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For a car that was last produced in 2000, that thing is clean!

And thanks for posting. It has inspired me to break out my FF03 Honda EF-9, and hopefully finish it up. It has been sitting around like this for way too long!

Reminds me of one of my most favorite fun build runners. I built it back when it was new, a TA02 S10 pre-runner. Then what now feels like a lifetime ago I cleaned it up and transformed it into my basement drifter. Way too much fun with both front and rear locked with basically plastic Hpi drift tire...

Bringing back memories, I fell in love with the Blackfoot when I first had seen the Tamiya ad in a magazine in ‘86 or ‘87. I do remember those half shafts stripping out quite easily though.

Another huge improvement is switching to monster beetle tires. Its a game changer. It has a way softer compound. Even with spikes worn off its 3 times the traction.

TokyoProf wrote: What was Ernie like?

The best way to answer that is to just say, it’s best to never meet your heroes.

Unless you are just set on modifying what you have, I prefer the look of the JConcepts plate.

The machined edges and honeycomb milling are nice.

I have a few that have been cut in various styles.

One is on my TOP Hybrid:-

I use the newer style o rings on all of mine. https://www.ebay.com/itm/223894135343?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=xdS7aXRXSPK&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=rUKMRphWSMG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY When you tighten them the first time, you might have to pu...

What was Ernie like? Seemed like a garrulous, friendly, larger-than-life kind of character. Looks like he could be intimidating if he was mad lol. I only know him through the old school RC magazine photos from old. He was pretty gruff and take no prisoners on his forum in the early days. Don't know...

I have a New Beetle too that I purchased back in 2000. I recently made a few upgrades including adding the Castrol Civic body which I think looks great.

I also added the period shock upgrade to replace the old plastic CVAs.

I have a New Beetle too that I purchased back in 2000. I recently made a few upgrades including adding the Castrol Civic body which I think looks great. That's come out sweet mate, well done! I also added the period shock upgrade to replace the old plastic CVAs. I used to look down on the old black...

I think you and Dadio are almost ready to form a gang of ringers to enter into a Grasshopper racing league. Yours will be the wolf in sheep's clothing and his will be a bionic Grasshopper. It's a goooood idea. Maybe its time to create an RC10Talk Champions Cup with a Grasshopper Class (I can donate...

I'll have a go , it's going to be quite radical , just thought about the RC10DS , don't they have much shorter shocks ? They are much, much shorter. They use the .56 body, which is the same as the short arm front shocks. But they use an even shorter .35 shaft. I have test fitted 1.02 truck front sh...

At the IconicRC Revival weekend I got to hold Craigs Detroit 91 Stealth car that he still has, he is looking on restoring it. While I had it I took some photos of it that you might enjoy. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AL9nZEVnfLMZk5zD6aK3Tf5KoDJiKTRih2gqywi30gai0nk7rXWOdUBzvdXmMvJOuPdmxQUWqfK...

You could give me one of the top pro drivers modern cars and I could guaranteed crash it into the wall harder than they could. I’m not sure that counts for anything but it’s a slow day.