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Hi,

After MRX and Santana, the next MRC car I have to present is the Sand Master, french alternative to Kyosho Maxxum FF



I still only have to find a few parts, and it will be complete

CyberFox.

Nobody's interested in this car ?

I've just finished the body, so I present the car completely renewed:

I love it! Very nice

thank you

moi, I'm interested

This one was on my hit list for many years, then after I jumped off the French Vintage RC Scene bandwagon, I knew I had zero chance of landing one.

This is and still is one of my all-time favourites - like the Maxxum (which, fortunately, I have two of to make up for its absence ). Yours is really, really nice!

A+
Paul

really ? So you like FWD

Mine is box-art, you recognize it I imagine, red color was hard to prepare but result is right I think

Never heard of that one, but it's a very cool, interesting car, you've done a great job restoring it.

I can't see the pics here at work. But I have a Maxxum FF, it's one of my favorites.

Im also very interested in the French MRC cars, but I have no chance of getting one. I have never seen one for sale. Are they rare? Where they sold world wide?

I don't know if they were sold outside of France

You can sometimes see one on leboncoin.fr (french sell/trade specialized site).

MRX and Santana are less rare than Santana Pro and Sand Master, these two cars are very hard to find.

cyberfox wrote:I don't know if they were sold outside of France

You can sometimes see one on leboncoin.fr (french sell/trade specialized site).

MRX and Santana are less rare than Santana Pro and Sand Master, these two cars are very hard to find.

I've never seen them sold outside of France - maybe in french-speaking areas in western europe such as Wallonie (BE) and Suisse Romande.

They were MADE by MRC - not Model Rectifier Corporation, but Model Racing Car, a French company, as the name doesn't suggest. They were designed, and manufactured (metals and plastics!) in France. And most of these french brands had US-sounding names, the most famous of them being Yankee, of course (European & World Champions in 8th buggy in 1986). These were the days when the French and italians were leading the way in gas racing, on- or off-road. Then the japanese starting getting their stuff together with the Burns, and the rest is history, Europeans companies bellied up.

Either way, when the French entered 10th electric, it was way too late already, and Japanese and American cars were mopping the floor with the French cars.

More reading about the RWD version of the Sandmaster (Which I couldn't find...) here:

http://www.retromodelisme.com/article_page/1962/santana-4x2-mrc.html




(et si tu vends ton sandmaster, ton prix sera le mien...)

Lonestar wrote:(et si tu vends ton sandmaster, ton prix sera le mien...)

Ca, ce n'est pas pour tout de suite

[mode je réfléchis tout seul on]
hum... je lui dis que j'en ai un autre NIB, ou pas ?
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cyberfox wrote:

Lonestar wrote:(et si tu vends ton sandmaster, ton prix sera le mien...)

Ca, ce n'est pas pour tout de suite

[mode je réfléchis tout seul on]
hum... je lui dis que j'en ai un autre NIB, ou pas ?
[off]

Je prefere pas savoir

Mrc was distributed in belgium. Flanders as well as wallonia.
i loved their 4wd, it looked like a lovechild of a Cat and Optima underneath the lexan shell.