Someone should take on this Masami replica.

[Phin]

Masami's 1989 Reedy Invitational car.

Highlights:
-Custom graphite chassis with 3 forward and 4 rear battery slots.
-MIP SP1 transmission
-Andy's suspension arms (3 white + 1 black )
-Yoke shocks in the rear Deltas laid down up front
-Custom shock towers and battery strap (rear tower looks like it's actually mounted to the back of the bulkhead )

Way beyond my level of commitment but too cool a project car to not see replicated.

[tiger1]

wonder how it worked in 1989....

[minimini]

more pictures please

[RichieRich]

Interesting optima-like laydown front shocks. Wonder how it handled.

[minimini]

the front camber is quite huge

[Phin]

wonder how it worked in 1989....

He came in 3rd.

Here are the scans of the articles that the pics were pulled from (second is in French):

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=22021

http://www.retromodelisme.com/page_magazine/17566/auto-8-43-mar-1989-page-40.html


Unfortunately no pics of the body used on the car. I couldn't even spot it anywhere in those pics of Masami in his collection of cars.

[fredswain]

Masami would have still finished on the podium with an RC10L. That guy can drive!

[Phin]

Found some more pics on The Hirosaka R/C Legends site: http://hirosaka.jp/story24.html

Looks like a different version of the car...chassis is narrower, all 4 arms are white, wheels and wings are changed, and it's got a Yoke under tray. The couple of body on pics don't show enough detail but it doesn't look like it's using Masami's typical paint scheme.