The Nichimo Luminous - a little unusual car

[BloodClod]

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Cool Vintage Acoms radio included!


Shell off...


Motor placement...


Steering servo + speed control installed *on* speed-control servo...


Suspension with shock absorbers (calling these shock absorbers is a stretch... they are more like energy-rebound units)


Cool rear-placement of switch with resistors neatly tucked underneath!


Love this motto - was it original?


Huge casing inside which the limited slip center diff resides!


The body shell is actually growing on me - I'm starting to like it!

[Coelacanth]

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The body shell is actually growing on me - I'm starting to like it!

LOL If it was growing on me, I'd have the doctor cut it off! It sure is an odd-looking car, gotta love that motor placement.

[tim.sanderson]

Thanks for the pics!
It took me a minute to wrap my head around what I was looking at here:

Steering servo + speed control installed *on* speed-control servo...

I thought the steering servo was under the crank/servo-saver thingie, and that the actual steering servo was the throttle servo, and the steering was connected to the throttle for some reason. (I'm confused simply typeing that.)

Dare I say that body may even be more outter-space looking than the Kyosho Salute!
It looks like a cross between the Salute, and an X-wing fighter.

[Lowgear]

Having a thing for symmetry I really like the motor placement as well.

[AYKBOBCAT]

I use to have a luminous... I bought it used back in the day and I hated it right from the start. The middle diff was loosening all the time. Eneded up gluing it. I sold it long ago but I still have the original box and I think even the body here... It's funny how so many companies made bodies looking like space ships then...

[BloodClod]

lol... really good to hear some reviews about how this car actually ran!

I'm not sure if I'll run this one given that this is a new build... even less enthusiastic now given your "glowing" review.

But this Nichimo has really opened my eyes to the more obscure cars of the era outside of the Tamiyas and Kyoshos...

What an awesome era it was.