Rick Hohwart LEGEND Replica car WC 1989 Australia

[prp]

Hi, every body I continue my collection of replica car use on World Champ.
This is the instant replica car of RICK HOHWART from the WC in Australia in 1989.
It's the prototype of the LAZER ZX but his name at this race was "LEGEND".

This is the pic from the World :

The article from French Magazine:

And my replica :

[prp]

The suite :

The upper deck is not the right, I need one in 2 parts with the same carbon look,
the 2 shock towers are hand made from pics details, the motor plate is hand made too,
in 1 piece and a alloy ring motor spacer.
The Tekin 700 need to be rewired.
The Associated shock are 1.32 on rear and 0.71 on front.
I don't know exactly if Rick use the original Front ZX ball cup or like on the last pic ?

I send send more pics has soon...

[badattitude]

Very Nice for sure.

I wonder why he used Associated Shocks instead of Kyosho's?

[scr8p]

rick signed up on here a month or so ago. i don't think he posted anything yet, though.....

[RETRO R/C]

Hot Hot Hot

Man - that thing would still circulate well today.

CHeers

Darryn

[Rick Hohwart]

My Kyosho 4wd cars were some of the best off-road cars I ever had. I was third at this WC and to this date it is my best Worlds finish. I wish I could be of more help in terms of the build. I have no recollection of the AE shocks. I was an AE driver at the time using the RC10. Unfortunately at this race I did not have access to any special parts but still finished in the top half of the B-main. I do think I ran "special" Yokomo tires, but no car parts. But the fact I was driving AE is probably why I used the AE shocks.

Interestingly, Losi had prototype X-pattern tires for this race. Unhappy with AE's domination of 2wd, the gladly allowed me to use these tires in the 4wd class to improve my chances against the AE drivers and their Yokomo 4wd cars. Losi had no 4wd at this time. Their drivers used AYK or Kyohso and most did not make the main. So I would have run x-pattern tires at least on the rear although I am 99% sure I would have run them (rears) on the front. I don't think I used them in qualifying, only in the mains. This tire setup became pretty common in the early '90s (especially at RCH Raceway).

My Mom has told me that she has been going through things that were stored away like magazines and other photos from as far back as the '80s. I may even have some VHS tapes of races from back in the day. I know I had one of A main at 1986 ROAR 1/12 Nats when I won modified. If anything of interest comes up I will post it and if there is anything that will help with your build I will let you know.

If you have any other questions please let me know!

[scr8p]

welcome to the forum, rick.

[adam lancia]

And the list of legendary RC guys here grows again. Welcome to the site Rick, thanks for joining us!

The lazzer looks great prp, awesome detail stuff. Just a heads up, I think I saw those shock towers or ones very similar on Ebay a while back. Might be worth keeping an eye out just in case. I'll do the same

[Lonestar]

Wow Rick is in da house - awesome! Welcome Rick

PRP - cool stuff, nice job! If you built the shock towers from the plans that were released in Buggy Mag in the "Readers' mail" section, well, I drew them with my limited teenager engineering skills I never got the 1-yr free subscription, though

TTYL
Paul

[prp]

These shocks towers are not the same, hand made for the MID ...

[Mr. ED]

ouch PRP, you spent so much attention in making everything correct in the replica, but then you spell the mans name wrong in the subject


just teasing you. I like your choice of projects; a little of the beaten paths; thumbs up.

[prp]

Thanks a lot , I love make replica , find the right parts and some time the smallest part of the car is the most expensive ,
I make my best to make the good replica, and the help from the driver are welcome...

Rick, can you tell me if you have always the car ?
The motor from the world champs was a 13x3, prototype or rick's motor ?
Maybe have you again better pics from the car ?

Thanks in advance...

[m_vice]

Another sweet ride prp great work on the replica. Welcome to the board Rick. I was a big fan back then when you drove for AE. I am sure anything you can share will be very welcome bye a lot of our members.

[Lonestar]

These shocks towers are not the same, hand made for the MID ...

ha - so you didn't use my plans then... shame. I guess no one ever did, as I didn't build them myself either as I had no tooling to do so

Sweeeeeet ride...

Paul

[kenooze]

May this can help ?