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Radio Shack Rc car

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Found this mint radio shack car..racing Porshe from the 70's..anybody know anything about them?
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Re: Radio Shack Rc car

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Does the car require 4 AA cells and 5 C cells? Or just 5 C cells?

I bet if you look underneath the car, you'll see something about a company named Daishin.

Diashin marketed a whole range of cars in the US in the early 1980s under the name Pro-cision. They were very
scale-looking cars but really no more than plastic toys - later marketed through RadioShack (not certain about this).
The only real race car was a very cool Corvair Monza GT which was built like a (for the time) conventional 6-cell 1/12
scale racing chassis with a lexan body. They're quite rare and sometimes pop up on eBay.

This 935 car you have came in 3 different trim colors, one of which was the famous white Martini livery. The other two, one blue and
the other red (yours) were sort of made up livery versions. If memory serves, they were advertised as 1/12th scale. They had a
box and wheel Tx, featured one rear-wheel drive (no dif) and proportional steering. I think they also had reverse.

They weren't fast and, being made of styrene, were susceptible to breakage but they were fun and scale-like toys. Good
trainers for the uninitiated and great driveway race cars.

If you take the car apart you'll find the radio & esc wired into the same circuit board. I have one of these but I have no idea how to fix it. I thought about gutting it and putting in some more modern running gear but decided it wasn't worth the time.

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