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I just got this from Tree Hugger.

All i can say is WOW!!!!!!!

It's so clean with only minor scratches on the bottom of the chassis. Im still chasing a Gear cover and the little pesky L shape bracket of the roll cage. From the Motor plate to the Suspension tower pipe piece.

Apart from that its all there . Has the original box, instructions. Metal plaque 87 World champ, and a special world champ decal.

Oddly this has a front sway bar. NOT the Turbo style front bar . This connects to the top of the camber rod and runs back in the car over the servo and back to the other camber link. Never seen one like it and is written on the box and tells on the back pages of the manual to instal front bar if front is too twitchy.

I get the feeling it was a running change after the worlds ???? But the Turbo was out than too which mounted the bar by links on the arm itself around the front bulk head. ( Normal Style fit )

Any info guys?????????

A big thanks to Paul for the great deal & care of packing it all up inside another big box. Much appreciated...

Cheers

Very nice! I have a few Ultimas in pieces on my workbench trying to decide how to proceed. I've never seen that swaybar either but I'm sure someone will know of it. Great looking buggy!

Nice Car Mark......sway bar is standard for the original Ultima.

that is one super nice ultima mark, paul told me he was sending you something and wow see is a ripper. i need a full cage myself along with that l shaped motor bracket hard to find

how was boondal today?

They changed the sway bar design because they started using turn buckles instead of the plastic upper link. I remember building a Sideways for the hobbyshop and it also came with that swaybar.

Very nice car.

I love how new Ultima posts bring out all the Ultima fans.

*waves* I too have an ultima on my bench, just trying to decide what to do with it, does anybody have pictures of this L shaped bracket so i know what ya'll are talking about?

Triton wrote:...does anybody have pictures of this L shaped bracket so i know what ya'll are talking about?

I'm pretty sure we're talking about this little guy.

Looks great!

Dang, I gotta finish putting mine back together! I took it apart to clean it, and never got past 75% reassembled. I think I was looking for a front shock tower that lets me use the longer gold shocks instead of the stock red ones.

It's been a months since I've looked at it, but I am pretty sure mine was turnbuckleless and came with a sway bar. Sounds about right!

i think i bought a lot of treehuggers almost mint stuf , he must a sold you one of his better ones from his collection ?:@)
nice car . always nice to get one that needs hardly any resto'

Thanks Guys.

Gaza i herd you have some nice YZ10's coming your way too.

Was there @ Boondal but you were a no show!!!!

Have to catch up soon hey.

There is something about a Cage Ultima isn't there. They look so cool on the track too.

bdrmbully wrote:i think i bought a lot of treehuggers almost mint stuf , he must a sold you one of his better ones from his collection ?:@)
nice car . always nice to get one that needs hardly any resto'

Gotta love reading between the lines!

well funny as i restored both ultimas and the only difference was price brmbully paid $79 bidding on it at ebay no box but nice car (good pics). just though i would fill those lines in ,LOL and if i remember brm got a green ultima and a orange one . off me two .with out issue .!!
so talking of lines Mark did you ever work out what my total was for the 25 year old body's as it would be nice to check out you can even credit link the your value back 8 months

Paul

Mad Racer wrote:Thanks Guys.

Gaza i herd you have some nice YZ10's coming your way too.

Was there @ Boondal but you were a no show!!!!

Have to catch up soon hey.

There is something about a Cage Ultima isn't there. They look so cool on the track too.

yes mark got a few more just can't get enough

yeah had to wait around on saturday, people were coming to pick up stuff i sold + got a new lady friend

yes the first ultima is a special buggy mark, keen to see your's for sure, can ya bring the box and all the other bit's for show and tell see ya soon brother for sure.

treehugger wrote:so talking of lines Mark did you ever work out what my total was for the 25 year old body's as it would be nice to check out you can even credit link the your value back 8 months

I'm not sure I understand the question, Paul...the idea we both agreed to was for you to send me an Optima undertray and hard final pinion gear and we could put this behind us. 8 months ago we both seemed to agree this was a fair trade value for those bodies. I'm assuming you no longer have those items, or you would've sent them ages ago. We don't have to discuss this in someone's Ultima thread, but you don't reply to any of my PM's.