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Rally Cars
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:46 am
by pituk
I just picked this up recently on Craiglist. I drove about a hour to pick it up and ended up spending another hour talking rc with the seller and tinkering around with the car before I went home. Its actually a Celica Gr.b with the Porsche body set ( best of both worlds in my humble opinion , Celica's upgrades with the Porsche body) with extra wheels , rally tires , manual and Magnum Jr. It was very well maintained , the only problem I could find was a quarter inch crack on the body's rear bumper and missing spoiler. All I did was wipe of the dust and tidy up the wiring. Its actually faster than I thought it would be , did some nice drifts in the parking lot.
Any rally fan's? Lets see some pics. Group shot with Hpi Rs4 Rally's.

Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:11 am
by SMOKE-DOG
Nice find, that's a classic. Tamiya should re-re these.
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:26 am
by j.d.roost
Nice score there!Body is in good shape.
I may have an extra rear wing for that. I'll take a look this weekend.
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:41 pm
by pituk
Sounds good , j.d.roost. Found a cool promo video , wonder if it survived that first jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE1MEdVEycQ
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:45 pm
by wts873
I have a RS4 rally I need to post up here

I have always loved those old tamiya, but they are always out of my price range

Nice find!!
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:08 pm
by mrlexan
pituk wrote:Its actually a Celica Gr.b with the Porsche body set ( best of both worlds in my humble opinion , Celica's upgrades with the Porsche body)
You sure? I has the Porsche front body mount and the Porsche wheels? Flip er over and see which the skid plate is, Celica or Porsche (they were different).
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:10 pm
by transamman908
Looks to be a Celica. It has the celica drive shaft(one without the dogbone style ends)
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:22 pm
by mrlexan
Good point, I didn't catch that in the image.
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:07 pm
by MOmo
I love the HPI Rs4 Racer. The Tamiya ones were ahead of their time. I Dig the Porsche.
I would love to get my hands on some of the older ones, namely the Celica Rally.
I have an RS4 Rally as well. i love that car, prolly the car i had the most fun with. Its got all the upgrades. Im thinking about digging it out to run at my local track again.
MOmo
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:25 pm
by j.d.roost
pituk
I found that spoiler. Pm me your address.
I'll ship it out to you.
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:36 pm
by vintage racer
There is a guy on ebay doing a lexan repro of the Celica.You can find him in the Ebay talk section under the JRX2 body post.
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 11:59 am
by plymouthgasser
i have one of the repop celica bodies from ebay.
looks great but you still need the tamiya rear deck lid
looks great on my m03
Re: Rally Cars
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:32 pm
by shodog
what a great find. If you plan to run it much, then you should invest in the aluminum suspension parts off of ebay. The front arms and and knuckles have plastic that is not UV stable. My new built shelf sitter even has a broken knuckle just merely from sitting.