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naushad wrote:Actually, it doesn't look that bad tbh.

I suspect you won't need much to fix it up.

You have hot laps wheels there. They are not so common.

Good luck.

Pargustore does alloy wheels.

tamiyadan wrote:ah you took the plunge on that one.

since you will be using the delta parts the only stuff to worry about is the plastics.

the gear case and the rear arms are kind of hard to find since they took beatings.
the gear case is usually broken on the bottom motor mount bolt.

the rear arms can be damaged or cracked.

in the end it depends what you are trying to restore. many times the parts can be broken but not effect the ability of the car to run.

the zip tie on the back holding the rear guard could mean nothing, could mean the guard is broken, or the gear case is broken.
functionally that part is basically a rear bumper. the second job is it holds the zip ties that help keep the rear trailing arms from spreading under load or shock

getting a new Guard is very easy you can go stock or aftermarket. the issue is if the gear case is cracked. if the zip tie is just there to stiffen it up then your fine otherwise you need a new gear case and they go for like 60-150$ a pop. usually that new gear case is used as NOS parts never come up.so you want to ask the seller if anything is cracked on it. i got burned on a gear case replacement because i failed to find out if the lower motor mount was cracked or not. looked correct in the photos but once you put a bolt in it the plastic was obviously split. Functionally it would not stop the car from working, but from a collectors standpoint it wasn't good.

most people that installed the delta stiffeners for the rear trailing arms, then modified the rear arms to make them lighter and would cut off or drill holes in the original parts.
again doesn't hurt the car from running but looks bad on the display shelf.

other then the gear box and rear arms being expensive and rarer to find everything else you can get, now the shocks are another story and you have options if you need to get replacements. the one you bought appears to have the original shocks.

tires are easy to get depending on how you want to play it. the hard to find expensive tires are the RPS 1.75" team losi branded tires that came with the RPS kits.

team losi either copied proline or ripped off proline for those tires. so you can get the same tire as the rps car from Proline they are the 1.75" champion proline tires and they are reproduced because of the Rc-10 re-release kit. so you can get tons of them cheap.

i'm running proline tires on my rps because team losi ripped them off from proline anyway.

otherwise you can fit any tire from 1.9-2.2 on the car using different yokomo rims and offsets for the rims.

RC10resto wrote:The battery tray looks ok?

tamiyadan wrote:yes one in the same..$553.00 on ebay BIN


The body is called the Space capsule . it is a rare body and nobody is currently producing it.
rumors were it was a japan only body.

last auction for one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-RARE-Yokomo-834-B-Space-Capsule-Body-/291643500180?hash=item43e74ea694:g:Ez8AAOSwbdpWbd4u