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During one of the last year vintage events, one guy looked at my cars and he was clearly impressed by the work on the Spirit FF... We had lot of discussions since as he was in one of the clubs I was going for running my cars... One day, he...

Building a survivor kit from 1994 - the Mugen Athlete 1/8 buggy. Purple was the theme, car and box! This was launched in the year with the Kyosho Turbo Inferno. This buggy has its unique design language, in my opinion. Some Mugen optional parts from...

Here goes the start of my Mugen Athlete build. I have already begun a Mugen Super Sport build thread which has sat idle for quite a while. It is waiting on parts to be anodized. I am hoping to finish both of them in the near decade.

This build...

By now, i was on a TRF project but it's to much complicate and i started something else. ;)

This project will be long... very long...

To be continued...

Jerome

Just wondering if anyone here has one of these? If so please post a few pictures. I still think this is one of the coolest looking RCs. I've never seen one in person though.

Well I finally got one at a reasonable price :D I think after the Yokomo 834b this was the car I dreamt off most as a kid , I've always loved cage cars but I never thought I'd ever find a Bulldog at a reasonable price .
This one is not fully...

Here goes a full rebuild of this pretty special Mugen Super Sport. It comes with these steel arms. I have never seen them before but I have read that the factory had built and tested with them.

I don't believe this buggy was ever run. It was...

Vintage Mugen car, not a 1/8 gas car but a 1/12 scale electric. That´s also what started Mugen company.
I think quite interestic car with monocoque chassis, spring front end and t-bar. Overall a mix of Phantom/Gemini/Schumacher lexan car, RC12i...

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I have started restoring a mugen bulldog I recently picked up mainly as I used to race one back in the 80's at St Ives show ground and hoping to make this one a runner for the next vintage meet in Castle hill.

Now I know its a Mugen Bulldog II...

With 3 Mugen Bulldog builds on the go I thought i'd try and post some pics and idea's to help anyone else that wants to make some simple yet effective mods to their car/s.
While I dont claim to have 'invented' any of these idea's as such I have...

Today Ill start on this old 4wds Bulldog.
Will do an fullcarbon version.
One in this forum have make an nice catbon chassis but Ill go one step more, will do the both chassis plates allso out of carbon.
Ill use 2mm thick carbon .
Jerzi

Old car refurbished again. :mrgreen:

BTW, I custom made the driver for that super narrow buggy cabin :lol: I will show that in another post.

I picked this up for $9.99 from a seller in France because I liked the unusual lines and kind of brutish look, I also think it would look great with a wing added...it was listed on eBay as a Frewer Mercury body. Does anybody know anything about this...

Hello All, Does anyone know what differences there were between the Mugen Bulldog and the Bulldog II. That is besides the obvious change from the roll cage to the lexan body?

Anatomy of a Mugen Bulldog airshock.

This was one of the reasons why I bought the Bulldog in 1985, never has an oil leak!!

Sadly, it does not really work too well except on road, bashing.....

I'm currently reviving my dad's bulldog but do not have instructions. I'm not r/c lingo savvy so bear with me. My issue is with the gear assembly that is directly driven by the electric motor. The assembly has threaded nuts on both sides that are...

Hey all, I'm new here on the forum.. but not R/C. I was big into it in the mid 80's/early 90's and now after 20 years have got the bug again you could say. I had no idea there was a vintage R/C following until recently, so I dusted off the old...

MUGEN Bulldog

Hi guys, ivegot a bulldog II that i need a front bumper for, anyone got one laying around? Ill post some pics soon, other than the missing bumper and dry rotted tires its in good shape!

Just picked this up at my LHS! For $50!! Not a scratch on it! Tires are still new

This Bulldog has been a real work in progress but I finaly have it where I am happy.
The diff's have been modded, a custom steering rack has been added, ball raced belt tensioners, universal drive shafts up front, Marui chrome dog bones in the rear,...

Mugen bulldog probably was one of the most sloppily made cars from Mugen. I got my Bulldog in 1985 with the hope that the AWDS would do magic, dead wrong!! However, I did see a heavily modified Bulldog in a shop in Hong Kong as an on-road buggy...

Picked this one up yesterday along with almost another full car in spares. Going rebuild this up totaly stock.

Hi Guys,

Just thought I would post up some pics of a project I finsished off last weekend. There is a bit of a story to this one - so please be patient!!

Way back in the 80's Michael Geddes (my now great mate), was national champion and a very,...

Most of you here have seen Thomas's (Bugle) B34 racer. This car realy is very well designed and built by Thomas and his machining skills are the best Ive seen anybody apply to the vintage R/C scene here in Australia.
Ive been good friends with...

Most of you who have owned a Mugen bulldog before may not disagree that the Mugen bulldog steering was a terrible design. I remember most people lock out the rear steering.

Anyone know how to meaningful modify the front steering so that it works...

I would really like to run my Bulldog this weekend at our vintage get together but I am missing a front drive shaft,does anyone know of one that would fit from a different car.I tried Ultima but it was too short.If worst comes to worst Ill lengthen...

I found the Mugen bulldog has terrible steering. :mrgreen:

The original 4wds was a terrible idea with tons of oversteer and the plastic was too sloppy and resulted in no accuracy even to run straight. That was my memory in 1985. Back then I locked...

Mugen bulldog's differentials are not known to be smooth. There was a design flaw. There was no pressure washer or any spring in the design, the only 'give' in the system was the long 3mm screw, which hardly give at all, which makes proper...

got a change to get one of these any idea what they could be worth, its new with unpainted body with box as shown 8)

Hi guys, here's some pics of a car I have been trying to find the time to work on. I picked up this Bulldog in a trade with an old racer who had it collecting dust in his shed for many years. Apparently it hasn't been run and aside from a section at...

I came across this, and with the low price it stands at, I kinda would like to use it in an electric conversion.
Can aybody identify which Mugen buggy I'm looking at and are parts still easy to get?
Edit: and wheels that fit!