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Made some battery changes....put a 7 cell unit in and rebuilt the motor...it's had a rough life on the shelf!...when Thumbs came down last weekend it was slow...pulled motor, only cranking 19k rpm...cut the comm, new brushes, etc...30.5k rpm now at @3.75 amps 20241031_142519.jpg 20241031_142528.jpg

Not my picture (my wide screen couldn't go anywhere near getting it all in), but this is a picture from the first day of this weekend's Vintage Bash in Knox, Australia. Official count is 505 cars.... made it all the way around the track!

Day one out of the way.... two more days to go!

Sweet!!!
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Helluva’ box

The need for painting the body makes me pause my Yokomo project too I'd rather watch the progress of your build. I like it very much.

Indy

If it's real, it's proof of what I expected all along. The marketing team at AE are using the South Park manatees.

Visited a poor man's Dodge City today to eat at a restaurant the 'ol lady was interested in.

Hi Guys than Fan RC is running real good .. CA'd bell cranks N diff is smooth cracking bit of kit.. bit of mockery with AE stickers got an under tray fitted too from penguin .. " I think"

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:34 pm Visited a poor man's Dodge City today to eat at a restaurant the 'ol lady was interested in.

Your old lady is tall ! and old !

MarkyDents wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:08 pm I’ve got a pic saved of an Ultahive painted protech that’s was on the bay from years back that would be exceptionally perfect for such a piece, give me like 15 minutes to go back a few years in my pics to find it

Okay a couple 15 minutes later…

mikea96 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 1:43 pm My other mounts have some slop after I reamed them but I think I over reamed the left mount and it has way to much slop like way to much.

Just for a possible reference... I ream them with 9/64 lol.

I like my buggys like I like my women, fast and loose!

Found this purple unicorn the other day. Last piece of the puzzle, I now have all the original Speed Gem motors (like that's some sort of accomplishment). But hey, I loved these motors in the early '90s when I was a little sh!t.

I took a couple of pics while out getting my steps in today, on a trail along a kinda side area along the James River, just south of Richmond, Va. There are parts of the river here that used to be part of the original James River, but over time, more direct "gaps" were cut in to straighten...