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Went to see a guy regarding a XXX Cr. It was nice, so I bought it. 20250403_191336.jpg However...I sort of got two more cars... 20250403_191406.jpg And a lot of spares and wheels. 20250403_191259.jpg Wasn't cheap, but so what? :D That's a hell of a grab. Losi stuff isn't cheap...but it's great on t...

I've been hunting the 5054 front bodies now for almost a year, bought a lot with two sets (and they were wrecked, road rash, trashed threads and not cheap) so I hit my dad up to look for some of our old losi truck stuff for 1.2 threaded rears (we had 3 XXX-T MF and one MF2 back in the day, well...he...

Picked up a Yokomo. It's a YZ10 body shell, but I have no idea if its a YZ10 or an 870, or if there's a difference. It has a 1 way bearing for the front belt pulley if that makes a difference.
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went through the JRX-Pro that I'll be using for Roostpalooza. There were a few things that were janky that I didn't realize, and one of the rear hinge pins was sheared. We'll see how it goes.

Getting closer now. Got the spindles changed to buggy length. Also swapped the steering ballstud to the underside of the carbon steering rack.

All black titanium turnbuckles with RPM ends. Very thankful for JC Racing. They have made it so running and racing these vintage cars is so much easier.

Finally...got it wrapped up the way I wanted

Inspiration for the thread title.

Here is my xxt graphite plus runner that I got super clean especially for the price I got it and def will be trying to keep it as clean as possible

Worlds prototype XX.
Reedy Race non-prototype from a few months previous to Worlds (for context).

Nice! This is coming along! Really nice work!

Retro rc wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 9:45 pm

Charlie don't surf wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 5:40 am Horizon Hobby still makes the shock cartridge sets at $4.99 but you can rebuild the ones you have unless the hex or threads are trashed.

Where can you get these from new?

Horizon Hobby!