A few years back i was blessed whilst trawling through ebays vintage section when I came across a MINT condition FAV. At $250usd I was stoked to finaly have a flawless example.
Unfortunately I needed some money in a hurry a while back and it was sold off and ive regreted it ever since. Then the other day an r/c shop owner told me he had an old FAV and after agreeing on a price i walked out with this....thing. The paint scheme was shocking as can be seen by the pics but after stripping the car down and hitting all the parts with oven cleaner i was shocked to find a very nice car underneath. Alll the paint is now gone and i will start the rebuild shortly. here's how i found it-
Thats cool. Where are the pictures of the stripped down car?
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I started a new Tamiya project. I've started with a Holiday Buggy. My intent is to narrow the front and rear, to use Fast Attack wheels and tires, and to paint the Holiday Buggy in an Army vehicle theme.
I narrowed the rear end using Wild Willy...
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I think you can make it look even better by trimming those huge fenders.
Here's a custom project I've been working on using a B2 short chassis roller as a base. It involved removing the center portion of the Tamiya Fast Attack Vehicle chassis and narrowing the B2 chassis, and mating them together in two locations. This...
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Great Job! I really like it! Please put some chassis pics up!
Well I really want to build a Knight Beach Buggy like SHO's but I had 1/2 of the money saved and the wife said she needed it for bill's. isnt that the way it always happends :lol: but cant complain I have the best wife in the World. Since I dont...
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well themore I look at this car the less I like the color. I bought this as just a shell to test out a few paint colors on. but found the rest of the parts so cheap I couldnt resist putting it together. i think its coming back apart and getting...
I've been piecing this together the last couple of months. Just picking up parts from the splitters on eBay. Didn't want to drop all the cash in one fell swoop.... Anyway, I always wanted one of these once I became aware of them because they predate...
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I'm fairly new to this forum and I have two original FAVs (one for myself) and two 2011 RTR kits for my kids. I did aluminum upgrades on every part I could and installed Tamiya's oil damper kit. I replaced the motor and ESC with a Tamiya brushless...
Has anyone tried these on the jellybean wheels...The original one came out in 1984 and as i sit here looking at an ad of the re release they look like they might actually work...I went on Tamiyas website and they don't have them in stock...May be a...
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That is what i thought...Just gotta get on Tamiya to get some in stock...This kit was re released in 2011 and i can't find replacement tires anywhere...Or start a petition to Pro Line to make a retro series of tires...
