Re-released Vintage Tamiyas
#46
Tech Adept
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.
John
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.
John
#48
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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#52
re-release
These re-release kits sure sell better than modern off road kits by Tamiya.
#53
#56
They are on top of my list but I think they rerelease the Egress first.
#58
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
When will Tamiya re-release The FOX??
Boy I miss my old buddy
#59
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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