I always hear about something like this happening at a thrift shop but everytime I go, I'm lucky if I find one shirt that fits that doesn't have a gnarly stain!
I did find some small bread pan that made a great container for all my glue and oils! I am lucky!
SnoopMaxx wrote: Oh my.......
That's a B2 sport ..Right
Mmm? I thought the sport version had gold shocks?.... but then I can see bushes in the front wheel? Also, did the B2 come with the two peice front..... & rear wheels?
Good score whichever.... B2s seem to be pretty thin on the ground these days, certainly not popular (yet) with collectors
It did
#9311 short front
#6424 long rear
It also had 1/4" axles with dogbones and a viper resistor speed controller
bushings all around
Yes the B2 sport did come with 3 piece wheels front and rear
#6804Y rear
#6854Y front
man...makes my $40.00 (well used) team B2 seem pricey!!! Nice score. I gotta hit these thrift stores....
I tell ya, I hear all these stories of these thrift store/yard sale buys.....all I ever see is lamps and broken vacuum cleaners and other house crap....and a cordless drill with dead batteries that the guy wants almost full price for.....
Thanks. This is the #9011. It did have the gold shocks, but I replaced them with my green ones. It had a mechanical speed controller with all sorts of bad soldering and the resistor was held on to the shock upright with a twisty tie(garbage). It also had the 'dogbone' axles which I replaced with my shiny cvd's(I posted a tip in here regarding those). And those are bushings in those front wheels. I keep the bearings in the ones I run, these are like brand new and the tires are still shiny and tacky/sticky feeling to the touch. They were missing the inner rings for the 3 piece wheels. The motor is my old trusty Reedy Firehawk and the esc is a Novak 'Racer' that a friend gave to me a long time ago. And it didn't have a body with it.
This is not my absolute best score. That honor goes to the brand new Iwatta Eclipse airbrush that Hobby Lobby sold to me for $7.99! Just because it was 'out of the box' and didn't come with an airhose.
jwscab wrote:man...makes my $40.00 (well used) team B2 seem pricey!!! Nice score. I gotta hit these thrift stores....
I tell ya, I hear all these stories of these thrift store/yard sale buys.....all I ever see is lamps and broken vacuum cleaners and other house crap....and a cordless drill with dead batteries that the guy wants almost full price for.....
Yeah you aint the only ones. As far as thethrift stores around here you are lucky if you find any cheapo rc. I used to look all the time, but here latley it aint wrth it and dont get me started on yard/garage sales.
Nice score man. Hope you get to enjoy it as often as you can.
You run me in the grass imma run you in the wall, drive like a racer not a flippin idiot
I love thrift stores. All of my vintage toy grade cars have come from them. I picked up this awesome Nikko Scorpion today for only 10 bucks! It has the original battery, but unfortunately no controller. And the truck itself has no life, even with a...
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That's scrubbed up nice :!:
Probably has better ride because of the tires acting as part of the suspension , I found with my hopper mods that choosing really soft rear tires off the Kyosho Scorpion really helped the ride .
i found a rc10 nds in a thrift store. while it is just a chassis roller and fuel tank it is in perfect condition. no scratches the tires haven't even been glued up yet. i don't know what i'm going to do with it yet, get it running or not. i'm not...
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I was at a local thrift story a few month's ago and found an almost complete Losi XX rolling chassis for $25. Missing was a body, electronics, spur gear, hydradrive, servo posts, and slipper plates/pads. The shocks included aren't OEM Losi, and do...
its a older hardware store with a old hobby shop instore. got a vintage 1/12 scale bolink car with a porsche body and extra wheels/tires 1 pair has aluminum wheels, kyosho usa 1 chrome motor, andys painted associated b-2 body, 1/12 scale associated...
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That is a sweet b2 body! I would love to find one for my B2
So i got a couple more YZ10's off eBay, I was hoping the listing would end close to the starting price (Not very low), all looked good up till about 10 min left and someone started jacking the price up grrrrr.... needles to say that got me in the...
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Well i dont feel quit as bad now lol, A single YZ10 just sold for 360 lol, Looks like the same guy attempted to get this one also and lost at the end, I hope he get the next one, i feel bad now lol.
Our web host decided to migrate us to a new server this weekend. THey didn't tell us, just did it. It failed migration and broke a bunch of stuff. Our folder for all web sites is actually empty on the new server. Fortunately they suck at their job...
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Yeah, I get that a lot. Most people go straight to eBay and never do a search on Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Mistake, not just for my store, but other stores as well. It is how I made big deals in the past, buying out whole stores.
One of the few hobby shops still going strong in the detriot area.
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The prop shop is still open just not a lot of rc10 parts left :mrgreen: and dirt burners moved to Livonia, P&D hobbies and MIS is a newer on road track and hobby shop are both Groesbeck.