My Vintage Box Art RC10 replicas

[tamiyadan]

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[aeiou]

Fantastic effort, Ruffy!

You know, I've seen that Futaba ad several times, as well as the other photos of the box art car, but I never really paid attention to the front body mount before. Interesting how it started in that location and then returned again at the end of the tub cars on the Worlds kit.

[tamiyadan]

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[Ruffy]

For years I have been using the body post on all my buggy's off over the right bellcrank, reason being that I could never get the body post hole to align perfectly when it was in the noseplate due to that high angle of attack to the body. So instead of a nice round hole I always ended up with a long slot, and I owned a body post hole maker that made perfectly round holes.
So one day I just did it this way, next thing I realize many other guys had already been doing it too, even before me, on their offroad buggies. Not sure about their reasons for doing it though, but mine was merely to have a nice round hole in the body and not the slot that seemed to always end up getting a rip in it or a tweaked body hole.

Check out this thread on my gold runner, http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15630 and look at the front body post. Notice that even my 1993 World's body has it on the bellcrank as well. I think I started doing this sometime back in 1988.



I see why they had to do it this way on this car, since they did not have a hole for the body post in the noseplate at the time.

[tamiyadan]

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[slotcarrod]

What a fantastic job you have done Ruffy! I'm very jealous! The only problem I see is you did not round the corners of the rear chassis by the motor plate.

I think your decal placement should look like this!



I can only assume that it has the AE logo in the middle as the TEAM ASSOCIATED lettering is the small early type decal and would never stretch the full length of the wing. We have pictures showing both corners of the wing. The Futaba ad shows the TEAM on the left and the box art shows the ED for ASSOCIAT(ED) on the right. I don't think they would have let the space between TEAM ASSOCIATED stay blank? Right???

[Ruffy]

Where do you see the "ED" for associated on the box? The main one ontop looks more like glare on all of my boxes, hard for me to make out the letters of any word. Maybe you have a better picture that you can share here just to see?
Thanks Slotcarrod.

[Ruffy]

If anyone should come across that old Airtronics receiver, or that old Novak ESC like that one with 3 pots please feel free to contact me.

[slotcarrod]

Where do you see the "ED" for associated on the box? The main one ontop looks more like glare on all of my boxes, hard for me to make out the letters of any word. Maybe you have a better picture that you can share here just to see?
Thanks Slotcarrod.

My Edinger box is the clearest, but my picture is not coming out good enough to show you. However, if you hold the ASSOCIATED part of the decal up to the picture, even on the Cadillac boxes you can make out the last few letters. It is blurry, but look back and forth from the decal to the picture of the wing and you will see the same layout of the letters!

This experience comes from years of collecting very rare postage stamps. One wrong water mark can make a $1000.00 difference in value. Poor but rare post marks or obliterators are very hard to see at times. Get the magnifying glass out old dudes!

[scr8p]

i don't know....... it looks like it says rc10talk to me.

[slotcarrod]

Oh Yeah I missed that!

[Ruffy]

Until I get some hard evidence, I'm not going to "assume" to think of what they did on the wing for stickers, and not take anything as factual until such evidence appears on my boxters.
The way I see it, with the evidence available, any and all stickers on the wing that start with "Team" to the left side are all candidates of being correct...unless we get something definitive that shows they split up the words, and also if they put anything between the words or after the words if left together. Also I haven't seen any evidence of any additional stickers that might have been placed on the top of the wing along with the words "Team Associated", like logos, Reedy Modifieds, Chan Racing, etc..
Maybe one day someone will come forward with an image of the top of the wing.

[rctenracer]

Ruffy , your RC10 is amazing as well as your talent . Your research on this car for the correct info has paid off.

[mikedealer]

anyone ever try to track down "chan", mike chan was it? im not sure.. gene talked about it somewhere

[Ruffy]

Chris Chan
Hmmm! Great idea.. I'm on it now! He might have some "legendary" photos still?!


##Removed info I found on him until he answers and to keep his privacy unless he approves of it. I have sent him an email so now we wait , hope and see.