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Hi all. As you know, I entered my camel yellow electric RC10DS Lamborghini Murcielago in this this months BOTM. There, I mentioned i had a nitro version of a DS Lamborghini in the works. Well here is the start of the build page. Im starting out, believe it or not, with a nitro RC10DS from Ireland i ...

So a little background first... I started racing Losi trucks way back in the beginning, the late 80's, first JRX-T's, then LXT's. I continued until the mid 90's, when I got sick of having to buy the latest gadgets every few months just to stay competitive. After that I was out of racing and the RC h...

Send any first Gen RC10 compatible parts to me, it will make room for future purchases.

This car won't be concours quality but it is in fairly nice condition. Early pics as received... LosiXX2orig.1.JPG LosiXX2orig.3.JPG The motor plate is probably the roughest part so I started there. LosiXX2.5.JPG LosiXX2.7.JPG Then onto sanding... Only the rear portion seems really bad so I am tryin...

Hello What do most guys here do to rusted metal parts? I have a rotary tool that I can use a wire brush with, but I’d like to know what to coat the bare metal with after it’s free of rust. What I have been doing for all my steel parts is a blackening process that works fairly well. You will need a h...

The top ad with the motor coming out of the page was designed by me. The page was created and hole carefully cut out and the motor inserted and shot. The Esprit series hands ad was brainstormed by me, and Mike Reedy liked the idea. He hired a pro illustrator to make the hands. The table top arrangem...

And after a little more body trimming




And with it's brother



Chuck

Yes, Trinity

More specifically they're Trinity Power Plus shocks.

There is a long story about me constantly begging a friend of mine to use or borrow his CB back when I was 14 or so, and him never doing it for the longest time. He never played with it, and it just sat there. Then a one point, he needed a favor from me, so I negotiated a deal and got his rig for th...

I always wanted a fiberglass 12L as a kid but no tracks in my area raced 1/12 scale. Fast forward about 25 years and I finally picked up a sealed 12LW graphite kit. I need a 64-pitch spur and to trim a body and it will be finished. - RCPS titanium steering kit - Novak 410-HPc, NER-3FM, NES-1A & ...

Proline basically re-issued the RCPS body from the late 80's-early 90's with some alterations. One of the more popular bodies of the day.

This was the first RC10GX (NIB) I ever saw auctioned off in Japan. It is the earliest version of the RC10-GX. The main difference between this and the US spec is the inclusion of Yokomo aluminum wheel adaptors for Yokomo 2.15 inch rear wheels, extra spring set, and Japanese advice manual. The manual...

Hi folks Long overdue update on this project (wow, 1.5+ years)... Long story short, the cosmetics took a huge time to crack and much more work than expected. The mechanics were the easy part in the end :mrgreen: And some life events came in between, which didn't help :lol: First, a huge thanks to Do...