Okay, I haven’t released too many projects lately, but… there is a good reason!
As we all love old RC racers, and a benchmark of vintage racing was the Detroit Worlds 91’… we all know who won it, for 2WD.
This has been confirmed al lotta times, with the stunning Masami RC10 replica’s.
As some of you might know, i’m a Schumacher Cougar guy.
I like ‘m, and i have my reasons for it.
So, i started this project about 2 years ago, with my friend Philippe… we talked about the “ultimate vintage Cougar”…. And we ended up to focus on this one, Kevin Moore his prototype from the Detroit worlds!
He finished 4th, after qualifying 7th.
I started to make a study, so i knew what i was up against, and this was horribly confusing to get all info straight… which we concluded it was impossible to build this car
So, i (and Philippe) started to look out for the right Parts, and got this one going
I am still thinking how to present this build, but… i am trying to do posts, once in a time… it’s just too much for one post, done.
So here we go, the start!!
First of all, you see the 4 pictures i needed to work with, and that set the goal.
Problem 1, lotta prototype parts, which are impossible to find… i thought.
Then we started to ask around in our networks, and hunt down EVERY advert which was related to Schumacher in general…
Then i made contact with Guy, which was there at the Worlds in person. From that point we had a good start, because I gathered a lotta info from him, and some sweeeet parts!!
The collecting had begun, but only started the actual build two months ago.
At this point, when i had like 95% of the parts together, i contacted Kevin himself, and asked him if wanted to collaborate in the finalization of the project… i showed him the parts we found, and Kevin was immediately 100% connected!
During the actual build, he pointed out all the missing details, and slowly we together made this one REAL!!
Is this a re-build, or a replica, or as-close-as-the-real-car build?! I dunno… i did not picked the right words for it…
Thanks, and enjoy for now!