just bought my first 2 rc10 gold pans
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:15 am
It's funny as I rememebr my brothers friend having a really hot rc10 back in 87 or so, but when I had my first chance to get a real rc car when I was 9 or so I chose the tamiya king cab, cool car, until the friggan chassis broke lol.
Anyhow, second rc car I bought was a rc10t, fun truck.
Lately I had been wanting to get a rc10 gold pan car and make it looking proper. I managed to score 2 of them for a great price the other day. One needed a little omre work than the other. Luckily I even got a rc10 box and original 1985ish instruction manual. Both cars are what I believe is A pans. They have the triangle on the back. One is a lighter gold, the other is a darker gold, but from what i have read, they are both still original early versions. They have the 6 gear diffs.
One came with a interesting front spoiler on it. I will get some pictures up as soon as I find my memory card for the camera.
I ended up taking he dirty one apart and have cleaned all the parts, and am in the process of putting it back together. Along the way I have already found a few things that weren't right, or were already missing when I bought it. The trans was missing 1 bushing for the thrust washer, front fiberglass arm had a stubby ball joint that didn't have a nut on it, and i'm sure a few more things I havent found out yet.
The ligher colored chassis is actually quite clean, and I wont even bother pulling it apart. It has some god awful ugly modern day rear wheels that im gonna pull off and chuck in the garbage. I jsut need to install electronics into it.
I'm thinking I may install my old tekin rebel into one and a novak racer into the other. I have 2 stock cans, but I want to try and find some quality old brushed motors, and have a buddy at the lhs put them on his lathe and install new brushes. I'll run one stock and 1 modified.
I think I may actually run these cars at some local tracks for fun. They have some scratches on the lower pan so they are no collector cars, but I figure it will be fun to go try them out on the track.
I do want to find an original unpainted body and try to do the paintjob on the box though
Anyhow I will post some pictures up tomorrow I hope.
Anyhow, second rc car I bought was a rc10t, fun truck.
Lately I had been wanting to get a rc10 gold pan car and make it looking proper. I managed to score 2 of them for a great price the other day. One needed a little omre work than the other. Luckily I even got a rc10 box and original 1985ish instruction manual. Both cars are what I believe is A pans. They have the triangle on the back. One is a lighter gold, the other is a darker gold, but from what i have read, they are both still original early versions. They have the 6 gear diffs.
One came with a interesting front spoiler on it. I will get some pictures up as soon as I find my memory card for the camera.
I ended up taking he dirty one apart and have cleaned all the parts, and am in the process of putting it back together. Along the way I have already found a few things that weren't right, or were already missing when I bought it. The trans was missing 1 bushing for the thrust washer, front fiberglass arm had a stubby ball joint that didn't have a nut on it, and i'm sure a few more things I havent found out yet.
The ligher colored chassis is actually quite clean, and I wont even bother pulling it apart. It has some god awful ugly modern day rear wheels that im gonna pull off and chuck in the garbage. I jsut need to install electronics into it.
I'm thinking I may install my old tekin rebel into one and a novak racer into the other. I have 2 stock cans, but I want to try and find some quality old brushed motors, and have a buddy at the lhs put them on his lathe and install new brushes. I'll run one stock and 1 modified.
I think I may actually run these cars at some local tracks for fun. They have some scratches on the lower pan so they are no collector cars, but I figure it will be fun to go try them out on the track.
I do want to find an original unpainted body and try to do the paintjob on the box though
Anyhow I will post some pictures up tomorrow I hope.
