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No, the small sticker one is a trimmed down part of one of the bodyshell decals they also sold.

I have one on my Demon 2DH speedo also.

Few more parts going on to the mock-up build now, and some subtle trimming and stickering for the Cheetah Dogfighter bodyshell. The rear bar and shocks sit within the bodyshell which is cool, although part of me does think i could dramatically lower it by having them stick through the shell. Undecid...

I have quite a few Demon adverts stored on disc here. The 1982 ones do not list any motors, only speed controllers and the like. By early 84 water dipped motors are advertised, then by April the Yokomo modifieds appear in the listing. ELIMINATOR.... i have two ads where they are mentioned, the first...

These MMS cars were quite a thing over in the UK, and having come across a few now, and having seen them in period UK racing mags being used by top drivers such as Jason Varley I always keep an eye out for them. A couple of months ago an online RC friend of mine messaged me saying he had a very chop...

Thanks to several other members of the RC community this little nugget is winging its way to me at the moment. It looks to be the same undertray style used by Umberto Pernice in Romsey in 1987, and to me appears to be the same shape as the Coyote bodyshell. Whether that doubles over to the Pro10 she...

It was only 19Euro too!

I have spoken with Mr.Haskins at Penguin and he will be doing the honours....

What's weird is when i was just starting out everybody at my local club had British heatshrink-era ESC's, mainly Demon Kings and ProKings, Nosrams and the like. I hated the look of them and bought a Futaba 112B due to the neat looking placcy case. I then went through a few Novak units before settlin...

That said, i still find this to be pretty cool.

That is a cool speedo indeed, because it´s a very early Tekin. Not the 411 or the ones you find at the next corner. The heatsink is not Tekin. Which manufacturer? Victor made the round shape but other than that I don´t know. Yes, I have some round Victor ones on my Victor ESC's, but these red ones ...

I have quite a number of Reedy modifieds many of which are from my own racing days rather than having been collected more recently. Just reading the previous posts I can confirm that my yellow label Reedy Ultra was actually a Yellow Dot. Whilst not specified as an off-road motor I ran it on short, t...

This conversion was advertised in very early 1990 in the UK RC mags, and it turns out the alloy chassis was provided by Racecraft (located just down the road from WASP). This is the only WASP lower chassis I have seen apart from in the old black and white mag photo. The drive train is also the full ...

Don't worry, it is in a safe place!!!

Here is a bit of a Reedy line up. There is an early red and a green label in there too.... with 83 Euro's stickers on them.

I raced a lot in the standard class in the UK - a very very competitive class back then, and to qualify for that you had to have a 27turn sealed can motor, bushes rather than ball-races and which was at or below the set price bracket. When starting out this was 12pounds and eventually went up to 15p...

The front tower on my WASP 870c which i just posted in the Yokomo forum is a Composite Craft example.... kind of a matt black graphite outer finish with a lighter material sandwich. The ones on my UK Lightweight Racer thread car are the exact same material (from D&D Graphite.... so before the Co...

All i know is that the 40pound hand-wound motors which were available off the shelf at your local model shop were built by the motor builders (or their helpers as i know certain guys had other folks working for them) but these motors were a step below the hand-picked team motors which were saved for...