The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread

[MadZero]

My MARKER CARS Chassis Pan car.
And Associated and RC250 club car.
I've personally owned the Marker since about 1972.
Bought it at Trost Hobby Shop in Chicago.
Bought it to Race the circuits but didn't work out as planned. Just raced some local area races.
Some years later I bought my Associated car. The Marker is just a rolling chassis now, stripped it down to a basic chassis. cause I was going to update it from scratch. Then the sport locally started to fizzle out. So started racing real cars instead and my poor Marker just sat in the closet for decades. Has a Steed Lola body which I started to strip to repaint and never finished.
My Associated car is about 95% complete running chassis. Didn't finish this one. Car engine OS MAX 21 Is brand new never fired.
Chassis never run. Approx. 50 years I've owned my Marker.

Sweet, very envious of your NIB engine too.

[romulus22]

Nothing special but very clean new built condition. Dynamic Sidewinder.

[Phin]

Not complete, but a lot cleaner than it was when I got it.

Also got a nice surprise when I cleaned the grime off the diff housing. Made it much easier to ID.

[Phin]

The shorter motor plate has the name Grasby scratched into it, which I assume is the name of the original owner/builder.

Spotted the name Jerry Grasby in a race report for the 1982 Florida 1/8 Winter Nats, and after a quick internet search I believe I found the gentleman responsible for all the neat custom work on the RC500 I picked up several months ago.

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/17832270/Gerald-R-Grasby

RIP.

[Phin]

Does anyone know if the RC200 ever came with RC300 wheels & radio plate as part of a rolling change?

[Phin]

Does anyone know if the RC200 ever came with RC300 wheels & radio plate as part of a rolling change?

Okay so I think I found the answer to this question, and the "rolling change" was actually the RC150.

When I did a basic internet search on RC150 info I found an estimated release date of 1975, and an assumption that the RC150 came out between the RC100 and RC200....but after doing a deep dive through old magazine scans the first mention of the RC150 I've been able to find is in the May '83 issue of Model Builder Magazine:

So the age order of AE's 1/8 pan cars seems to be RC1->RC2->RC100->RC200-RC300->RC300BD->RC150->RC250. To me the RC150 seems to have been a case of AE using up all their remainder RC200 parts.

[romulus22]

Anyone have an RC500 with this radio tray they could pull a few numbers for me?

Thanks

[RC10resto]

Sending PM

[trf_414_m2]

Hi everybody.

Thia is Cesar, from Spain, in the search of knowledge about vintage 1/8 on road tires. I got this set of rubber rain rear tires on a trade and I wanna ID them and search for a set of fronts.

As an useful tip for anyone, these arrived mounted on a set of green BMT rear wheels...

Any help will be appreciated.

(Please no PM as forum tells me I'm not allowed to read them)

[V12]

No signs at the sidewall?

[Puffdogg]

Been a while - have to keep this thread going
I will post shortly after a long Rc hiatus....