team car for the VONATS hopefully

[markt311]

I picked this car up from a friend, in a roundabout way I have bngiles to thank. Since he found it for the guy I got it from. It's nothing special right now, just a stock Team Car that hasn't been run very much. It's got a worlds car steering setup on it, other than that it's stock.

The only thing I plan to do for this car to get it ready for the VONATS is put some CVD's on it to get some modern tires on the back. I need to order a body, but at least I have an rc10 finally.

Sorry the workbench (kitchen table ) is so messy, I have a half torn apart 8ight and my brother's slash somewhere in there too.

[FasterLouder]

Mark,that is,IMO,the PERFECT candidate for the Vinatage Nats!
Not perfect,but nice enough to put the schmooze on everyone else .

I'm going to start to try and get a Vintage Off Road class going in NZ.
I have many a perfect candidate...JRX Pro with a XX retrofit would be mine.

PS:Nice flames on the kitchen bench!

[markt311]

We were talking at the track on friday night about getting a vintage class going. We've got 4 or 5 that could race. I'm not planning on doing too much to this car, just setting it up to run some laps.

[delsami]

if you do a vintage class, i recommend doing it for free or half price for a few weeks just to gain interest. we ran this class for a little while and it was fun.

[markt311]

Mark,that is,IMO,the PERFECT candidate for the Vinatage Nats!
Not perfect,but nice enough to put the schmooze on everyone else .

I'm going to start to try and get a Vintage Off Road class going in NZ.
I have many a perfect candidate...JRX Pro with a XX retrofit would be mine.

PS:Nice flames on the kitchen bench!

Thanks, I made my pit board out of a scrap piece of 3/8" lexan I had at work, the paintjob took me about 20 minutes total, I used my left over spray cans.

We'll probably do the vintage cars running with the regular buggies at first since that class is a little empty right now. We have 3 or 4 really fast guys that want to run them though. Since I've only been racing 1/8th scale lately I need to practice with some quick guys. If it takes off I'm hoping to try to put on a vintage race this winter, but I have to see what the interest looks like. I asked the last track owner what he thought of the idea, but never got a response, the track is under new management now though.

[markt311]

the tower order is growing bigtime! I hope the wife doesn't notice , and I don't even have electronics yet!

The look on my Dad's face said it all when I pulled this out of the box to show him, he drove me all over SoCal when I was 11-16 years old and "had" to go to a bunch of races cause of my old motor sponsor.
I hope I'm not annoying anyone by constantly putting new posts in my thread but I haven't been this excited about an rc car since I got my first grasshopper when I was 7.

I want to turn this into the hardcore race rc10 some people wanted to see a while back, I'm pulling out all my old tricks I learned from some old AE sponsored guys when I was a kid. Hopefully I can make this year's VONATS with it.

Either way I'm going to give it to him for Father's Day after I'm done with it

[Brandon G]

I don't think we'll have any difficulty talking Robert into doing a vintage race this winter if the interest is there... Heck, he would probably race in it himself. I know he has a few oldies in the basement....

That team car wont take much work to get her ready. I rebuilt the diff (I think) before handing it to Dave.

[Brandon G]

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=9253&p=87230&hilit=ultima+rb#p87230

Mark, I haven't verified what we were talking about Friday, but I will check tonite.

[Brandon G]

Mark, these wheels should definetely fit. They have the 3/16" hole and have about a zero offset. Should fill the bill for the new 2.2" tires.

[markt311]

too bad they're out of stock at kyosho, hopefully they will restock soon

[Dnewish2]

Very nice runner.
Its funny how bringing one of these oldies to the track will get the talk of vintage racing going.