sorry for digging up this oldy, but I got a Dolphin this week and yes: the rear drivetrain is binding terribly. The first gear sits a bit too close to the second and is ever so slightly out of round.old_rc_lover wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:54 pm I have cleaned up some pretty cheap RC cars in my time, but they all ran pretty smooth once you get them figured out. From what I have seen Aristo Craft made some pretty cool stuff in there time. Here is an ad for 3 Aristo Craft RC cars.
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It just struck me the car at the top of the above advertisement is an Academy model. Academy is Korean also and I started wondering if they were affiliated.