Nice car. I personally think there are too many colors on it. I'd paint the nose plate and motor mount in a semi gloss paint, it'd match the rest of the black. I know you already took the time to strip those pieces too, but I just like the clean look of few colors.
yellowdatsun wrote:Nice car. I personally think there are too many colors on it. I'd paint the nose plate and motor mount in a semi gloss paint, it'd match the rest of the black. I know you already took the time to strip those pieces too, but I just like the clean look of few colors.
If I ever do a masami replica, I am totally using that advice! I'll just paint the body solid green and tell people it looked too busy with all of those colors! LMFAO
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do you have any screws holding the motor plate to the chassis? it looks like the trans/motor plate is only held in place by the top of the bulkhead, 2 screws. I think that plate should have some shortie 8-32 screws holding it to the chassis.
mk-Zero wrote:that motor plate is pretty rare, it doesn't need to be painted in my opinion. It's how the car looked back in the day, too many colors or not...
Love the way this car looks, exactly as it came off the track in 1984/1985 - just with the dirt cleaned off. Dont change a thing, this time capsule needs to stay exactly intact.
--Joey --
Vintage A&L and Factory Works
Old School Racer & Vintage RC Car nut
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Thanks Dave. It was fun to restore it back to the way it looked sooooo long ago. It sits proudly on my shelf now. Although I do have one more thing to do to it. I bought a really nice Joel "Magic" Johnson 1987 World Championship Trinity motor, which is what I ran it way back when, that I need to wire up and install. After that it will truly be finished. Too many colors and all, lol.
The other thing, if I ever get around to it, is swapping the blue hardware for gold. Not sure what I was thinking with the blue, lol.
BTW, the cool thing about that MIP motor plate, is what a good job they did of matching the gold anodized color to the (early) cars of the same era. The nose plate I have on the car is obviously a pretty early one, being the lighter gold anodizing, and the MIP motor plate is an exact match.
Hot Trick light gold/champagne (wide nose plates, steering & this motor plate that I remember) did match the early AE stuff nearly perfect. Great to see you stripped the paint off to show off the anodized beauty below.
--Joey --
Vintage A&L and Factory Works
Old School Racer & Vintage RC Car nut
JKRacingRC.com
The funny thing is, the Hot Trick steering I have on this car is raw aluminum, no ano. I don't know that I've ever seen another plane set like that before, only red ones. They made them in gold too?
Here are a few products ads from old magazines. The Touch rear trailing arms, Fusion Chassis and Pro-track. I have seen other ads for Pro-track nerf bars. Never heard of the other two.
Well this is my DS. I bought the conversion kit when it first came out and just love running it. I did the wheel/tire conversion so I could mess up easier to find tires as my original set of tires was too soft and the back up set is showing wear as...
As some of you may have picked up from another tread on the board: I' ve recently made a design for 3d printed arms for the YZ10 works 91-92 (and 93?)
While waiting for the protoypes I'm getting started on some designs for the Ultima too.
If you...
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Thanks Doug. I will be posting up more pics when the new parts arrive. Hopefully I get them in time for the big vintage race the first weekend of March.
Due my severe procrastination problem :roll: , we have a Pinewood Derby Race this w/end, and just started painting YESTERDAY :shock: !!!
Its a First for both of us, since we didnt have one here when I was a Scout. They gave us a Kit a while ago,...
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in the spirit of the pinewood derby...............
it looks like stan and his dad are gonna be building one tonight on south park. :mrgreen:
Hi all, I appreciate I'm late to the party but I have a Sand Viper on the way as a fun build during Christmas. It looks okay-ish from the box but it seems like there's very limited Hop-Ups available these days to even address the most common of...
All - I will soon be embarking upon my NIB Optima build and would like to know what are considered the most worthwhile or best or rarest hop-ups for this car. Anyone have any suggestions (preferably with pics if possible)?
Many thanks.
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What I wanna know: How did these get passed quality control? I've never run across a set that worked properly.