Widescale touring articles request!

[ralphee]

Request for anything on the subject, was pretty big back in the day in England, converted 4wd buggies, pretty spwaned the 190mm craze here, sad to say, although widescale bodies were fugly (Peugeot 405 lol) the chassis were a blast to drive, foam tyres, hot motors, bliss.
Itll mainly be in RRC mags, they ran a BRCA series back then, pretty sure the likes of Chris Grainger, Sam Barnard Pete Winton etc, were all the usual suspects?

bests.........lee

[CAT3K]

Here's a couple of articles for you. First one is early (1990) and the second is late (1996) just when the scale tourers were about to take over.

December 1990, Top qualifier magazine.





March 1996 Radio Race Car







Paul.

[NRG]

Wow them was the days right there. Mount a saloon shell and some sponges and good to go. I still have my rather cruedly hand painted escort turbo shell from when i was very young

[ralphee]

Wow, yeah, thats what i mean, i actually had the second mag you scanned, which im reading right now lol. Thanks Paul, your a star, man, that shaves years off me seeing this, i remember my Ttechi raced for a short time, had an international, bought the FTD conversion kit i think it was back then, really great/fragile/noisy car.......but insanely efficient.

lee

[CAT3K]

I found another one for you to have a read of, this ones even earlier (late 89)







Paul.

[Lonestar]

I found another one for you to have a read of, this ones even earlier (late 89)

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WOW killer pic here!!! Can you imagine the mass appeal to the unsuspecting crowds???

Thanks for sharing!

Paul

[ralphee]

Paul thats awesome, thank you. I recall Rallycross trying to come back in 200mm form some years later, didnt seem to last long though as the hobby was saturated with 190mm touring.
Think the main instigators were Tamiya and HPI......and Losi had a tinker too with an offroad Street Weapon?

lee

[DerbyDan]

This might be the very Predator that is mentioned completing a 'Pred' 1-2 in the RRC March 96 article....?





My mate picked it up over the weekend - we competed in the 24hr race up at Ardent Raceway & all of Des Chand's cars/bits were set-out on a table for sale, at the end of the meeting the old Predator (that i'd kept eyeing up) was still sitting there, when the chap who was selling this stuff said 'does anyone want this before I throw it in the bin' - my mate heard this & quickly saved it from its wheelie-bin fate.

Its mine if I want it but I think we are going to offer it to a chap in our club who may appreciate it more & perhaps have a few spares for it as up until recently he was running a predator DTM car?