blast from the past oval guys

[SRTracer121]

got a few sets of these today. gripiest tire ive ever seen




vintage dirt oval rc stuff is just so dang cool. i should have been born in the 80's

[Eau Rouge]

If you would have been born in the 80s, you would have missed the entire boom of the dirt oval scene while you were learning to ride a bike.



Silicones are wicked. Fastest dirt oval tire ever. Illegal just about everywhere, though, because they were so fast (no lift, it was all about who had the biggest batteries). Doesn't really look like those are for any real dirt oval car, though. Dish wheels are for touring cars and those didn't exist until the late 90s—well after people stopped using those in dirt oval. Not really sure what that hub pattern is, but it doesn't look very familiar to any oval car I know of.

[scr8p]

If you would have been born in the 80s, you would have missed the entire boom of the dirt oval scene while you were learning to ride a bike.

i was thinking the same thing. i was born in '77 and missed quite a bit.

[kaiser]

i was born in 74, i "cut my teeth" on a banked clay oval (indoor). i miss it alot.
i ran a wedge body rc10 with a jg kit and a bunch of custom parts, and a edm jrx2 (i was the only oval jrx2 at my track) i always ran foams that i cut my self.

those were the days!

[Eau Rouge]

It's easy for me to be really nostalgic about dirt oval racing. I truly enjoyed the days before "kit" cars when people built, scratch-built and created whatever they could to be fast with ingenuity and thought. You used what you could find, make or borrow to adapt to your car to make it fast (or sometimes completely undrivable). Tires were huge, and silicones, direct drives, and Bullet/Bat wedge bodies were the beginning of the end back around 1990.

I speak fondly of my DO days when I was a teen, but honestly at the high point, we would take our 7-cell mod sprint cars to any track in the Midwest, and there was a sprint car class. It was so big at one point, that I was racing Wednesday nights, Friday nights, Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons—all at different local tracks with various bankings, surfaces, sizes and conditions. It was the best times I ever had racing RC cars.



Then one day, a few of the factory Trinity guys showed up with these foam tires covered in silicone and DD cars, and knocked the track record down by 6 laps. Most guys never came back after that, and the game was changed forever.

[SRTracer121]

so i might be off on when id like to be born, i failed math pretty epicly so what would you expect. i really should have said i wish i was racing in the 80's.

the tc rims were used on a 4wd latemodel and the others on a gt sprinter or something.

to answer where i got these ill just link yall to this thread since i dont feel like explaining it again
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=21750

side note, was over there gain yesterday. i had tasked myself with sorting all the boxes and boxes of rc stuff and it took me most of yesterday today and it took me a bit this morning to clear even more stuff.

this guy had a lot. there was a nib stealth tranny conversion kit, seal was broken but the packaging inside was all un-opened, brp tranny's, mip chain drive trannys. 64p gears, cut down gears, trackmaster cars, oval cars out the ying yang, rc10ds thats a work of art, everything! all the stuff ive seen on here but never thought id see in person unless i bought it myself and theres bulk lots of all of it! and whats even crazier is a majority of the cars are assembled and perfectly clean, all have radios, all are essentially ready to go just as is. grab a battery and you can just about win (ill tell you what, that guy new how to setup a car) like posted above in the link, he didnt just buy 1 or 2 he bought like 50! i mean how many rc10gt transmission cases do you actually need? (he needed a box full apparently)

its vintage rc'er heaven.

anyway i need to go change my pants now so yeah

[Eau Rouge]

the tc rims were used on a 4wd latemodel and the others on a gt sprinter or something.

Yeah, I figured. Looked like someone heard about "silicones" and wanted a set of their own, so they made them. Those don't look vintage.

[SRTracer121]

no, the guy was doing silicone caps way back when too, he was 110% old school

also i stand corrected again, those white rims are for buggies, or atleast a 2wd car with ae spindles and a drive pin rear


florida is pretty bas askwards and i think a few tracks here in sfl were still using them up until the mid 90's, ill talk to the guys im doing this with thursday (they need help moving a table they just re-finished) so ill ask then.

he didnt just have a few of these, much like everything else he has boxes of them in used and newly made condition.

[Eau Rouge]

Interesting. I think TM Racing might have been doing RC10 foams that looked like that. Might even still be able to get them.


Cool stuff.

[SRTracer121]

these were proline rims tho, just checked. he might have mounted the foams himself. heres his tire truer...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Max-Mod-tire-truer-dirt-oval-oval-pancar-1-8scale-foams-/150608955414?pt=Radio_Control_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2310fe4816

(sorry for the shameful plug-in there )

the guy was a genius tho so i wouldnt put it past him

[Eau Rouge]

Ahhh yeah, those are current B4 Proline wheels. Definitely not vintage stuff. Cool to see them with foams on them, though.

[SRTracer121]

yeah at any rate they are certainly cool, if yall want i was going to grab up a ton of stuff to list here on thursday, if you guys want a few sets they are on all types of rims and you guys can take a have at it in the bst section

[Clayton]

While on the subject of dirt ovals. I am setting up 2 or 3 (the 3rd being Dad's) RC10's for the family. We are going to create our on dirt track at out house. To the point, I am looking for some sprint car or modified style bodies. If anyone has any they want to let go please PM me or post a message here. Also what would be a good size for our back yard track. Space is not an issue.

Thanks

[SRTracer121]

off the top of my head, barts parts and speedy's

if you want to stand fast tomorrow ill see whats in the stash at the previously mentioned woodshop, there are tons of bodies and i know there are more then a few sprinter bodies nip

[Eau Rouge]

http://www.mcallisterracing.com