My First RC10. Early Cadillac.
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:38 pm
I finally gave in...
My First RC was a Blackfoot I got for my 12th birthday in 1988..I had to wait another month until Christmas for the Futaba Magnum Jr set... Less then a year later It had just about every bulletproof part I could find. Full Thorp diff/axles, practically the CRP catalog... and put the Futaba MC ESC in it.. I had to sell the entire setup for 300 bucks in early 90 when I had to pay for a Trombone (rental) that I wrapped around the other T-bone player ... Mom and Dad made me sell my toy to pay for it. (excellent work-parents) Then I got hooked in the onroad 12th scene a few months later.. I ran my 12L at the Ranch Pit Shop.... It was fast enough that It made quite a few laps on the 1/8 track (with a lot of laughs)
My brother was into the RC10... Prob why I resisted it. I am still waiting to post pictures of his car. Its a time capsule of hopups. He put a graphite AE chassis and bought the stealth trans for it.. alloy wheels and a Reedy Gold star... he stopped driving it when the motor slowed down. (we didnt know about turing them back then...) We drilled ONE hole in the front to install a long screw for the neighborhood's first stadium truck bodied RC10. On top of my bookshelf is his genuine Associated Baja body.. ( The Toyota one ) That someday I will get painted or send off to MrLexan for a backfill and reproductions...
So...
My coworker bought a 6016 RC10 that spent its life as an onroad car... unfortunately the correct RC10 jellybeans are gone..but it has onroad wheels and tires. The orignal six gear trans was never rebuilt..still has the double sided tape. Super clean...the bottom is an 8.5/10. It still has the wiper speed control. the original owner carefully drilled the 2 hole in each side for the CRP nerf bars (onroad car) Everything else is in place. The orignal box is near mint, and all manuals are still in the box.
He bought it because the auction included a really cool "channelled" Caddy body that he wanted for his Tamiya cars... He didnt know what an RC10 even was until I told him...
I matched what he paid for the RC10 and took it off his hands. (minus the body)
I will post pictures really soon...
My first RC10.
My First RC was a Blackfoot I got for my 12th birthday in 1988..I had to wait another month until Christmas for the Futaba Magnum Jr set... Less then a year later It had just about every bulletproof part I could find. Full Thorp diff/axles, practically the CRP catalog... and put the Futaba MC ESC in it.. I had to sell the entire setup for 300 bucks in early 90 when I had to pay for a Trombone (rental) that I wrapped around the other T-bone player ... Mom and Dad made me sell my toy to pay for it. (excellent work-parents) Then I got hooked in the onroad 12th scene a few months later.. I ran my 12L at the Ranch Pit Shop.... It was fast enough that It made quite a few laps on the 1/8 track (with a lot of laughs)
My brother was into the RC10... Prob why I resisted it. I am still waiting to post pictures of his car. Its a time capsule of hopups. He put a graphite AE chassis and bought the stealth trans for it.. alloy wheels and a Reedy Gold star... he stopped driving it when the motor slowed down. (we didnt know about turing them back then...) We drilled ONE hole in the front to install a long screw for the neighborhood's first stadium truck bodied RC10. On top of my bookshelf is his genuine Associated Baja body.. ( The Toyota one ) That someday I will get painted or send off to MrLexan for a backfill and reproductions...
So...
My coworker bought a 6016 RC10 that spent its life as an onroad car... unfortunately the correct RC10 jellybeans are gone..but it has onroad wheels and tires. The orignal six gear trans was never rebuilt..still has the double sided tape. Super clean...the bottom is an 8.5/10. It still has the wiper speed control. the original owner carefully drilled the 2 hole in each side for the CRP nerf bars (onroad car) Everything else is in place. The orignal box is near mint, and all manuals are still in the box.
He bought it because the auction included a really cool "channelled" Caddy body that he wanted for his Tamiya cars... He didnt know what an RC10 even was until I told him...
I matched what he paid for the RC10 and took it off his hands. (minus the body)
I will post pictures really soon...
My first RC10.