Yes they did. You can see it on the bench there in the photos. The cutout is not normal however.scootmike wrote: Did Pro Line make a bumper specifically for the SRB?
Mike
This car had a scratch built chassis that I have not mentioned where I laid the gearbox forward with the motor on the front to get the weight lower. I ran one race with it and scrapped it. I hadn’t realized that loose dirt situations require a higher CG for the chassis to roll and plant weight for traction. Either way that’s the reason for that cutout in the mounting plate on the bumper as that attempt had a spine running down the center of the chassis to accommodate the dip of the front mounts on the MIP gearbox. Prior to the Proline unit being available we ran the ones that were formed from Kydex sheet. They were great but would make the frontend light as they moved too much air. When the Proline ones came out that’s what everyone ran.
I see now that they have them still available for everything except the SRB cars.
One more parts thought on this car. I found a Parma body listing on the site here that shows all the old bodys. They reference the Chenoweth that I have on his car as the “Chenoweth for Frog.” This was never a frog body but perhaps marketed that way in later years to keep selling them as the SRB cars were being replaced by the RC10. The Parma Chenoweth is just a modified version of the Funco that came on the Rough Rider.
Why did the RC10 take over so quickly you might ask. Price and parts availability. This car and the others like it were built from aftermarket and hand fabricated parts. After buying an expensive kit and running through a series of modifications, many of which were discarded over the years you have what you see here and that was well over a thousand bucks. Just consider that the Thorp Diff was $50 and I think I paid $75 for the MIP rearend kit at a local hobby store. I had less in my first RC10 and it ran almost as good out of the box before any development. It was durable and parts were mass produced. This allowed anyone to have a Real RC car that was capable of winning an event and durable.
It was a fun time and the cars were built to look like real racecars unlike the farm tractor cab forward space buggies of today.
