Team car (tub) build

[scr8p]

The spur should be white since the other parts are.

Wing wire was not pre-bent.

[slotcarrod]

For some reason there were some later all white Team Cars with a black spur gear, long before other parts became black. Was this a strength reason? Not sure, but many racers at the time were dying/boiling white parts to strengthen them. Were people thinking that a black spur would last longer than a white? I'm sure I remember one of the selling points of AE switching to black being a new stronger composition! Spur gears were and still are one of the best selling parts!

I would slap that minty white spur on, it's just that much cooler!

[scr8p]

hmm..... i can't say i remember seeing black spurs on white cars but hey, anything is possible.

[Jedi Master]

i believe there was an early/late(r) deal with black and gold springs. pretty sure my team car came with gold springs, but i think they were eventually swapped out in favor of black.

not 100% on that......

Not sure if its an 'early' or 'late' edition, but my BNIB Team Car build, which I'm embarrassed to say is still on my work bench, came with black, green and silver springs. Defo no gold.

[marlo]

I want to get some advice on this. Is this pack anything special, or "rare". I haven't seen one around in a long time. I need to get 8 bearings out of it. I am not sure if I should open it and save money or go out and buy them and save this pack..... Check out the $80 price though.

[Charlie don't surf]

I have an all black team car, it was missing a few bags and even the chassis but still in the box. I foolishly opened this bag before snapping the pic but this is what was there- black worlds bulkhead, plastic brace, and black cut nose. There isn't any other combo that this bag could have come from other than a team car as far as I can tell. Worlds would have a carbon brace and worlds tower, champ was a gold nose, etc.

Like a fart in the wind, nobody commented on this discovery

There are more variations to the standard 6035 and 6036 Team Car kits than most realize, the above being the very last of them.

Green coated springs (not powder) and black were the first kits, later to be powder coated (green anyway) springs.

Jason, most of us North East guys remember the Gold springs because we only ever use the golds and silvers on Ovals

[slotcarrod]

I would like to see a sealed in box one, or one that was unmolested! Who is to say that one was original? I'm all for new info but unless we are sure?????

[GoMachV]

Well, I'm the one that opened the bag that's what was in there, and as mentioned above- what other kit could it have come from?

[Charlie don't surf]

And I'm 90% you sent me a pic before opening with questions-

[knixdad]

The older kits always had a chance of random parts in them. Honestly I think that is part of the fun of finding older NIB kits, who knows what they could have in there.

I just opened a TC3 Rally Conversion kit, factory sealed. It took me a few minutes before I realized all the parts were correct except the wheels. Instead of the Rally spoke wheels, it had 4 Yokomo white dish wheels in the package. I found it quite amusing.

[tommykart]

I want to get some advice on this. Is this pack anything special, or "rare". I haven't seen one around in a long time. I need to get 8 bearings out of it. I am not sure if I should open it and save money or go out and buy them and save this pack..... Check out the $80 price though.

Yeah i feel you there, and i remember paying that too now you can get bearings from Avid for $2 a piece

[marlo]

I was in the maintenance department today at my work and for whatever reason the maintenance guy had this drawer of screws open. While looking, I noticed he had some of the same type of screw with the 4 dots that are used to hold the stealth tranny down. He let me help myself to a handful. And also, 1 really large version. Look at the size of that thing. 3 more of them and a chassis, I can build myself a full sized RC10, well kind of.

[GoMachV]

You'd need some big nuts for those!

[marlo]

My finished Team car. Thanks to all who chipped in.

[RC10resto]

as they say in Canada "beauty eh"