RC10 Factory Works MIP 93' Worlds Racer Restoration

[Vintagemishal]

Oh, and amazingly enough, he only lives minutes from me!

damn we need a local meet sometime

We will see? He does not seem to be very happy that I have this car?? He has not said much, so I am not optimistic.

[GoMachV]

Oh no...here's the part where you find out it was stolen 9 3/4 years ago...

[Vintagemishal]

Believe me, the thought has crossed my mind a few times.

I told him I was restoring the car and would he be willing to give me some more info on the car. He simply said "How did you get that and from who?"

[myfordcnc]

oh no!! I hope it does not turn out like that married with children episode were Al Bundy restores that mustang only to find out it's stolen. And gets it taken away by fuzz.

[Vintagemishal]

Well, it took 3 months for him to respond and he has said nothing about it being stolen yet, so I am hoping he does not. Fact is, I am not entirely sure this was his car as it was not raced by him at the Worlds and Eustace said he did not know how Thomas got the car. It does not look like he is willing to talk about the car, so maybe I am better off not knowing. Not really sure yet why he answered me at all?

[DennisM]

No worries, He´s just having his man period, he´ll come around.
And if not - his loss, I dare say.

[rctenracer]

Was this the race?
[youtube]06b1qwOa6oU[/youtube]

[Vintagemishal]

That would be the race, now I have to find the time to watch it! Thanks for posting that.

[Vintagemishal]

My body finally showed up today.

[THUNDERSTRIKE1]

Its turning out awsome!!! Glad to see you got the esc rewired looks a 100 times better,glad i could help this great project from the past.don

[romulus22]

Look forward to seeing the body painted

[Vintagemishal]

Well, I got the body painted, but I could not be more disappointed. I have had pretty good luck with TBG bodies, but this one is horrific. It took me nearly 2 hours to cut and fit the body. It was just "off" and I could not figure it out. I finally got it to fit somewhat and decided to paint. It wasn't until I started masking off the yellow when I noticed that my lines looked funky. The more I looked, the more I saw. This body is F$CKED up! It is twisted, flares out more on one side, one side pod is wider than the other, and so on. Well, now it is painted and I am stuck with it. Not sure I want to sticker it up as I am not happy. The paint scheme kind of sucks too, but that is how it is supposed to look. Here it is.

[GoMachV]

Id shoot Jon an email, be cool...he will take care of you. I had a batch of TOJ bodies that were warped at one point too

[scr8p]

there's a funny story behind that body........

[GoMachV]

Oh no...that's not "the" body is it?