frustrated on trying to find info

[slim_chance]

I know the Kyosho Tracker is one of the variants of the Ultima platform but it seems like it has been erased from kyosho history. Search as I may I can't find the one thing I want to know. When did the Tracker first hit the stores. I know it was never a race model but it was a part of Kyosho history. I tried wiki google and even on here and zilch. Its almost like Kyosho is ashamed of it. So does anyone know? I know it was available in 95 because that's when I bought my first one.

[markbt73]

I don't know for sure, but I stopped getting Tower Hobbies catalogs around 1990, and I'm pretty sure it was in there by then. If memory serves, they did a Hi-Rider Vette II on the same platform around the same time.

Kyosho released a zillion models over the years, and they don't seem to share the same sense of their own history that, say, Tamiya does. I doubt it's that they're ashamed of the Tracker, more like they've forgotten it.

[slim_chance]

I had forgotten about the Hi-rider vette. There was one sitting on the shelf right next to my first tracker when I basically did a coin flip. I actually had a toy grade smaller knock off of the vette a few years before that. It was one of those go forward and turn in reverse toys. Looked just like the box art car

[RichieRich]

The Kyosho Tracker appears in the '94 Tower catalog but not the '93. So my guess is that it was available starting somewhere in 1993.

[Lowgear]

I wouldn't say Kyosho was ashamed of it at all as they went so far as to come out with the Tracker 2 and Nitro Tracker afterwards.

[slim_chance]

Sorry didn't mean they where litteraly ashamed of it. It just seemed that it became a ghost. Thanks guys for giving me the answer I was looking for. I don't know why I was obssesed with it.

[romulus22]

This is another Kyosho I want to pick up someday. My brother had one when they were pretty new. Was the best curb jumping truck Ive ever seen

[highwayracer]

Didn't the tracker come out the same time as the outrage and the outrage ST? I thought the only difference was the size of the tire they used on the Tracker...more blackfoot like.

[romulus22]

Didn't want to start a new thread so ill ask in here.

Can anyone confirm that the Kyosho Tracker shares the same body shell as the Kyosho USA-1?

The body on the one I bought is really warped on the bottom but a reference picture of the Tracker

[GoMachV]

the USA1 had a unique part number and had a cutout or indent for the blower assembly. DA-34 is the part number

[romulus22]

Here's the reason I ask.

Saw this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-82-Body-Kyosho-USA-1-USA1-Tracker-/400508494757?pt=US_Radio_Control_Control_Line&hash=item5d402aa3a5

Planned on getting this instead of a ludicrous $90 body

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151062480209?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

This usa-1 doesn't have a cut out in the hood

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Nitro-Kyosho-USA-1-Great-condition-/181173877207?pt=Radio_Control_Vehicles&hash=item2a2ecdf9d7

[GoMachV]

Thats a nitro crusher- the intake was bolted to the body instead of the electric style where it comes thru the body. The nitro crusher body is a BS-82

[slim_chance]

From what I understand. The only difference between the usa-1 body and the tracker is the hood. Other than that it is completely interchangeable

[purpletimbo]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-KYOSHO-TRACKER-2-R-C-Electric-1-10-MONSTER-TRUCK-Kit-Rare-NEW-USA-1-/190855349534?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item2c6fdd851e&nma=true&si=1nQyiMKQTdtVsU3F3WTY3jfbhQQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Unsold but good pics