Mike Blackstock

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Slower lol. I think i used 13 - 15 turns at this race.

RedBullFiXX

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I don't remember traction roll being an issue back then either.

Video doesn't do justice to how fast the cars were, but I liked how we used to meter the throttle to make 8 mins with the round cells.
Unless you had Joels' batteries . . .

bakaguyjean

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Does anybody know how many different TOJ bodies there were made?

I know of these
Assoi TOJ
Frewer TOJ (Assoi copy)
Frewer TOJ with driver(Might be a Protoform copy)
Protoform with driver

Does anybody know of any other?

Giorgio

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The good thing (one of...) (and I'm speaking about 1980...31 years ago..) was that, at that time, you can have a single pack of ni-cads and you dont' have had to feel the "poor" guy of the circle...

Associated standard charger was a cheap resistive wire, which was feeding some Sanyo or General Electrics 1.2V 1200mah...
And you've to manage 8 long minutes with motors with 30 turns...

Bodies were way more similar to real cars.

In the meam time:
I'm after a Porsche 956/962 from Parma (or Bolink)...

nf_ekt

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I'd like to see an "exhibition" class at one of the bigger races... have the guys that still own these older cars go out and run. 1:1 has historical/exhibition racing events, why not the same for 12th scale RC? I guess Baka is already enjoying this sort of thing but I'd like to go to Snowbirds or another event and see the old cars with "era-correct" paint jobs running.

Johnny Wishbone

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Jim Greenmeyer/Checkpoint did their own TOJ driver molded in.

Johnny Wishbone

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In 2009 at the IIC, Tony Nesinger was running in 1/12th, and still running black and gold coloured paint scheme.

2010 Joel Johnson came out to the IIC and someone let him run a car. He hadn't run one in some time, but was still pretty fast, once he learned that he didn't have to conserve power for the whole 8 minute run. I guess old habits are hard to break. Sort of takes the race strategy out of racing now.

corallyman

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Me too, I have a Lavco Pro Dyno, Cell Mate Charger, and DisCharger and Pack Adapter. Those were such great items. Very well put together inside were it counts.

V12

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Bolink TOJ (looks very similar to the Asssociated TOJ in my opinion)
Sarik Vacform TOJ (UK brand, never saw one)

InspGadgt

McAllister

wingman2

Here's a couple of pics of my Sarik Toj b'shell. I still have the driver figure, because you HAD to have a driver figure on your chassis if you used an open cockpit b'shell, like the Toj.

Here you go:





I will give it a run at Chesterfield this Sunday to compare it to an up to date b'shell.

Cheers,

Chris.

L.Fairtrace

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I think Joel races from time to time. I know last year I saw is name at some gas onroad race. Maybe the nats.

superspeed

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this track reminds me of tamiya america track, it's got a good flow

superspeed

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Like rc version of Goodwood festival of speed

RedBullFiXX

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