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Looking for help here. Something I have been trying to get to the bottom of.
Long story short, as a kid many many years ago, I remember a magazine ad of an RC10 or TQ10 Sidewinder. I want to say I remember a full color whole page ad. It obviously left an impression on me back then, and I always wanted to have that car/paint job.
Now I know I am not giving you guys much to go off of, but I am hoping it jogs the memory of someone that remembers this as I do. I truly wish I still had my magazine collection from back then to reference, but sadly they are long gone.
I found the attached rear/side shot of the car I found online, but it is not the full on top and front picture that was so awesome. The top and front of the body was the sidewinder rattlesnake, body color was yellow. It was truly a work of art.
Any help guys?

A no longer active member here "flipwils11" I believe had a body with that paint job on it.
You can try to contact him.

Thanks, I shot him an email, fingers crossed.

Do you know what magazine and approximate year this ad was in? I have a nearly complete RCCA 1986-96 collection and haven’t found it yet.. I have seen the Sidewinder body listed in the 1990 & 1991 Buyers Guides, but no ads with that custom snake graphic.. I’m trying to help you bro! Ha

I believe this site has the links to RCCA scans on line as well. I remember going through them for hours.

romulus22 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:32 pm https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=13306

Edit: I just read the post...... no ads!!

I’m getting bad at this site. Didn’t mean to quote meant to edit.....

Those scans are nice... better than nothing! ..but the omission of the ads was a bad decision.. they have just as much information as the articles! There’s no substitute for the physical, hard print copy in your hands!!

I have them laid out a little better on my google drive, link in my sig. Same source tho, the removal of ads was done by RCCA on purpose.

Yeah, I'm sure rcca wasn't going to advertise for companies no longer around or didnt pay them for advertising again.

Maybe if you search flipwils build threads you'll find what you're looking for. Might get you a little closer on a date to look through the hard copies for. I remember him talking about this car here and maybe even about it getting featured in a magazine...but my memory isnt what it used to be

Todd

A little more info to go by. I joined the first time here in 2006 I believe and there was some issue that a bunch of people had to rejoin in 2008 so it had to have been after that when Adam had put that car on here...

It's his gold unneccessary metal build from 2010. The body painter even chimed in on page 3 or 4. No pics left from then but some more info to do some looking

Was this snake bodied car in a build of the month contest? I thought it might have been. I'mma go look.

Yup. Klavy found the same dead pic links I did. Even the link to the picture of the poster that flip used for inspiration is dead. Is it possible to find it on that site that saves everything? Sorry about my ignorance but isn't there an archive time machine system that saves the whole internet? I can't remember the name.

Have a good laugh at those last couple sentences.

I swear there's a site like that.

Google does it. They cache the pages they visit. It used to be super easy to load the cached page from google search results, but now, for some reason I often don’t see the option.

TRX-1-3 wrote:Sorry about my ignorance but isn't there an archive time machine system that saves the whole internet? I can't remember the name.

I tried the wayback machine and the links were still dead.

The way back machine is awesome, but it has its limitations, and is unable to copy and reconstruct the database tables used in dynamic webpages. Basically not much help with forums.
Google’s spiders can access all kinds of things but still unable to rebuild entire databases.