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I went to my local hobby shop today to pick up some paint for my crawler body and to see if they might have any old AE parts. After looking around, I see a big cardboard box filled with bodies and marked 20% off. To my surprise, sitting right on top was a NIP A&L Roadkill. And buried at the bottom was a NIP McAllister Nissan GTP.






After asking the guy if he had any old AE parts, he dug out a small box from the back and let me rummage through it. These were the only old parts they had, so I got them for about 50% off.

I visted my LHS again today after finding a few cool items last week, and found a few more parts including a Parma 75MHz flexible antenna for Futaba, Cheetah Racing decals and 8/32 nylon lock nuts:

Picked up this painted Andy's 1/10 TOJ and another NIP A&L Roadkill body from my LHS 20% bin yesterday. I paid under $30 with tax for the TOJ.





When I visited last year, they told me the ones in the 20% off bin were the only old bodies they had left. I guess they found more.

Man, you keep getting lucky in that place! Nice pile o stuff!
I have one of those antennas and wondered what it was, thanks!

what is he bringing in old stuff from home for you is he? or has it always been there? great gear well done

Seeing the Andy's, McAllister and A&L header cards all in one post makes me think we should start a cool header card thread. Each one was probably designed by the owner himself.

EDIT: The Cheetah, Parma and AE are cool too.

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote:Seeing the Andy's, McAllister and A&L header cards all in one post makes me think we should start a cool header card thread. Each one was probably designed by the owner himself.

EDIT: The Cheetah, Parma and AE are cool too.

That's a great idea! Time to start digging through the pile

I took another trip today to get a GM 27T motor that my LHS had listed online. After looking for about 30 minutes, the said he must have sold it already.

But he said that he had a tray of motors in the back that he would let me look through. After seeing a nice selection of old motors, I picked up a Trinity Speedworks Super Speedway (Now with 23 turns! ) and a Trinity P2K Paradox 2000 27T...each for $20. And I picked up a few old Losi parts for my JR-X2 build:

I recently picked up a NIP Trinity Monster Horsepower motor, PROTOform '96 T-Bird HS light weight body and a can of this:

Nice score(s) LTO. I still remember the smell of that motor cleaner

I'll bet it smells suspiciously like the stuff you spray into your carburetor to help it start on a cold day...but probably cost 3 times the price.

I think he is bringing in his stash and waiting for you to come in to buy the stuff...Nice score...

Coelacanth wrote:I'll bet it smells suspiciously like the stuff you spray into your carburetor to help it start on a cold day...but probably cost 3 times the price.

Negative... I use carb cleaner regularly. I wish I could still find B12 Chemtool in an aerosol can I don't recall that the motor cleaner removed paint or motor decals either.

The good stuff contained trichloroethane. I sure wish I wore gloves back then

gomachv wrote:The good stuff contained trichloroethane. I sure wish I wore gloves back then

In 1993-94, I worked in a factory making correction fluid products. We had 30-40 55 gallon drums at all times. i used to wash my hands in 5 gallon pail of the stuff. I know better now.

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