I picked this one up a while back, it appears to be home made and perhaps by more than one person as the work on the cage is far nicer than the engine mount,
It also shows signs it was built and ran, not sure where i will go with it but should get it up and running all old school style.
For now it rests in my RC boneyard.
This next one i cant recall where or how i ended up with it,
Duratrax or?
I would like to mod and build it.
it started life as a standard sprint car chassis, but I couldn't tell you the brand, but pretty much I think there was only one or two companies that made them from wire like that.
there are losi shocks on the rear, losi front arms. traxxas transmission/driveshafts and traxxas rear arms (I think). what look like kyosho gold shocks up front.
here is where it gets interesting:
the drive system is a hodge podge of shafts, bearing supports and gears, the bevel gear set are from a tamiya differential, probably hornet, grasshopper, but there are a boat load of different ones. This was a gas powered car, and this drive shaft system connected the nitro motor to the traxxas transmission. pretty neat way to get the power to the ground.
Holy smoke! The drivetrain on that sprint car is unreal! Curious how well those white plastic (Tamiya?) bevel gears would hold up under the strain of nitro power. That might be the craziest drivetrain setup I've ever seen, but it is pretty freaking cool! A true homage to the days when we made stuff work with what we had.
I thought the sprint car was just too weird to pass up, i have less into it than the front aluminum wheels would cost used,
Ill build it out or trade it off, part of my batcave boneyard.
While to me it has a hack feel at first ( remember the early rc10 nitro conversions) whoever built it really wasnt a hack,
See the disk in from of the spur gear, it had a go kart band style brake, everything fits very well, i too thought i recalled that wire cage but dont recall who was making them,
It shows signs it ran, how good well thats anyones guess at the moment, but i used to run things like kyosho assault/rampage, futabu safari, i love those old nitro buggys with engines hanging out the rear, the were heavy as a brick, handled like a shopping cart but were so much fun.
