Rally Cars

[pituk]

I just picked this up recently on Craiglist. I drove about a hour to pick it up and ended up spending another hour talking rc with the seller and tinkering around with the car before I went home. Its actually a Celica Gr.b with the Porsche body set ( best of both worlds in my humble opinion , Celica's upgrades with the Porsche body) with extra wheels , rally tires , manual and Magnum Jr. It was very well maintained , the only problem I could find was a quarter inch crack on the body's rear bumper and missing spoiler. All I did was wipe of the dust and tidy up the wiring. Its actually faster than I thought it would be , did some nice drifts in the parking lot.





Any rally fan's? Lets see some pics. Group shot with Hpi Rs4 Rally's.

[SMOKE-DOG]

Nice find, that's a classic. Tamiya should re-re these.

[j.d.roost]

Nice score there!Body is in good shape.
I may have an extra rear wing for that. I'll take a look this weekend.

[pituk]

Sounds good , j.d.roost. Found a cool promo video , wonder if it survived that first jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE1MEdVEycQ

[wts873]

I have a RS4 rally I need to post up here I have always loved those old tamiya, but they are always out of my price range Nice find!!

[mrlexan]

Its actually a Celica Gr.b with the Porsche body set ( best of both worlds in my humble opinion , Celica's upgrades with the Porsche body)

You sure? I has the Porsche front body mount and the Porsche wheels? Flip er over and see which the skid plate is, Celica or Porsche (they were different).

[transamman908]

Looks to be a Celica. It has the celica drive shaft(one without the dogbone style ends)

[mrlexan]

Good point, I didn't catch that in the image.

[MOmo]

I love the HPI Rs4 Racer. The Tamiya ones were ahead of their time. I Dig the Porsche.

I would love to get my hands on some of the older ones, namely the Celica Rally.

I have an RS4 Rally as well. i love that car, prolly the car i had the most fun with. Its got all the upgrades. Im thinking about digging it out to run at my local track again.



MOmo

[j.d.roost]

pituk
I found that spoiler. Pm me your address.
I'll ship it out to you.

[vintage racer]

There is a guy on ebay doing a lexan repro of the Celica.You can find him in the Ebay talk section under the JRX2 body post.

[plymouthgasser]

i have one of the repop celica bodies from ebay.
looks great but you still need the tamiya rear deck lid
looks great on my m03

[shodog]

what a great find. If you plan to run it much, then you should invest in the aluminum suspension parts off of ebay. The front arms and and knuckles have plastic that is not UV stable. My new built shelf sitter even has a broken knuckle just merely from sitting.