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Okay I just got these and they are my first so being that I am not that knowledgeable at identifying the multiple variations of this chassis,what exactly is it that I have here??

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first is an original 6 gear rc10, yours is a cadillac editon 86ish
second a championship edition with stealth gearbox, 1992

very nice buggies you have there

Thank you sir!!!! I don't think they are bad at all for the $80 I spent on both RTR with everything you see in the pics.The first one I just finished doing a complete teardown and rebuild and while I was at it made a carbon brace for the top of the trans to replace the stock plastic one.The second car has yet to be done. Whats with the black part in the my CE'S steering linkage and the black shock caps,are they from a newer black plastic equipped RC10??


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This one is a little worse off but still not bad,the front nose is dented in and it has more scratches,the diff shaft has a little play in it also making me think that the bearings/bushings are worn out. The front aluminum side pipes are bent also so I am thinking he had a hard front end impact at some point.You can see the damage in the first front end pics I posted. Hopefully I can pound that dent out somehow without damageing the anodizing.

the top one is the original rc10 gold pan. if you remove the motor, you will see the letter "A" stamped in to the chassis.
this is the 1984 version.the first gold pan.

the other one with the green motor is a "B" or "C" stamped gold tub. those came with better transmissions than the original did.also the front control arms are different from the 1984.

rc10 gold pans look the same, but they are differnt in many ways! all the parts are interchangeable.. the only thing you cant do is install a stealth trans in to the "A" stamped tub, you can do it if you drill, but drilling is not nice.
these all are different on the A, B,C stamped gold pans.

front A arms, rear A arms, front shock towers , rear shock towers, bulk head,transmissions, but these are all interchangeable.

your cars appear to be period correct (meaning that they appear to have the original parts) the one with the wholes in the wheels, i dont think those were factory,
im still learnig about these goldpans, the B and C ones any way, the original 1984 cars i can build them by the book with out the book. nice cars though, id do a resto and shelf em!!

The hole'd wheels are pro lines. I definately plan to run both of these as soon as I get my lexan under covers

you can probably bend the nose plate back slowly and gently in a vise, with a cloth or thick paper on the vise jaws to prevent scratching the anodizing. If the aluminum is stretched far enough that is has hairline cracks, there isn't much you can do to make that go away, sometimes bending back into place closes up the cracks so they practically dissapear though.