Ever seen a Ryuz???

[Incredible_Serious]

Found this while trawling for interesting articles.... what you'd get if a Cat and a Mini Mustang met together in the Nikko factory, I suspect....

[terry.sc]

This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

[RETRO R/C]

This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

Acedemy had a go at it too!

Good to see you again Terry.

Cheers

Darryn

[Incredible_Serious]

This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

You da man as always Terry....

Trust wldnas to have something like that.... he has some of the most... er..... "interesting" buggies in his collection...

Cheers.

Alex

[Mr. ED]

I'm quite sure Graupner sold this under their name in Germany at one point too.
I think it's the first time i see anything under the shell of it, though something blurry tells me it could have figured in RCCA once.

[R-NO]

It is indeed a mugen.
Ryuz was a shop in Japan (no longer in business). They produced parts for various cars, a bit like RPS was doing in the States. Japanese Mugen 'works' drivers were running Ryuz parts.
I recall the Ryuz shop made once a FWD 2wd buggy that was posting faster lap times than Hirosaka's RC10 at the Japanese Nats ('91 or '92 I believe).
I think I have pictures of that car somewhere...

[Dr. Robotnik]

I recall the Ryuz shop made once a FWD 2wd buggy that was posting faster lap times than Hirosaka's RC10 at the Japanese Nats ('91 or '92 I believe).
I think I have pictures of that car somewhere...

Please post them if you do.

[R-NO]

here it is

[Asso_man!]

that car is truely awesome, looks like a French proto from the declas... and it also looks like there's a Stealth in it! Too bad thos FWD cars were banned

[RETRO R/C]

Sweeeeet - runs an RCL Incident body!!

Very cool in a freaky kind of way!!

Cheers

Darryn

[RichieRich]

Ugly as sin. But damn cool.

[CM_113]

here it is

OH WOW!!! i havent seen that thing in years, i spent hours trying to make my 6 gear in to a copy of it. didnt work of course.lol

[hkp]

I have a set of Ryuz Aluminum driveshafts for the YZ10 so they were still going in the mid nineties. Beautifully made

[Bormac]

I have a nice little stash of RYUZ spairs for my Nikko Brat....very cool looking stuff.

[Team Best Performance]

Does anybody have more pictures and info on the Ryuz FF and other Japanese and European privateer/small mfg FF cars of the time that were working succesfully in competition?Thanks a million for the beautiful info and memories connected with this site.