The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
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Very cool indeed. Was there ever any threaded tires for i/8th nitro pan cars or aluminum rims?
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These are Grand Prix tires which were sold along with Advance Engineering aluminum or nylon wheels.
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Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Hi Al
Is this your car? Thanks for picture.
From what I remember Grand Prix tires were made by MRC in the UK. There was one slick and several types of threaded tires for racing in wet conditions, for 1/8 and 1/10 scale. I think I have such tires left also in storage.
Is this your car? Thanks for picture.
From what I remember Grand Prix tires were made by MRC in the UK. There was one slick and several types of threaded tires for racing in wet conditions, for 1/8 and 1/10 scale. I think I have such tires left also in storage.
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Hi Gunther, yes it's my car you're correct they were MRC tires out of UK, here's a page from the Advance Eng catalog:
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It´s interesting to see there had been different compounds, that´s new to me. We always wondered why they used such hard compound for a rain tire, these tires never really did work even when the threads were very promising. So it seems now we just got the wrong ones.
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Gotta love those Grand Prix tires, super nice collection there Gunther!
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Moody's 1/8 sprint cars use the Advance tires on dirt...V12 wrote:It´s interesting to see there had been different compounds, that´s new to me. We always wondered why they used such hard compound for a rain tire, these tires never really did work even when the threads were very promising. So it seems now we just got the wrong ones.
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Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
OK, new picture for keeping the 1/8 thread alive.
Question for those guys who know 1970s cars.
One of my 1/8 cars uses this rear end assembly.
Which car is it?
Question for those guys who know 1970s cars.
One of my 1/8 cars uses this rear end assembly.
Which car is it?
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Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
I am glad we keeping this alive. Sorry i don't have any completed cars to post at the moment, mostly ongoing projects.
Direct drive like the old SG and PB cars, but those had rear bulk heads tho. Seems even earlier than the cars i mentioned.
Direct drive like the old SG and PB cars, but those had rear bulk heads tho. Seems even earlier than the cars i mentioned.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Hi
It is an MRP rear train. I have the MRP 180 (1980 i think) car but the gear is different (the gear is blocked in the rim, because of the squared nylon shape of the gear).
The gear of your photo is older and needs other rims, different from my car. So it think your parts are the rear of the MRP ontrack car sold in 1975.
NB: i look for a gear for the MRP 1980 car of 1980 (in black nylon)
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http://a4roues.jimdo.com/
It is an MRP rear train. I have the MRP 180 (1980 i think) car but the gear is different (the gear is blocked in the rim, because of the squared nylon shape of the gear).
The gear of your photo is older and needs other rims, different from my car. So it think your parts are the rear of the MRP ontrack car sold in 1975.
NB: i look for a gear for the MRP 1980 car of 1980 (in black nylon)
Pascal
http://a4roues.jimdo.com/
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