Traxxas Wildcat

[JK Racing]

Never heard of this before. Read up and found Traxxas recalled them weeks after releasing them? Never to be seen again.

Taken from another forum:



I've really been eyeballing the TRX3/TCP cars lately and this caught my eye.

[drbelleville]

In some ways its looks like a clone of maybe the Tamiya hotshot. If you look at the front arms, it looks like the provision is there to run a mono shock front end.

[RedScampi]

Funny you should post that. I was looking for Radicator stuff yesterday and stumbled across a guy named Razer who posted this picture in 2006 at Tamiya club. He had one Wildcat NIB and one runner but sold them to a collector in Japan. Check out the rear shocks...

[Coelacanth]

In some ways its looks like a clone of maybe the Tamiya hotshot. If you look at the front arms, it looks like the provision is there to run a mono shock front end.

That's exactly what I thought...it looks just like a Hotshot with 4 shocks...or is it 6?

[Mr. ED]

looks very much like a robbe cheyenne too, but that's 2WD and 'only' has 4 shocks

It does look much like a radicator body also, except with a little extra trim to pass the battery sideways

[airdreams1]

yep looks like a Tamiya hotshot knock off to me as well.

actualy has 6 shocks.... that seems a bit strange (must have mother-in-law straped on back.)

[klavy69]

Yep, recalled. And to top it off its one of those 'no info available' type things. No comments from any traxxas employees about it on the traxxas board. It was either before their time or very hush, hush. Rumor was that there were some quality control issues with it that didn't meet up to traxxas standards. Razer had the most info on the wildcat than most when it came to it but still had no real rock hard facts about what/why/when it was dropped.
Todd