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klavy69 wrote:

SMOKE-DOG wrote:Wait... You dyed those white parts black?

it happens

Yes it does. And I did it in 1984. It took AE like another 10+ years to figure out it looked decent that way.

slotcarrod wrote:Love it! What body and paint you doing?

I still don't understand why you did not smile or at least look happy in that 1984 picture? You should of had a big $h!t eating grin on your face! Like Mr Green !

Is Mr. Green in pain because his braces just got tightened? Thats my only possible explanation.

Well here it is, after a few more finishing touches I will have to get one of the Gallery pages..

Damit, this thing is just beautiful!
Looks just like a car I would have raced back then, tires and all. In fact, everything!
Very Nice Job, She makes me drool!

I really like the early RCHR stickers you have on the body, I got some of the later ones with the yellow horizontal lightning bolt.
Excellent!

Very nice job on this. it really makes me what to fins part to build my original gold 10. But in your case it is phenomenal that this is actually you original car.
love it.

Thanks for the props. Can you believe that's the original painted body I got when I got the kit? Those original Protech's are just bullet proof, even if part of it is missing, and probably heavy by today's standards. I think I'll type up one of those parts lists for the Gallery some of you guys do. That would be fun. I almost forgot this shot...

Ohh... For some reason I was thinking you JUST dyed the parts. Had to go back and look at the pics. Car looks great by the way.

Brian,
I really like your car!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but a lot of it has to do with the fact it looks just like the old RC10's we used to race in the very early years of the RC10. I remember running those front tires and wheels, and a homemade wing kinda like yours with the lexan side dams added on afterwards and all. Your paint job looks great still too.
I only choppped the back-end of the body off of mine on one body after all these years and I personally didn't like it like that so that never happened again, but I just had to tell you that your car looks freaking awesome.
I could only wish that I would have kept my original RC10 parts, because even though I never sold an RC10 that I owned, I did mix and match parts and also experiment alot.
I think I know where my original chassis and nosepiece is... We used to do some cement paved oval racing from time to time on an outdoor roller skating ring for the public, that had steel tubes around the outside to support the handrails at the top of the banked turns and all around the ring. I remember a few of us hitting those steel poles, and I may have been one of them and eventually just got new parts to repair my buggy and a new chassis and nose plate. The old original parts went into an "experiment" bin I used to have for material to have around.
Needless to say it is probably part of a landfill or went to a reclaimed metals depot and was transformed into something else. I just wish I had it with me like you had yours. Who would have known back then, that many years later we would be wanting these things back. Collecting anything was never part of my personality.
Congrats on a great car, and just had to tell you how much I like it!

So that body is your original and it still looks that good? Did you paint that or did you buy it painted back in the day?

That is a sweet looking body and sweet looking fully tuned chassis! Ruffy is right, It just looks the part of a vintage racer and brings back great memories!

slotcarrod wrote:So that body is your original and it still looks that good? Did you paint that or did you buy it painted back in the day?

It came painted with the car. I remember RCH had painted body/small spoiler combos hanging on the wall behind the counter shortly after they got the cars in, so I was able to pick one off the wall and swap it out for the unpainted shell in the box. I don't know if it's technically an AE/Curtis paint job (6160P) or it was someone else, but it's not signed (note Andy's was selling signed SRB/Scorpion bodies on the wall too at that point - they looked too hot to handle even then). I got it winter of '84. That's all I remember Rod. It's a bit of a different style than those blue and white ones you guys have. Could have been an in-shop job, I don't know.

My favorite picture of your car:


Do you have any more "back in the day" pictures of you racing it, or running it on the beach, etc...?

Ruffy wrote:
Do you have any more "back in the day" pictures of you racing it, or running it on the beach, etc...?

Just this one scanned,



I know I found a 1 or 2 but misplaced them before I could scan them. They'll show up at some point.

Awesome Picture!
There's that body in the toolbox.
You know I still have one of those tables but in blue.

If you ever find the other pics, you got to scan them quick!

Found 'em. First 2 are at Ascot in Gardena. There was a circle track that incorporated an infield to convert it to an off road alignment. The last the Ranch in Del Mar, but I don't know where my car is. That blue blur might actually be my SRB. I don't know.

This ain't a bad shot, cropped at hi res..look at the who's who of mfgs along the brick wall...

Is that Ernie P. sitting there in the white and yellow shirt, or Gary Kyes? Could be either of them.
Kinda looks like them.

Thank-you for these awesome pictures!
I remember racing on tracks where the barriers were all banked dirt mounds!
Man does this take me back to when I was young.

What wheels did you use on the Tamiya tyres ?


Morten