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Hyperdrive conversion:



BME chassis:



TrackMaster graphite chassis:



TrackMaster fiberglass chassis:



Lightz fiberglass chassis:



Grand Motorsports Hugger (top):



Grand Motorsports Vulcan:

Man, that hugger T is sick! How rare is that chassis?

It is more interesting to see all your rides here, rather than just making a google search for generic chassis.


With regards to the on-road "conversions". They are cool, but there is zero RC10 left! A battery tray is not enough to call it an RC10

unclemikey1978 wrote:Man, that hugger T is sick! How rare is that chassis?

I've never seen another one other than that one in my catalog.

kink wrote:With regards to the on-road "conversions". They are cool, but there is zero RC10 left! A battery tray is not enough to call it an RC10

Whaaat? Sure there is! All of them at least use the RC10 rear arm mounts and tranny...but that's about it.

The RC10 wasn't just the stock parts that came in the boxes from AE. All the old aftermarket parts and conversions whether common or rare, popular or obscure, useful or pointless, are also the RC10.

My Bullet RC10 doesn't have many Associated parts on it. The steering knuckles and axles, front hinge pins, the motor plate, and the screws are all. The rest are all aftermarket. It does have a Viper body on it though.

By your logic if I stuck an RC10 battery holder onto a custom alloy Clod Buster style crawler chassis, that would also be classed as an RC10. Your view may be different but there is no way I would agree with that. There has to be a point where it simply stops being an RC10. There has to be a minimum percentage of original parts used. What percentage that is I do not know. That is another argument I guess. But one or two parts is pushing the realms of acceptance I think.

Rather like in 1:1 cars which are heavily modified. A certain percentage of original parts must be used if it is to legally remain described as the original make and model of car. In the UK there is a points system in place, where they add up your score for original parts used. ie, if the original chassis is used, suspension, engine, transmission etc etc. So this allows different combinations of original v new modified items to be swapped, but there is a minium score required, otherwise the car is classified as a whole new vehicle. Then it has to go through IVA certification and be registered as something else.

Another example, in tuned up Supras. Unless the Supra retains its original six speed transmission and IRS is is no longer classified as a Supra. It becomes a custom drag car which is put into the same classes as scratch built caged racers, with the only Supra component being a GRP shell to give it the correct silhouette. Even then, that part is a repro! They become about as much to do with the Supra as Saturn 5.

So I think the word "inspired" by an RC10 should be used on some of these cars. Of course they are still very cool.



Opinions welcome....

i ended up with this
strange set of rc10 hot trick parts

and have never seen another one like it

all the hot trick chassis i have seen since are in the tub shape


at the time i decided it looked like a sprint chassis so i built it that way

It is a Hot Trick sprint chassis. There was also an offset oval chassis for the RC10 and another sprinter that used a rc12 front end and their direct drive transmission. Search the site for "hot trick sprint" and you'll find a pic of it.

The nose on your car is by Composite Craft.

kink wrote:By your logic if I stuck an RC10 battery holder onto a custom alloy Clod Buster style crawler chassis, that would also be classed as an RC10.

Nope. That would be an RC10 battery cup in a Clod Buster since it's chassis dependent. Even if the chassis is aftermarket. My graphite chassis is a direct replacement for an RC10 chassis. RC10 parts all bolt to it. It's an aftermarket RC10 chassis. My front arms are a direct replacement for stock RC10 wide arms. My shock towers are direct replacements for the RC10 shock towers. My gearbox is a direct replacement for the RC10 gearbox(es). It goes on and on. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if only one of these is used at a time on an RC10 or they are all used together. You still call it an RC10.

The Europeans have some weird thing about titles. Oople is full of many examples. Put a new Atomic Carbon chassis on a 22 and suddenly the car is called a Tardis 22. There is also the Akula 22. The way I see it each is a 22. One with an AC chassis and the other with an Akula. Put a mid motor conversion on a XXX and it's suddenly it's no longer a Losi XXX but rather an Atomic Carbon CR2. Just call it a mid motor CR2! I did when I had one. No one here knows what Atomic Carbon is. Mid motor conversion for a B4.1? It's a Centro C4.1.

Ok I can undertsand your point. It does seem a bit of a stretch with the on-road cars though!

i always called them "rc10 based".

fredswain wrote:The Europeans have some weird thing about titles. Oople is full of many examples. Put a new Atomic Carbon chassis on a 22 and suddenly the car is called a Tardis 22. There is also the Akula 22. The way I see it each is a 22. One with an AC chassis and the other with an Akula. Put a mid motor conversion on a XXX and it's suddenly it's no longer a Losi XXX but rather an Atomic Carbon CR2. Just call it a mid motor CR2! I did when I had one. No one here knows what Atomic Carbon is. Mid motor conversion for a B4.1? It's a Centro C4.1.

and like we don't do that here.

Composite Craft - saddle pack version.

scr8p wrote:

fredswain wrote:The Europeans have some weird thing about titles. Oople is full of many examples. Put a new Atomic Carbon chassis on a 22 and suddenly the car is called a Tardis 22. There is also the Akula 22. The way I see it each is a 22. One with an AC chassis and the other with an Akula. Put a mid motor conversion on a XXX and it's suddenly it's no longer a Losi XXX but rather an Atomic Carbon CR2. Just call it a mid motor CR2! I did when I had one. No one here knows what Atomic Carbon is. Mid motor conversion for a B4.1? It's a Centro C4.1.

and like we don't do that here.

I admittedly do call one of my RC10's a Bullet RC10 since it's got Bullet trailing arms and chassis but it's more to differentiate it from my other RC10's. If it was my only RC10 I'd just call it an RC10.