1993 Japanese Off Road Nationals

[Atlas]

Found an old Japanese R/C Magazine with coverage on the 1993 Japanese Off Road Nationals. Also an old Yokomo ad from the same magazine. Unfortunately not the best quality due to upload size limit.

[markt311]

Cool a front wheel drive class!!

[m_vice]

This is awesome. THANK'S

[Atlas]

Here are some close up pictures.

[Atlas]

More pictures.

[jooles]

Do you know what are those cars in the FF class? Are those homemade prototypes or production cars? The third one has Vanquish rear A arm I think...

Ju

[vintage AE]

Do you know what are those cars in the FF class? Are those homemade prototypes or production cars? The third one has Vanquish rear A arm I think...

Ju

Those are cool...front wheel drive and those weired rear suspension setups, wow

[SteveK]

All handmade AFIK. There was one as early as 1989 in a issue of RCCA, it looked exactly like those with the rear swing arms. Must have been a 'Japanese' thing, I never saw or heard of one over here.

The only production FWD off-road car I've ever seen was the Kyosho Maxxum, basically an Ultima/Optima-type car with the gearbox turned around. It looked nothing like those, the motor was behind the front wheels and had a traditional chassis layout otherwise, so it was bad on rough American tracks with low traction. I always wondered why they even produced it, what the market was for it. I guess there was one in Japan at the time, but I still can't see why it looked nothing like those cars.

[Jirka]

Do you know what are those cars in the FF class? Are those homemade prototypes or production cars? The third one has Vanquish rear A arm I think...

Ju

The winner seems to have a "Ryuz"-named buggy (sticker in rear wing). I don't know was that a complete car kit or some kind of modification to some Kyosho? car. That Ryuz has been mentioned here in rc10talk at least here:http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=14454&start=0&hilit=ryuz

Jirka

[GJW]

thanks for sharing some very interesting set-ups. masami is so young