Vintage RC

Some old stuff I have collected, or still have.
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Associated RC10 (the original)

I go this off eBay, but long before the prices went berserk on old RC10's. It was MIB and was shrink wrapped, but I had to open it and build it!

Associated RC10 Graphite

These are pics of the very first RC car I ever bought, way back in 1989. I scanned these pics. The original pictures were taken in roughly 1991. To see the very first RC10 Graphite ever made, click here.

Associated RC10 Team Car

I found this kit at a hobby shop. It was in new condition, and in a perfect box, but parts had been robbed from it. I got it cheap and put era correct hop up parts in lieu of the original parts. I later outfitted it with era correct electronics.

Associated RC10 Worlds Car

Another hobby shop find. It was MIB. I didn't get it terribly cheap, however. About what you would have paid for it when it was new. Obviously, I built this one as well. And put some electronics in it since my old electronics stuff is just sitting around anyways. I almost never sell or throw anything away.
The funky scanned pic is the Worlds Car I used to race back when this car was in production. My painting skills hadn't got much better over the years, as you can see.

Losi JRXT-T

I have two of these. One I got off eBay from a guy who had built it way back in the day and then never ran it. He had painted/stickered the body. It was in really good shape, but all the screws were rusty and it was assembled incorrectly in some minor ways. So, I went through it and made it just about perfect. The second kit was given to me by a good friend who spied one at a hobby shop. It was MIB, so I decided to actually run the first one on a track, just to see how it ran. You can find the video of it here on my video page.

Losi XX

The top two pics are from the first XX I bought, when they first came out. Terrible scanned pics again. This kit was pretty revolutionary, although I could never get it to work for me on the track. I later somehow ended up with enough parts to make one without a kit. That one is shown in the bottom pic.

Losi XXT

I think I've had three of these over the years. The right two pics are from long ago, and were scanned. You can see the dates on many of these pics. The left two show an XXT I still have. It was assembled from parts. I have so many parts. It is kinda scary.

MRC Desert Thunder

I had originally bought this off eBay, from Bob Stormer by chance (owner of Stormer Hobbies). Only, when I bought it, it was the truck version (Thunder King?). It was used, but I had always been curious about these huge things, so I bought it to run. And run it I did. I put my Aveox brushless in it and beat the crap out of it. Later, I emailed Bob to see if he had parts for it. He happened to have the buggy version, but the box was open and he was not sure what was missing. So I bought it from him for a great price and rebuilt it as the buggy you see here. They were pretty much identical. Tires, body and body mounts are all the differed. It hasn't been run since the rebuild. The top left pic show how big they are. Huge!

Kyosho Triumph

I raced one of these way back. I got it new, but second hand from a guy who seemed to enjoy building kits and not ever playing with them. Strange, but I bought a bunch of stuff from him, so he was a good friend :)
The differentials sucks bad. So I put a stealth tranny in it and it did pretty good. I eventually tired of having to mail order parts for it so I gave up on it. Later I found a MIB kit on eBay from a guy in Australia. I built it and it is a shelf queen.

Associated RC10 GT

I still have the original RC10 GT that I bought back in the mid 90's. Well, some of it anyways. It has been upgraded so many times, I am not sure what is left. I actually bought another one at some point, so I can't be too certain. All these pics suck bad, but I had them, so here they are.
The left pics show the truck in street trim. A damn fine street basher, I might add. The left pics are after the very, very nice A Main kit. It was given to me, so I don;t know much more than the name, "A Main".