First post here although I've been lurking for a while. A recently sparked interest lead me to pick up what looks like an early RC12E, I'm no expert though, so please feel free to correct me. I'm no stranger to being judged
I plan to turn this into a fairly period correct running shelf queen, with a few minor exceptions.
The car: It looks unmodified except for the ball ends on the steering and some epoxy on the rear body mount. The rear fiberglass brace looks awful and I'm looking for a new one. The car came with an uncut Corvette GTP body that looks too new. On the plus side, the car still has the bushings. No go fast parts for this one.
Electronics: As far as I know, the S7 and S7L servos and the r2f receiver were available in 1978. The servos work perfectly and are surprisingly quiet.
The plan that nothing can possibly go wrong with:
1 Clean and rebuild the car, find some paint for the resistor and tidy it up.
2 Remove most of the board in the rx, leaving only the connectors. Plop in a gyro integrated (cause I can't drive) 2.4ghz receiver in the giant futaba case and wire it to the futaba connectors internally. The only giveaway would be the antenna length. Also I'll add a BEC in the rx case so I don;t overvolt the servos but keep the stock looking but cleverly bypassed diode that used to feed the rx.
3 3d print a dummy 6 cell pack with a cavity for a 2s 1300mah lipo then wrap it in some correct looking heatshrink. This part of the plan is still pretty loose.
4 Find and paint a correct body for this. (I've painted 2 bodies before. A Frog in 1984 which physically hurt to look at, and in 1986 an RC10 that made babies cry.) I've maybe learned the needed patience in the last 31 years. We'll see.
4 Assemble, drive it once in the warehouse at work, then put it on a shelf for all my friends to ignore.
