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These MMS cars were quite a thing over in the UK, and having come across a few now, and having seen them in period UK racing mags being used by top drivers such as Jason Varley I always keep an eye out for them. A couple of months ago an online RC friend of mine messaged me saying he had a very chop...

Thanks to several other members of the RC community this little nugget is winging its way to me at the moment. It looks to be the same undertray style used by Umberto Pernice in Romsey in 1987, and to me appears to be the same shape as the Coyote bodyshell. Whether that doubles over to the Pro10 she...

It was only 19Euro too!

I have spoken with Mr.Haskins at Penguin and he will be doing the honours....

What's weird is when i was just starting out everybody at my local club had British heatshrink-era ESC's, mainly Demon Kings and ProKings, Nosrams and the like. I hated the look of them and bought a Futaba 112B due to the neat looking placcy case. I then went through a few Novak units before settlin...

That said, i still find this to be pretty cool.

That is a cool speedo indeed, because it´s a very early Tekin. Not the 411 or the ones you find at the next corner. The heatsink is not Tekin. Which manufacturer? Victor made the round shape but other than that I don´t know. Yes, I have some round Victor ones on my Victor ESC's, but these red ones ...

I have quite a number of Reedy modifieds many of which are from my own racing days rather than having been collected more recently. Just reading the previous posts I can confirm that my yellow label Reedy Ultra was actually a Yellow Dot. Whilst not specified as an off-road motor I ran it on short, t...

This conversion was advertised in very early 1990 in the UK RC mags, and it turns out the alloy chassis was provided by Racecraft (located just down the road from WASP). This is the only WASP lower chassis I have seen apart from in the old black and white mag photo. The drive train is also the full ...

Don't worry, it is in a safe place!!!

Here is a bit of a Reedy line up. There is an early red and a green label in there too.... with 83 Euro's stickers on them.

I raced a lot in the standard class in the UK - a very very competitive class back then, and to qualify for that you had to have a 27turn sealed can motor, bushes rather than ball-races and which was at or below the set price bracket. When starting out this was 12pounds and eventually went up to 15p...

The front tower on my WASP 870c which i just posted in the Yokomo forum is a Composite Craft example.... kind of a matt black graphite outer finish with a lighter material sandwich. The ones on my UK Lightweight Racer thread car are the exact same material (from D&D Graphite.... so before the Co...

All i know is that the 40pound hand-wound motors which were available off the shelf at your local model shop were built by the motor builders (or their helpers as i know certain guys had other folks working for them) but these motors were a step below the hand-picked team motors which were saved for...

This example is quite cool, and looks very much like your standard off-the-shelf Reedy modified, even so far as that the defining ‘Dot/Star’ has fallen off over time. However this motor has been sourced directly from Team Associated, Yokomo and Reedy driver Michael Ebert, who raced at a pretty high ...

Bit of an older thread, but i noted the graphite wing availability dates were being discussed. This advert is for the pre-Composite Craft days, so D&D Graphite. This advert is from a 1986 UK mag, so they were clearly available that early. dd1.jpg I also purchased a UK lightweight RC10 and when I...

I have posted this up on a couple of Fb group pages earlier today and I was rather surprised at how many people studied and comment upon it. A friend of mine was a freelance journalist who wrote for the two big RC magazines in the UK, and was at the Reedy Spring International held at Romsey in 1987....