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1987 Frog Time Capsule

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Picked this up today from a guy who found it in a storage unit. The car was in decent shape. Broken front bumper and some scratches on the bottom, but otherwise pretty good. What I liked was this appears to be a true 80's time capsule. The original box, with the "As Seen on TV" sticker ( I wonder if they meant the Punky Brewster Episode?), included all the original tamiya catalogs,order forms, Frog manual, unused decals, spare parts, pinion and spur gear assortment and the Pro-Tech charger in it's original box with the instructions spare cords and decals. Any of these items alone wouldn't make me look twice, but all together, I thought it was a cool find. It even had the sales receipt with the name of the original buyer from the hobby shop it was purchased from in Northern California. When I was first sent pics of the car to see if I was interested in buying it, I was thinking it would be a cool base from which to build a custom Suburu Brat (an idea I've been pondering for a while), but I think this one deserves to stay as a Frog. I've got some time to think about it since there are about a half dozen projects waiting in line before I get to this one.
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Re: 1987 Frog Time Capsule

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Model Rectifier Corp (MRC) used to import Tamiya to the USA. MRC had a TV commercial with a really spoiled kid refusing all sorts of gifts that were not an MRC/Tamiya model.

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