Vintage Electronics in a Modern Kit: What's going on here?

[HS-YZ250]

Browsing TLR's website to get ideas, I happened across this image, and was wondering what was going on with the very vintage electrics.

http://www.tlracing.com/ProdInfo/Files/TLR03022-chassis1.png

This was on TLR's page for the 22 5.0 Elite DC kit, due in September.

http://www.tlracing.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=TLR03022

Is this a new trend? Someone playing around with marketing materials? Or am I late to the party, having not paid much attention to kits made after 1995?

[juicedcoupe]

Might be that whoever built the car actually had taste.

[GoMachV]

And now Yokomo releases their rtr racer with a brush motor and speed control anyone know where to find a shorty pack with a Tamiya connector?

[Bottom Feeder]

It looks out of place but I dig it!

[HS-YZ250]

Might be that whoever built the car actually had taste.

Not gonna lie: the matched cells made me immediately jump to Trinity's website. Heh!

Was wondering if it was an oddly stacked 6 cell pack at first.

[HS-YZ250]

Ugh. And please excuse my spelling error in the thread title. Guess I got so excited I reverted to, I don't know, German pronunciations?

[Frankentruck]

"Wintage" made me think of Mr. Chekov in Star Trek.

[juicedcoupe]

And now Yokomo releases their rtr racer with a brush motor and speed control anyone know where to find a shorty pack with a tamiya connector?

Now I want one. It has the right look for a vintage car.

[Frankentruck]

It's the return of brushed motor power! TLR and Yokomo leading the charge!

[HS-YZ250]

Think it could be a Brian Kinwald tribute, with that body?

[HS-YZ250]

And there you go! From TLR's facebook page.

Wonder what Yokomo's inspiration was.

[RC10th]

It is a trend for some of us ..... Kidagain has done some great vintage looking modern electronics.


I even made some vintage packaging for this one, complete with capacitors and schottky diode....

[Lowgear]

Ugh. And please excuse my spelling error in the thread title. Guess I got so excited I reverted to, I don't know, German pronunciations?

I fixed it for ya.

[duckhead]

And now Yokomo releases their rtr racer with a brush motor and speed control anyone know where to find a shorty pack with a tamiya connector?

Yokomo and Tamiya should talk more...

Yokomo has a LiPo compatible ESC but only for brushed motors, where Tamiya has the TBLE-02 ESC that is in most of their re-re's which is brushed/sensored brushless compatible but no LiPo cutoff...

[juicedcoupe]

Tamiya has the TBLE-02 ESC that is in most of their re-re's which is brushed/sensored brushless compatible but no LiPo cutoff...

That is where the new TBLE-04S comes in, replacing the 02.