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TIL Pro-Line's first stab at progressive shocks happened back in 1984:

Just a guess but the interviewer calls him Bob and he's wearing a Novak shirt....

https://youtu.be/M57Jss11EPg?si=RISQy6VIIBFFOLs7&t=765

Neat...but would've been cooler with Holiday Buggy style rears.

Flip the chassis plate?

Or you could ditch the DD and use a combo of gears and sprocket on a jack shaft. Either engine sprocket to spur sprocket to pinion gear to spur gear on wheel/axle....or the more common engine pinion to spur gear to pinion sprocket to spur sprocket on wheel/axle.

They're all Hyperdrives except for the 1/12 which is an early CRC Carpet Knife.

I think the model of the two Hyperdrive cars was the 700 E.A.S.E. but that's mostly going by a picture from RCScrewz.com. :lol: The 700 and the SSE Pro 2 used that rear pod but the Pro 2 looked to have a fixed battery tray. Posts from Hobbytalk date the car from 2003 or 2004. Here's a couple of pics...

Again, I don't know the full details on the relationship between CRC and Speedmerchant but by all indications they started as one company/partnership but then split off. Here's another ad from '96 that groups CRC and Speedmerchant together under the CRC company name. crcsm.jpg Early CRC header cards...

MIP trailing arms and a set of Andy's arms.

CC Pred Lynx 2 with AE front end.

Deja Vu: https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?p=546001#p546001

You showed me yours so I'll show ya mine... edreedy.jpg It's a single wind and 16 is written on all 3 sides of the arm. Like you, I had thought a silver dot would've been something in the low 20s but that was based on what the silver dot meant in the later Ultra Series motors. Also I wouldn't have p...

Your 6510 header card was restapled. The older Edinger motors typically did not have a lead or cap(s) soldered. Motor plug should most likely be white since the black plug started with the Ultra wet mag Caddy and was soldered on most if not all of them . Hard to say if a silver dot and that motor b...

treystoys wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:44 pm Phin do you know a roundabout date on your posted sheet?

1985-86.

How do the magnets feel on yours? Guessing they are just weaker from age or being stored next to who knows what for its whole life. It feels weaker than the Ultra Series, and other post '87 Yoke, motors I have, but just as strong as the pre '87 Yoke motor I have. Which should be the case since the ...

TRX-1-3 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 5:51 pm Hard to tell, definitively (for me at least), but it looks like a Trackmaster belt drive conversion.

Close...it's a Track Master X-Caliber direct drive trans.