I've been working on getting the parts together to rebuild the RC10 I raced in the late '80s on the old school dirt RC tracks of the Northeast USA.
As I remember it, I first put the car together in April of 1987 when I was 12. I was super lucky to have a couple of local guys who were really helpful in guiding me through picking out parts and helping me make the right decisions.
The highlights of the car were a composite craft chassis, A&L trailing arms, Andy's front arms, six gear transmission originally with 32 pitch but ultimately with Thorp 48 pitch gears, transmission modified two have an outdrive bearing and eliminate the small middle bearing, RPS steering arms, Thorp turnbuckles, dubro ball ends on all but the steering, blue litesink, 48p external gears, mirage body, pro-line wheels w/ Schumacher rear tires and CRP front. Radio was an XL2P with a tekin speed controller green label reedy motor to start - Proudly paid for all of this with my own savings that I earned by working since I was 8 years old as a paperboy.
After many iterations modifications and ultimately converting it to a monster truck I sold it to a guy when I was a Junior in high school. Now all these years later I regret that decision and so it is time to find all the parts in build it up again.
Here is where I started: I found most of the parts online. Still looking for turnbuckles and the 48 pitch 6 gears, but other than that close enough to start the build/resto. I found a kind of busted up composite craft chassis and given that I have a lot of years of composites experience I figured I might as well revive it. This car is not going to be perfect so if I find a better chassis down the line in new condition I'll just use that but for now this is a good baseline.
The used chassis had a bunch of scratches, a load of super glue on it, and a couple of holes that look like someone drilled with a jobber drill but other than that it's not in too bad of shape.
