Vintage Rc Cars - Now with Video of the Chevy Stadium Truck :) New Cars!!!

Omg mr goddard thats not good for family life. In my family, i was the little brother who destroyed near every Toy of my 2 older brothers.

I will post a pic of the poor holiday buggy or should i say ,,bones,,

Oh, that reminds me, I promised to sort and photo that sack of RC car parts I found. I'll see if I can get that done this weekend.

If you find OFF roader rear tires for a tamiya holiday buggy in the sack. You know now who is interested

Here is a picture of some Holiday Buggy parts. As per the Kyosho Cox 0.49 Car I have stored everything regarding rc Cars in an attic of a collegue (I did this because I had to move from my parents house a decade ago and had no time and place to store the parts in my little appartment. In order to prevent that my parents throw away some cars, I was very pleased with the offer of my collegue to store the parts for better times ).




It was a mistake because he dissassembled every chassis and throw it into boxes (But I do not regret, everything seems to be still there)

It's like playing with LEGO




Monday I will visit him and catch some boxes. I've got already a manual for the holiday buggy. Hopefully I will find all parts in order to begin the restoration (The Idea with the engine is not out of sight!!!)


The Kyosho beetle is not dissasembled but some parts are missing.

Can't wait to have them back home

I am thinking about spending the Kyosho Beetle a brushless drive train.

A gearbox of a newer Traxxas Buggy will fit I think.

Regarding the Body, i am thinking about to fix a Tamiya Sand Scorcher body. The Wheelbase is not the same but I think I can abridge the chassis easily. The look would be very cool I think.

The Idea of a Cox powered Buggy is also still in my thoughts. I don't know how to build the clutch at the moment.

News: i catched a repro body for the beetle

The front suspension of the beetle is repaired

A Asso controller is also ordered

Not many steps left to run the car

I am a lazy man.

I did stupid things, and bought a Traxxas Slash 2wd with brushless system and also some tuning parts like metal gear box and so on.

But it is better in order to conservate the classic cars.

I think the Traxxas is the right Thing for bashing

Today I received the Traxxas Slash,

man what a ,,big'' thing. Looks more like 1:8 Scale than 1:10, but American Cars are even bigger than the European .
The car comes with a complette brushless tuning kit and nice parts like alu gear, big bore alu shocks and most available rpm tuning parts. So only the ground plate and body is still Traxxas.

I also received a TBG-Canada repro body for the Kyosho beetle which fits perfect.
It will take some time to restore the beetle. I have to find a new gearing first, it will be rebuild with stock parts.

OT: I am still addicted to the slash, a 3S Lipo is ordered

Beetle Update:

In the meantime the Asso Controller for the beetle was delivered, sadly I ordered one for 1/24 micro Cars and I don't think it will last very long. Therefore I bought another ESC.

The Car is cleaned now and I also found some missing parts of the drivetrain. Most of the Rc/stuff is pre-installed and it absolved a sucessfull bench test. Today I will braze the racing pack banana connectors.

Maybe I will post a picture later.

I have my younger cousin's Traxxas Hawk 2 with a black chassis, that I am restoring. The only ones I have ever seen have a white chassis.

Due to too many projects I regret to say that I have sold the Tamiya Holiday Buggy

But hey, I have got a new Thing to play. This time a nitro It should be a Kyosho but I don't know if it is really a Kyosho. If somebody knows this model please advice.

It has a recoil starter 2wd and Chevy Body, here is a picture:





Can't wait for cleaning it!

coxaddicted wrote:Hello Guys,

I wonder, if anyone here has electric powered vintage Rc Cars too. I know it is a cox forum but maybe there is some interest.

I didn't know but apparently, Cox DID manufacture or sell some electric powered RC cars: the Bandido and the Tomahawk. Have a look at the manuals over here:

http://www.competitionx.com/rc-manuals/cars-and-trucks/cox-manuals/

Lieven

OVERLORD wrote:

coxaddicted wrote:Hello Guys,

I wonder, if anyone here has electric powered vintage Rc Cars too. I know it is a cox forum but maybe there is some interest.

