V12 - Thanks for sharing some of those facts... The original owner of "Team Checkpoint" was Bill Steube Sr. who created the brand during the 1/24th scale inline slot car racing days in L.A. around the late 1960's (slot car racing's "Golden Age"). Legend John Thorp who later on developed the Dirt Burners line was one of his close friends and slot car racing buddies. Mr. Bill Steube Sr. and his family (I believe his sons Billy and Mike Steube were also very involved in the business) later sold the company to "Big Jim" Greenemayer in the mid 1970's after slot cars racing's popularity started to decline.
I will agree with you, it is a lot harder to find vintage Checkpoint Motors with the Yokomo can (whcih is what I started with back in 83' or 84') than the Platinum series of motors which came later and were truly "Made in the U.S.A.".
I have 2 of the 'Big Jim' version of the Checkpoint motors. One has a couple runs on it, the other is brand new, never powered. Anyways, those used a very small brush, maybe a 1/4 the size of a 'regular' brush. Dies anyone know where to find them?
It's time to stand up to the bully. Support the companies that support the industry, not the ones that tear it down. Say no to Traxxas Factory Works website
Thanks GoMachV.
Although difficult to tell from a pic, they def look close. Hopefully the store is a reald brick and mortar type store in Vegas. The next time I'm out that way I'll make a stop. I'm not in any rush to run these excepting maybe astro or carpet tracks.
Its great to be a part of the forum now. I am currently racing my gold tub for fun I seem to have most of it dialed. My issue is the stock shocks what are you guys running for shocks/towers etc. I am running 2.2 wheels. Ill post up some pics soon
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Does anyone know the faskolor paint that matches the og rc10 body paint scheme?
Does any one know anything about this motor? I have no clue what turn it is or anything. I got it about 5 years ago in a box of odd and end stuff i won of ebay. All i know is with a HPI SC-15 esc it will flip a king blackfoot over on its lid lol....
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here: is some info about MTM too. So yours is quad, so it's one of the newest MTM's.
All other Revolutions, that I have seen does look like those: (see pic)
On modified motors, the can is always black and endbell is also different. I think that...
Hi, I’m looking for some info on my motor. It has the same coloring/sticker (bright pink) as the Trinity nuclear assault, but it has a plastic end bell - all the info I can find via Google shows an aluminum end bell for the nuclear assault. I saw a...
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Hi, I’m looking for some info on my motor. It has the same coloring/sticker (bright pink) as the Trinity nuclear assault, but it has a plastic end bell - all the info I can find via Google shows an aluminum end bell for the nuclear assault. I saw a...
Hi all,
I was digging through my old rc stuff from the 80/90's and came across an old Revtech Turbo Express. It's a green can with a gold Revtech sticker. Does anyone have any info on this motor?
Hi, I have a Losi Revolution Racing Motor. It has the black can with yellow and brownish red lettering.Bearings on both ends.There are 2 white lines or markings on the windings from the pinion side.Either the marker was too big and it should be one....
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It might help I You know is the motor double, triple or quintuple wind? Two marks on can might be a Revolution II 18x3 wind.
So my wife picked this car up for 15$ yesterday at a local auction, it came from an unpaid storage locker and no other RC parts or boxes
were found with it. It appears to have been run maybe a handful if times. There are no scratches that I can see...
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Your not going to get an estimate of value here. Its a rule about no such topics except in the BST section. Keeps the information forums cleaner.