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Very nice! I love the colour scheme. Makes me want to drink a Mountain Dew. (and I don't even like Mountain Dew)

Hey Tim... Exactly what color is that Raider of yours? I didn't mention it before, but the one I had as my first REAL RC car, I (well my dad) painted with pactra candy purple!!!

It turned out really nice!

I'm digging that color scheme, vintage AE!

losiXXXman wrote:Hey Tim... Exactly what color is that Raider of yours? I didn't mention it before, but the one I had as my first REAL RC car, I (well my dad) painted with pactra candy purple!!!

I'm not sure the exact colour, but it is definitely a dark shade of blue/purple. It's backed with silver, that's all I know for sure.

The raider was my first also. I still have the front tires and the optional wheels I bought back then. I just picked up a Raider off ebay a couple months ago for $10. It was listed as a radio shack car.

I can't wait to get the car restored back to what mine looked like BITD.

Really love that one there Vintage AE. Looks really sweet

dude i got a hole raider minus shocks n tires i can donate you. just let me know next time your racing again

bdrmbully wrote:dude i got a hole raider minus shocks n tires i can donate you. just let me know next time your racing again

Nice! I should be at Motor City for their first official race day. (Jan 8, I think) I'd be happy to throw in some loot for the parts.

Strange thing, with Raiders.... they are supposedly much better than their Tamiya counterpart (the Hornet / Grasshopper), and yet, they never ever seem to have any value... have had a couple listed for a while now, for what I consider to be a cheap price.... and yet, no takers. Just finished another one today, with new body and full rebuild.... they have about as much value as a broken Falcon chassis.

Shame, really.... I think they could make a really nice (if basic) vintage racer..... nothing to adjust, nothing to go wrong!

Oh well....


Alex

Well... I said on the first page that I wouldn't mind owning one and here it is nearly 5 months later and I now own a Raider Pro.

I actually ended up winning two of them from the same eBay seller. Anyway, they came today and it really surprised me how beautiful the body is. Its now taken a spot as one of my favorites.

I had a hard time choosing which pictures I liked the best so choose your favorite. The intake vent on the left side is to cool the motor if you wanted which I thought was neat.

The buggy itself is pretty cool, and I feel they're under appreciated as well. It might be because they're sort of a middle child if you will. They're somewhere between entry level and race buggies. I suppose if thats the case then the same could be said for the Outrage.

Always liked the Raider. Turbo Raider even better. There was something about the mid engine layout that appealed to me. The Octi-Grab's are sweet on there, will look even sweeter if you letter them. I gotta thing for old Pro-line tires too.

I have a few raiders too what I want to know is where to get tires for them at is there another model/brand of buggy that uses the same size tires that I can sill find ?

I don't know all the tires that fit but what you want to look for are 1.9 fronts and 1.6 rears.

Ok thanks I will look for those sizes.

I had to track some down for a set of Raider wheels that I bought for my Turbo Scorpion. Seller 'crunchy550' on eBay has sets of Proline tyres that work - he even states what diameter the tryre is for in his listing. Seller 'teamcrp'has some spiked CRP fronts that will work too.

Out of interest, my Raider rims were hard/brittle and cracked quickly. I suspect that they had been dyed (golden yellow) and the dye attached the plastic - my suspicion was based on 1. the colour was really uniform, 2. the plastic inside was white, 3. the colour came away when gluing the tyres and 4. I can only find green and white ones in photos/box art.

Has anyone else had this problem? Are the white/green Raider rims the same material as the other vintage Kyosho rims (Optima, Ultima etc)?