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Cool story bud nice car, battery I would guess some Reedy branded 6 cell?

Hello I figured to share this on this page. I’m a new member but a long time RC enthusiast and enjoyed the TC3 and NTC3. I acquired this TC3 from Gene Husting’s museum from his son Curtis when they auctioned off some of Genes collection. I think this was a practice car of Billy Eastons. I consider ...

Hello and welcome.

If it were mine I would just clean up the motor wires, put a period set of dish wheels on it like the photo and put it on the shelf as is.

Here is a page which shows what appears to be that car: http://site.petitrc.com/reglages/asso/setups/rc10tc3/TC3_BillyEaston_KongKong2000/ All of the details seem to match like sticker placement, motor labels, etc. From the article the batteries Billy used were Panisonic 3000mah Stock Metal Hydrides...

Welcome to the group., Whether you decide to run it or not is up to you. I have several shelf queens but take them out on occasion and run them with restraint. Although last week I was running an older RC 10 T and flipped it over and broke the rear body mount. The $2.00 part back then is hard to fin...

I would use clear double sided tape cut and applied to the back of the labels. https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Brand-Engineered-Dispensered-6137H-2PC-MP/dp/B0025W9AWA?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_2 A fine piece of history. I would keep it a shelfer as well. Agree it would be better to aquire another TC3 and clone...

That looks like a reedy Ti motor