Back story...
This graphite team car sat in a local hobby shop display case in perfect condition for over 6 years that I have been going to it, until three months ago. I always drooled over this car and the perfect early gold pan sitting next to it, but the owner never wanted to sell them.
A few months ago a guy at the local indoor carpet track that we go to on Saturdays offered the owner of this shop $60 for the PERFECT graphite team car and the owner took it!!
Well I watched this fellow drive this car at the track for 6-7 weeks every Saturday night and he about utterly destroyed it in the B4 class because he can't drive too good.
There wasn't a single straight turnbuckle on it, ball cups in rough shape, the axles were bent, he drilled holes in the front for a bumper, he hit the front hard soooo many times it started to crack and delaminate the front end pretty bad thus needing the bumper, the tires now almost bald, destroyed the rear bulk head, the body and wing were destroyed, battery box cut and hacked for Lipo's, scratched up the rear end gold part, and a few other small things..
One Saturday night I went to the track and he was driving a new Traxxis Bandit buggy in the B4 class and he had this poor graphite team car sitting on the table in a heap for $40.
I couldn't get my wallet out of my pocket fast enough, I was glad I had the $$$ on me to get it.
Here is the car after I threw in about $65 in new parts and such at it and put a little time in it to rescue it. It will now be a shelf queen,I tried saving the front end the best I could, but I don't think it will take more thrashing, so it will have to be retired.
I hope you enjoyed the pics as much as i did the build.
Lynn
