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Few more shots now it is together.

TAG Coyote 4WD loosely based around the Umberto Pernice team car with too many hand-made custom parts to list, but includes a carbon-fibre central drive shaft, suspension geometry revisions, chassis made from carbon-fibre sourced from a dismantled Caterham F1 car, original Gisom (Italian) wheels wit...

This is for the original black Dresser. Original DRESSER 001.jpg Original DRESSER 002.jpg Original DRESSER 003.jpg Original DRESSER 004.jpg I have been asked about the wiring on these before too, so here is mine opened up for reference. 24726678_499660850419990_132597103_n.jpg 24726526_4996608604199...

Great post! Thanks for sharing the pictures, making it very clear to the uninitiated what you are doing.

Are you also zapping the can magnets and flagging to re-centre them?

I am going through the same rebuild process with a fair few of my old brushed motors.

Thanks for the comments. I have been really lucky to retain almost all of my original cars, and the one I did sell (my CAT XL) has now very fortunately returned to me from the same friend I sold it to in the early 90's. This build is just missing a few vital pieces of hardware, although it had falte...

Yes, congratulations HCP22. That's an absolute beauty!

Ok, so finally getting around to this... and have decided to go back to the earlier, more original spec a bit like i had it in the days before i sold it on. I am going to retain the full front and rear MMS set up, and add a few period accessories which i have managed to muster. My car had the earlie...

Wiring still needs a tidy, and the wing side panels fell off mid-race and i only had black servo tape available on the day.... but at least you get an idea for the set-up. Now it has had a run, and freed off a little i am totally blown away by how efficient the drivetrain is. Virtually zero resistan...

I won't post too many pictures until it has safely landed on my doormat, but this thing is completely bonkers. I am also really pleased to say that it is the 4wd version.... something that i had never seen or heard about previously.

Quick teaser:-

Well having just checked it turns out that small alloy case behind the motor actually houses a pair of meshed 12tooth pinion gears. Clever way of making the drivetrain relatively easy to refresh i suppose. There is a third pinion gear mating to the diff itself, and the whole set-up spins very very f...

Probably correct about that. Main aim will be not to crash it!! I can't imagine they had any oversights with the drivetrain, or any other part of the build. They were known for being super technical and clinical. They had produced a pair of 2wd cars at around the same time, and that had a belt drive...

Yes, it is certainly something a little special. I have never seen anything quite like it before. The small details on it are quite amazing. I have added these last few pictures on the RC10talk Fb page, so i will add them here too. I have stripped and rebuilt the entire car now, and am currently jus...

Another bit of detective work finally paid off this afternoon. I had remembered seeing an article on the Brimod team which had three yellow and black 'Team Brimod' Optima Mids lined up... I read it back in the day but had never forgotten it. One of my friends had his old mag stash to hand so i messa...

Just to round this post off (well, before I put any more electics in), here is a quick summary of the TOP Missile 15Triple motor restoration I completed to go with this car. It seemed only fitting to fit an original TOP motor, but they are few and far between so finding a good one was virtually impo...

OK, so i just got off the phone to Tim Lucas, the ex-Brimod test driver. It turns out that this was the actual car that he drove, covertly, in around '87 - '88. He told me that the Brimod guys entered it in secret into the Stafford round of the Radio Race Car Off-Road 4WD National Series (I am looki...