Originally Posted by
gigaplex
It's discontinued at a few retailers. It's not discontinued on the official AE site. They don't discontinue products until after the replacement is out.
I just checked and it let me add the car to my cart at teamassociated.com's site, usually they won't let you add out of stock items without saying they are. Says low inventory though and on small parts, that usually means like 5. I'm not sure what it means on kits. One of my friends shops hasn't been able to order the kits direct for a while, I think they are holding the last set to be ordered direct or maybe to the larger distributors only.
Fall is probably around the right time, it's for sure not early enough to persuade me from buying today if you want one especially knowing the low stock. I just built a new kit for Reedy. Ryan Cavalieri not only ran the fastest race of the 2017 Reedy race, but won the 2018 nationals last weekend and had almost no custom parts on his car. Rick Howart won with the same car in 2017, the 1UP DTC kit really brought some life back into the car, I can only imagine the engineers are having a tough time going faster with it and maintenance is already easy.