Just picked this little beauty up at a local garage sale this morning. The guy who sold it to me said that it used to belong to his son and that it had not been used in many many years. You can see it still has bits of mud stuck to it from it's last run. Anyway I think that it's a Hot Trick conversion for a Hotshot correct me if I'm wrong..ahh I won't tell you guys what I paid for it ... don't want to embarrass anybody..
I don't think I will keep it...I don't have anything else even similar..but I will spend this afternoon cleaning it up and I will see how it comes out..
Nice find. That cleaned up nicely, looked like crap in the first pic. Hot Trick Stuff is really starting to grow on me. Didn't really like it back in the day.
Heres some pic's of the body..it has been over trimmed in some areas...I can't find any markings on it, but I think that since it's here in NZ that it might be a Frewer body... I seem to remember that Frewer made a long wheel base conversion for Optima Mids (very basic) that had a body that looked a lot like this... if you want to make a copy from it Mr Lexan let me know..
Pete
Heres Frewers web site http://www.frewerracing.com/ it's undergoing an update some some pages aren't active. I'm going to send them a picture of the body and follow it up with a phone call tomorrow..
I thought I had some photos of the long wheelbase mid..only found one and unfortunately it's from the back..I did find a picture of another Frewer body on a standard mid that I owned..
Ok I was right it is a Frewer body that was made for the Mardave Meteor..and Kevin Frewer said he can still make them..so I'm going to get him to pop me one....anybody else interested?
Is the Frewer the same what was offered by JG for the Optima Mid (one company offering another's just in the states)? I seem to remember it was. Frewer's stuff could always be IDed by the window net in the windows. I've got a JG Mid body and it is essentially the same as the OE mid body (looks pretty much identical), but was offered in two different wheelbases.
I am not here cause I am playing photographer and on my mountain bike. www.gojammedia.com
mrlexan wrote:Is the Frewer the same what was offered by JG for the Optima Mid (one company offering another's just in the states)? I seem to remember it was. Frewer's stuff could always be IDed by the window net in the windows. I've got a JG Mid body and it is essentially the same as the OE mid body (looks pretty much identical), but was offered in two different wheelbases.
Couldn't tell you that for certain..they did make a long wheel base mid conversion at one stage plus a standard mid body as well...I do know that they export bodies all over the World...tell you what I want one of your bodies so how about I send you one of these..sort of a trade..
I was thinking that maybe it would fit an RC10...judge for yourself..I think it looks wild..even wilder on the DS...if you were to fit a rear wing like that which was on the Mardave, you would have a pretty wild looking car..in fact I'm going to do just that..bare in mind that the original body was longer in the front and slightly longer in the back..this body has been hacked a fair bit..
Back in the days I had one Hot Trick car. My Tamiya Fox got a full Hot Trick conversion, resulting in a dramatic change of appearance, a debatable upgrade in driving characteristics - and confusion of threads in my screw box. Today I have several...
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The runner - made for vintage racing.
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Preliminary assembly to find the right shock set up. The relevant tracks require a ride height at +/- 20 mm. Ending up using 0.71 up front and 1.32 at the rear end.
Guys for nexy yr the Venom vintage festival has made a few changes to the Hot Shot class. All will be running the whizzy silver 540 motor :lol:
You have to run oval block tires (Hot Shot) . No Grip tires not Supper Grippers. :lol:
No modified...
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what really lets the Boomy/HS2 down is the front mono that is (i) not dimensioned properly (hence not enough droop) and (ii) not served by a proper swaybar mount (hence it rocks more than it absorbs bumps). Fit a dual (SS) shock setup to either,...
Oh man, this brings back memories. Had their thin fiberglass chassis and trailing arms on my RC10 way back when before coming to my senses and getting a Composite Craft graphite chassis and A&L trailing arms. :lol:
Ive recently purchased a pair of Tamiya old school uni's from dave but was wondering if there are any modern CVD's that are around for the above mentioned cars?
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I'm no expert on the HotShot by any means but I do know that RC Lohas are producing some cvds for the front. It might be worth checking with them to see whether they fit the standard HotShot as well as their red HotShot. See here:
This is my Vintage racer for an upcoming event in a couple of weeks, I don't think I could have picked a worse race car, lol. I only picked the Hotshot because it was cheap and I needed something to fill in a second class. I hate silver can racing...
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:lol: That's awesome, I'll definitely take them and add them to my 80's racer kit if you don't want them.
That's not a proper charge lead though is it? One of the wires should be a resistance wire.
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Hpi 5 star wheels. I cut down the fronts to run the narrow 4wd tires.
Found a nice traxxas bumper that fit with a bit of modding to the old bigwig bumper (yea I know another
non vintage part..It's just a bumper :) ). Picture 1033.jpg Picture...