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I was having a similar discussion with some friends. Some clubs in Australia have a 540 class. The class was meant to be a bit of fun and lower cost. But always a few that don’t get the spirit of the class and spen $$$ on the latest and greatest cars and hop ups. So my thought was 540 class should b...

Take a look at the one above with the Carbon TRX-B kit. It is not all that different than what we think of as classic race buggies. The stuff I see guys do to old RC10's JRX's etc to modernize them and then call it vintage is no different. You can adapt most of one to an old TRX3 chassis if you use ...

If you're a little bonkers like I am then there's plenty of performance to be had from the 2wd Traxxas platform. You can check out my thread on my mid motor project if you want. Looking at your location there's even chance you might have seen it in person - I've had this car out a few times at vario...

Thanks all. I think RCveteran pretty much nailed my mindset on this. I'm not a fan of modern Traxxas and how they market nor their lawsuit-happy ways, but the Bandit/Stampede/Rustler came from a time before all that. They just kept making them. Their durability, plentiful cheap parts and old school...

The whole lawsuit thing comes up, whatever, it's a cruel world these are all big international conglomerate companies (with exception of Traxxas, ironically as the sole American owned survivor) at this point with lawyers doing what they do. It's not like Gil Losi and Roger Curtis are sitting in a sh...

Bandit is really not all the different than TRX1 and slightly longer than TRX3. Here's some quick photos I just took. There are so many different length Traxxas arms across platforms and hex wheels are easy on these, you could bring a bandit down a bit with little effort. trx1 bandit compare 1.jpg t...

Now go build a race winning Bandit and report back

Having mostly Tamiya and Associated 2wd buggies in my runner stable, I am used to the 10.5-ish wheelbase common in gold tubs and Madcaps. I picked up a Traxxas Bandit awhile back and will probably get into modding it this winter. The first thing that struck me was how long its wheelbase was, like t...

That's a great question. Why did 1/10-scale cars get significantly larger? Lord knows. They lengthened wheelbases, pushing the wheels farther apart, while widening the track accordingly, pushing the wheels outward as much as possible. Today's 1/10-scale car is way bigger than decades ago. RC cars (b...

The racing rules on size probably led to the size 1/10 cars became but originally they were scale models , all the original Tamiya offerings were anyway so the length and width were just copied not dictated by a set of racing rules.

Having mostly Tamiya and Associated 2wd buggies in my runner stable, I am used to the 10.5-ish wheelbase common in gold tubs and Madcaps. I picked up a Traxxas Bandit awhile back and will probably get into modding it this winter. The first thing that struck me was how long its wheelbase was, like t...

My brain says shorter arm cars would require a shorter chassis and longer arm cars would require a longer chassis to get the weight transfer balance right.

Car in the second pic is not the same as the first. Other than the different part colors, and the different wheels, the second car is a graphite chassis and car 1 and 3 both have an alloy chassis.

Curtis Husting painted a lot of those bodies and were included in some kits. There were more than a few out there back then. Rod has a blue one in the 25 year thread.

And that body you want to replicate will have the same layout as the blue body, just need to change the colors to match your likes.