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I am restoring an electric Panda buggy and am looking for a couple parts. Any of you guys own one of these cars?

panda's are cool. i never had one though.
i know there's some guys on tamiya club that have some.

Cool but very weak front end. I do have an add on tamiya club too.

If any of the Panda TC or SC truck parts fit I have a few bagged if you have part numbers?

I need the shock tower for this one.

Willy I have one of those new built. Rather toylike but certainly different!

Thats awsome! I never planned on restoring this car but My dad got it for me many years ago and I lost him in july so been wanting to bring it back to it origional condition.

I don't recall seeing too many Pandas back in the late eighties/early 90's, they were pretty rare around here.

They made a Danny Thompson S-10 stadium truck (that actually looked like a stadium truck) years ago. I loved the body on that one.

If I'm not mistaken, they used the same chassis design on the buggy & the Dale Earnhart Monte-Carlo.

The chassis was pretty toyish, but the tires on the truck & stock car were pretty scale.

The only thing Panda I've got is a set of tires from the Monte that fit perfect on my Cox VW Baja & a couple shocks.

The A arms and tower stink on this car.Broke many parts. This thing will never see dirt again.All I need is that elusive tower.I put some losi shocks on the rear,fits and looks good.Still need to fit something for the fronts. If I didnt hit anything i had alot of fun with this buggy.Put a ton of screws in the rear tires from the inside and had a blast in the winters.

When i got mine it was NIB but missing the shock tower too. I found it on ebay though for cheap. Keep looking, it's out there!

I have a Danny Thompson and my friend had a matching Micky Thompson, much rarer still, I have had 2 Dannys only ever seen one Micky, and they did a 1/8 Testarossa on the same chassis, I have aNIB one in storage.

RedScampi wrote:When i got mine it was NIB but missing the shock tower too. I found it on ebay though for cheap. Keep looking, it's out there!

Thought you were about to say...Got one for ya Dave!!!! Thats the one I need. From what i have learned online, alot of the panda units use the same front tower.

ebay germany allways seems to have a couple listed as Graupner Pinto.
The cyclone is basically the same but with a nicer body.. and who doesn't want a nicer body

sent you a reply Dave on ClodTalk.com. I got what you need but used. Looks like your missing the red chassis cover too. Not sure if that came on the buggies.

how rare are these? ive been after one for years :/ im guessing they never came out in japan