them. Once you did that, they would break quickly.

I used to run the gears from my rough rider in my RC 10 with an early MIP transmission. Funny that the MIP was just tamaya gears with a thorp diff to fit into an RC-10. That then became the stealth transmission after the dropped the 6 gear rc-10 transmission.

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I have received the Buggy Champ (Rough Rider reissue) last week. Looks great
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Originally Posted by slotracer577

I used to run the gears from my rough rider in my RC 10 with an early MIP transmission. Funny that the MIP was just tamaya gears with a thorp diff to fit into an RC-10. That then became the stealth transmission after the dropped the 6 gear rc-10 transmission.

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That's interesting. I never knew that at all... I used to love those 3-gear MIP transmission before the "Stealth" days. They were the precursor to almost all the 3-gear transmissions that are used in almost all the 2wd buggy/trucks today. I've met Eustace Moore a couple of times at my local track way back when (The Race Place). I've always loved and still love all of his company's products.

All my wrenches, metric and standard sizes, are the MIP/Thorp wrenches. Abused the crap out of them and the tip still holds its shape!!!


Regarding the buggy champ - freaking excellent and sexy ride! All the buggies are such cookie-cutter type these days. Not that I'm complaining, modern rides perform great, but these "vintage-era" style RCs are awesome, they seem like Rube-Goldberg type of RCs with all the parts that we consider extraneous, but it's because of these machines that we get such simplified and elegant machines we have today...

Tamiya's marketing folks are geniuses. They probably knew that the kids that grew up wanting/had their earlier rides grew up, have a job, and now part of the consumer crowd...

I know that I love my re-re Fire Dragon. It's not the fastest or the best performing one, but man, I love driving that guy on the street just as I used to do with my old RC cars as a kid...


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I just got my re-re Subaru Brat running the other day. I never had an original but I wanted something from the same time frame as when I started racing. I started with a Falcon and then went to AE as I got older and had more $$$. My uncle still has a Fast Attack and I HAD a Wild One. I would kill for a re-re Wild One!!! My Brat will never see more than the stock 540. I have to roll all but one jump on our track, they just aren't made for the modern jumps but it's a blast from the past.
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re-re Fast Attack coming soon

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=58496

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Originally Posted by marvi
I hope that means the Wild One is coming as well. I still have broken pieces of my original and that car really holds a special place in my heart!
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These re-release kits sure sell better than modern off road kits by Tamiya.
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Originally Posted by Burlap
I have received the Buggy Champ (Rough Rider reissue) last week. Looks great
I picked up the limited gold edition, it's pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by marvi


Just found out about this! Can't wait to get my grubby little hands on one of these re-re of the fast attack!

I love Tamiya's time machine!

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Hey Tamiya, when are you going to re-release the 1/12th Porsche 959 and/or Celica Group B ? I'd beg, borrow or steal to buy those cars
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They are on top of my list but I think they rerelease the Egress first.
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Old 10-10-2011, 01:27 AM
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Isn't the Avante re-re out now? I don't mean the DF-03 variant but the actual Avante...

Too many re-re, so little time!
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Couldn't help notice this thread and had to get this off my back:

When will Tamiya re-release The FOX??

Boy I miss my old buddy
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Originally Posted by tom_chang79
Isn't the Avante re-re out now? I don't mean the DF-03 variant but the actual Avante...

Too many re-re, so little time!
The Rerelease Avante 2011 was released early february. There is a new truck called Vajra out now based on the Avante with goodies from the Egress such as front and rear arms, solid spur/countergear and ball diffs.
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Old 10-10-2011, 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by gelshocker
Couldn't help notice this thread and had to get this off my back:

When will Tamiya re-release The FOX??

Boy I miss my old buddy
Don't know, but if it is a popular model they will I think. In the meantime you can always buy for a used one and to restore it.
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