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Well, I woke up to "no route" so I decided to take a drive. Two and a half hours later I'm in eugene at the hobby shop that made these creations.

Asked the guy at the counter if anyone there would have been working 26 years ago.

Yup


Just went to lunch. DOH!

Shopped a bit, disappointed that they have little to no old stock. Got an hour left to dig up more change for the parking meter lol. Killin time...killin time....

Anyone wanna play words with friends?

Well you are only about 140 miles from me lol

Although I doubt the Moke would make it to Eugene willingly...

Chris

clm wrote:Well you are only about 140 miles from me lol

Although I doubt the Moke would make it to Eugene willingly...

Chris

Is that the shop in downtown Eugene? I have been there many times back to when i was a kid.

Lots of info was found!

check this out...Mr Graphite in 3D

Don't get yer hopes up...just a pic


Got some driving to do now. Ill update more tonight

HAH Awesome. Did you bring your aluminum repro?

Edit: So is there now plans to do a box art?

Wow! That Mr. Graphite figure totally made my day!

What Beetle body and front tires were used on that? Any idea on how many kits were made?

Imagine if they would have still had some of those kits in the back room.

Awesome work, this is looking like a really cool build. The original pics looks sweet.

LTO_Dave wrote:Wow! That Mr. Graphite figure totally made my day!

What Beetle body and front tires were used on that? Any idea on how many kits were made?

Imagine if they would have still had some of those kits in the back room.

Last time i was in that shop he brought me out a box of what was left of there old stock and it wasnt a whole lot i bought most of the tamiya stuff and there wasnt any rc10 parts.

Don't recognize the front tires but the body looks like it could be an MRP Beetle with the wheel wells cut off.

I am still driving... I will give you all more info a little bit later

There were about 100 kits made, some reaching over to England
The chassis was made locally
Mystery hollow threaded rod is made by kimbrough
There was an offset oval version with battery cutouts made!

I did take the aluminum version with me, I would call the feeling "blown away" lol

He has seen this thread now, and hopefully will be joining in on it!

gomachv wrote:....
There was an offset oval version with battery cutouts made!
...

Wish I hadn't heard about that.

I knew that would get you!

gomachv wrote:There was an offset oval version with battery cutouts made!

I'll take one of those kits too, please.

I actually have plans of making an on-road/oval version if you decide to make the kits.

It's going to happen. I'm sourcing some metal to have formed for the mold, and with Phin's help I think we have someone to lay up the chassis 4 at a time (might only be one batch?!)

With the re-re out its easy to get the parts now, and it's a repro anyway so why not!

The carbon parts are going to be pricy, but not out of control pricy (IMO). Just have to keep in mind it's a very limited re-production

This fronts look familiar. AJ's I'm sure. Need to do some digging.