I didn't know but apparently, Cox DID manufacture or sell some electric powered RC cars: the Bandido and the Tomahawk. Have a look at the manuals over here:

http://www.competitionx.com/rc-manuals/cars-and-trucks/cox-manuals/

Lieven

Hey Lieven,

thank you. the Tomahawk uses the same Chassis (with slight differences) as my beetle. All these cars were made by Kyosho and were sold under the brand in USA. In Germany they where distributed by Graupner during the Eighties.

Today I received the Chevy

Everything seems to be in order (except the leaking shock absorbers). Therefore I decided to give it a try before dissasembling and cleaning. New fuel lines, a receiver and battery, thats all. It runs!!! Btw: I have to find a manual for the engine, it is a Super Tiger GP 10 Magnum Engine. I think it is normally for a plane (look at the muffler). I am happy that this car is not a garbage can, I hope I will get it back on the track soon. It is reallly nice and small, the engine is quiter than I supposed. An interesting fact is that this car hasn't good any ball-bearing, maybe I will change this.

Here are some Pictures of the chassis out of the box, needs some TLC but nothing is cracked even the tires are still ok:

Hello Coxaddicted,

Seems that you made a good deal. Hope you get it running well and we're looking forward to a video.

For the manual, did you try the thread on RC Groups? Have a look here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=955929

Lieven

OVERLORD wrote:Hello Coxaddicted,

Seems that you made a good deal. Hope you get it running well and we're looking forward to a video.

For the manual, did you try the thread on RC Groups? Have a look here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=955929

Lieven

Hey Lieven,

thank you very much! The Link was helpful. I was a little bit confused because there are many manufacteurs like Thunder Tiger, Super Tiger, Super Tigre. This engine is a Taiwan made Thunder Tiger, I found a manual which will help.

I will come Back soon.

It runs!!!

The engine is a little gem. Starting is easy and tuning is even easier than a cox - really a reliable Thing. Of course, this should not mean that I do not want to have anymore coxengines

I only tested this car onroad, I don't know if it will hold long in Off Road use. But it is fun too!

I will make a video soon, if anybody wants to see

Ha ha, great fun this oldschool car. I t makes nice donuts, if you want!

Here is a short driving video. I will not take it off Road, it is over 20 years old and I have no time or desire for cleaning or waiting for spare parts.

As mentioned before this was a Ebay haul. I didn't do more than new fuel lines, a modern radio and fuel thats all. Really a good haul I would say only the clutch is a little bit slippy. (Sorry for the bad quality, im really bad at the cam)

Nice!!

Hey Guys!

Some of you have already noticed that i am a little bit a away from cox engines. It is because i am more interested in rc cars - but I will keep all my cox rc modells - of course (The Stocker has to be finished now  ).

The above mentioned Stadium Truck is for sale - if anybody has interest please send me a pm. It is a vintage Truck in near mint condition - not used very often - only the tires are a little bit old. The engine (Thunder Tiger) is running excellent!

I just want to inform that I have some new projects from the 90ies beside my new Turnigy Buggy:

Kyosho Mantis GP from the mid 90ies in good condition - I will make a ,,poser'' car of it: Honda S 2000 Body, it has ambitions to be a ,,Drifter'' - I like this chassis very much because of the clean design.

Kyosho Spider MKI GP 4WD with original McLaren Body from the mid 90ies disassembled in poor condition but only screaws and the pullstarter are missing. Will be restored because I know that this chassis is one of the best at that time - pure racing  -my favourite - already some Kyosho Option parts build in.

Kyosho Alpha GP 4wd WRC Series Ford Cosworth, in poor condition Rally car but with many spare Parts. This chassis will get a .15 Kyosho Engine for some extra power and will be used as a let me say Bash-car. I will use it as a real rally car.


Pictures will follow, I hope you enjoy it and maybe some of you know this cars. If somebody has a Kyosho gs pullstarter please let me know!

Regards