Very Early Prototype Associated Cars from Curtis

[Ruffy]

Curtis and I have been emailing back and forth quite a bit thanks to Gene for getting our emails to each other, after messaging Gene.
During this time we spoke about the development of the RC10 cars and also regarding the wing for his Box Art car, which I will be painting a wing for now once his package gets to me.
During these emails we exchanged some photos back and forth and he has granted me the honor of sharing some of these with this great forum, for everyone to enjoy.
First up are pictures of the early prototype RC10 as you have never seen it before. Curtis machined everything, including the jellybean wheels here. You can see how nice the chassis turned out and the classic very light gold anodizing. Very Nice!

Motice how thick the chassis is here in the back lip area!

Here are images of the prototype B2, that Curtis machined the chassis out of a single blank of nylon. Notice how nice the front end parts are! Curtis is just amazing.

The last photos are of one of the Stealth cars used at the 1989 IFMAR Off-Road Worlds held in St. Ives, Australia that he still has with him:

Curtis and I both knew you guys would love to see these prototype items, which are usually left behind the velvet development curtain, but he really wanted you guys to view these and for this to be on this forum, hopefully in a sticky, for all to enjoy as they are the first ever images taken and shown of some items here.

[Ruffy]

Since this might be worthy of being a sticky topic, I am also going to add his car pictures here... and one more of the Stealth Car.

Here are some additional photos sent by Curtis of the earliest RC10 prototype parts that he hand made! Notice the hand made chassis tub!

Here he shows the hand made wheels for the RC10T! Imagine all of the hard labor hours Curtis went through going into making these.

[shane]

[RC10resto]

great stuff - thanks for posting!

[Soncho Ponza]

cool iv been wailting for a long time to see what colors were on that checker scheme from the manual .

[Bormac]

Simply awesome! Thank you for going to the trouble and sharing these pics with us. I've never seen detailed pics of the 89 worlds RC10 before. Thankyou!

[delsami]

i really enjoy the b2. the best is the rear of the stealth car, makes the rpm rear worlds conversion kind of accurate i think..

THANKS FOR SHARING, I CHECK THE SIGHT EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF COOL STUFF LIKE THIS!

[shodog]

Jason is going to love seeing a color photo of the checkerboard rc10

[bearrickster]

Since this might be worthy of being a sticky topic, I am also going to add his car pictures here... and one more of the Stealth Car.

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CurtisHustingCar.jpg

curtiswithhisoriginalrc1.jpg

I see alot of parts that look like the ones on Masami's car very cool

[Ruffy]

All thank-you's to Curtis for sharing these with the forum members of RC10Talk!

Truly an amazing set of pictures for all of us to enjoy.
Here is another of the Prototype RC10T truck wheel that he hand made.

[RedScampi]

Thanks to you and to Curtis for sharing! These are simply amazing photos. Do you know if these pictures are current/recent?

[Ruffy]

These were just taken a few days ago.

[rc10johnny]

Thanks Ruffy,Curtis also. I guess I been mountin my servo savers on ass backwards all these years

[m_vice]

Absolutely amazing stuff, Thanks Ruffy for the effort and Curtis for allowing this to happen. Awesome stuff, I LOVE IT.

It is so interesting, the B2 looks o have B3 parts on it. This might have to do with the B2 being rushed out to race and this is why the B3 was an upgrade probable after further testing.

Thanks for everything.

[SteveK]

Awesome pictures.

I remember there was a ton of secrecy over the '89 car, no pictures with the body off, worked on it behind closed doors, etc. That's where the 'Stealth' name came from. Then they finally showed in a magazine a few years later and it looked like a more mild variation of the RC10 than the car used at the '91 Worlds.

http://aedownloads.com/pdf/australianrc10.pdf

http://aedownloads.com/pdf/detroitrc10.pdf

And then they ended up running the standard tub chassis car for another 4 years and winning a championship with IT LOL