Someone should take on this Masami replica.
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Someone should take on this Masami replica.
Masami's 1989 Reedy Invitational car.
Highlights:
-Custom graphite chassis with 3 forward and 4 rear battery slots.
-MIP SP1 transmission
-Andy's suspension arms (3 white + 1 black )
-Yoke shocks in the rear Deltas laid down up front
-Custom shock towers and battery strap (rear tower looks like it's actually mounted to the back of the bulkhead )
Way beyond my level of commitment but too cool a project car to not see replicated.
Highlights:
-Custom graphite chassis with 3 forward and 4 rear battery slots.
-MIP SP1 transmission
-Andy's suspension arms (3 white + 1 black )
-Yoke shocks in the rear Deltas laid down up front
-Custom shock towers and battery strap (rear tower looks like it's actually mounted to the back of the bulkhead )
Way beyond my level of commitment but too cool a project car to not see replicated.
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
more pictures please
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
Interesting optima-like laydown front shocks. Wonder how it handled.
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
the front camber is quite huge
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
He came in 3rd.tiger1 wrote:wonder how it worked in 1989....
Here are the scans of the articles that the pics were pulled from (second is in French):
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=22021
http://www.retromodelisme.com/page_magazine/17566/auto-8-43-mar-1989-page-40.html
Unfortunately no pics of the body used on the car. I couldn't even spot it anywhere in those pics of Masami in his collection of cars.
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
Masami would have still finished on the podium with an RC10L. That guy can drive!
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Re: Someone should take on this Masami replica.
Found some more pics on The Hirosaka R/C Legends site: http://hirosaka.jp/story24.html
Looks like a different version of the car...chassis is narrower, all 4 arms are white, wheels and wings are changed, and it's got a Yoke under tray. The couple of body on pics don't show enough detail but it doesn't look like it's using Masami's typical paint scheme.
Looks like a different version of the car...chassis is narrower, all 4 arms are white, wheels and wings are changed, and it's got a Yoke under tray. The couple of body on pics don't show enough detail but it doesn't look like it's using Masami's typical paint scheme.
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