Reintegration: Towards the end of last year, a few friends of mine picked up various Traxxas off-roaders and decided to get into R/C as a safe/socially distanced quarantine hobby. Naturally, instead of making things easy for myself and picking up an RTR so I could go bash along with them... I say bash, but we actually had something like 25-30 yards of dirt dumped into the empty lot behind my friend's house and rented a Bobcat to build a rudimentary circuit (boy is this hobby different as an adult
).... but yeah, instead of opting for an RTR, I decided that I had to resurrect this ol' boy out from the depths of purgatory and dive down the rabbit hole of figuring out what's what in the current lay of the R/C land, after being completely removed for around 20 years. Still can't really wrap my head around the fact that most of the tracks are carpeted now though. Nothing says "off-road" more than... carpet? I know its way easier to maintain and reconfigure but call me a purist or something...Anyways, as you can tell from the pics, it's a fairly basic non-team-edition build and in mediocre shape - I respected the sh*t out of it when driving back in the day, but it definitely saw some time on asphalt between weekends at the racetrack. The only hop ups I could remember/identify were a full ball-bearing kit and the RPM gear cover (and maybe the mismatching HPI/RPM wheels if you count those as upgrades). As a 10/11 year-old I couldn't afford an airbrushed paintjob from the local hobby shop and I also didn't believe in myself enough to attempt rattle-canning it on my own, so the body stayed clear
TL:DR I've owned this RC10T2 for like 25 years, it's been sitting as a roller since like 1998, I'm reviving it so that I can stomp the sh*t out of all my friends' Traxxas garbage on the racetrack, and I wanna get my post count up so I can use the marketplace
Enough for now/more to come
