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Hi, Costing questions are generally frowned upon, but you have asked in a very educated and well thought out manner. :D Here are my views to try and answer your question. Yes it is generally better to buy a good donor car that to build from individual parts. Princing falls into several categories: A...

it's kind of been a double hump in the market and value/price. before the re-release of the classic and worlds car, things had peaked and were slowly declining and you could get hard to find parts once in a while for reasonable prices. so the hump/peak happened then. At that point, associated was st...

Some great comments above! The rule of thumb is the same as for 1:1 cars... unless it is sold at Pebble Beach, it's pretty much always better to have the previous owner bear the cost of the restoration than yourself :lol: If you want the absolute shelf queen, it's going to cost an arm and a leg - ne...

You just missed one on eBay about a month ago haven’t seen one since or before.

I just want to have a car to fix up that looks nicer than what I had as a kid and drive around for fun without hopefully incurring too many costs from breaking parts. I think I'm trying to decide between a gold pan car vs a later model with a plastic chassis. Metal pan seems more durable but vintag...

If you want a bulletproof runner then get something new that your hobby shop stocks spares. That way you don’t have to worry when you break it.

As for your RC10 just stock up on rear arm mounts, steering knuckles and uprights. Those are the items that usually get broken in the course of running.

I still go to sheldons but not as much as I used to. Not much RC10 stuff left really. NorCal is all about new stuff, no vintage. I like JJ customs which is great for crawler stuff

This is what I use, its what AE uses in their RTRs. It has decent speed, torque, and metal gears. There are faster servos and some have titanium gears but they cost $100 plus. Whatever route you go I suggest metal gears at a minimum. Search ebay for "Reedy 0712MG", there are sellers partin...