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The outer parts do, but the inner parts are ribbed instead of "spikes". Very odd tires! I don't think they had a name but J can answer that as he has the header cards!

gomachv wrote:The outer parts do, but the inner parts are ribbed instead of "spikes". Very odd tires! I don't think they had a name but J can answer that as he has the header cards!

That I do! All of my R/C stuff is behind plastic sheeting right now though. I'm adding on a small storage/work bench area to the garage right now and everything is wrapped up to protect from drywall dust. I'll be able to get to them soon! But yes, Jeff #1 (there's about 20 Jeff's here, he's #1. I'm not sure what # Jeff I am) hooked me up with new sets of tires to "restore" this chain drive nightmare. I wanted matching fronts to go with the rears. ...and every time I would buy something from Jeff #1, he would send me more fronts..

*edit- the chain drive nightmare is one of the few cars that's not behind plastic sheets or in my office display cases right now. Some of the AJ's rear tires have a center that is all spikes without the side to side bars! There's at least 3 variations of this tire- front, and 2 different rears. ...Anyways, back to the scratch built madness! Who's got more??? I love scratch building as much as I love restored rare vintage cars!

Buy-one-get-many-free lol

Go a few, depends on whether you include home made parts on a car such as my home made Hotshot chassis and shock mounts

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=56434&sid=297

Or all the home made fibreglass parts on my on road converted Lazer

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=6568&sid=297

Or whole cars built using some r/c parts such as my old 1/12th...

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8719&sid=297

...and my pan car

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=5069&sid=297

Or something built completely from scratch entirely in polycarbonate, including the gearbox cases.



It's an engineering prototype I built as a design proposal for Tyco, more details here:
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=57383&sid=297

Here are some pics of stuff I have done.

Full Yokomo 870C chassis



Clodbuster Chassis

i scratch built this 2.2 clod based crawler around 2005.

I decided to raid my parts bin one evening with the challenge of building a complete RTR using only “Scrap” (damaged, tweaked, old stock) parts I had. I ended up with this creation:

Gold pan rc10 chassis
Black pan nose piece
RPM stampede bumper
Traxxas bandit bulkhead, bell crank, arms, caster blocks, axles, etc
Traxxas stampede transmission, shock towers
Sc10 front wheels and tires
HPI nitro rush rear wheels and tires
Rc10 body

From nothing to something, I can’t complain, tracks nice, jumps well, durable. This is the perfect car for those moments when you have a guest over and ask “hey, can I give that a try?” when you’re running your fully restored rc10... I can hand them the remote to this.

Then I think this will qualify

Scratch built this a few years ago. Only used trans and axles from a kit.

j-sou wrote:...
Here's one I scratch built. Most people have probably seen these pics by now, but here it is again. I designed and built my own chassis to fit the Tamiya Wheelie Bus body.
...

I missed that ; where is the thread? very cool

oh, and most of my builds are in my gallery. If you click on the links inthere it will take you to the build threads for each

My builds are linked in my signature...all of them except the Zebra Optima have major amounts of customizing, modding & fabrication, though I'm not sure if they'd be described as "home built". Have a read through the build threads and decide for yourself.

Man I love that Samba! I keep looking at those body sets & wondering what sort of on-road chassis it would fit... love those Fuchs wheels too, where are they from?

NOW we have a fun thread. Took me a few hours but I wanted to have a monster.

Some of you may have seen this.
Here's a link to video #23 of the series I made on the car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGe4XOIw7k

some pics. IT'S BIG! took me all winter to hand fabricate this.
pics gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34098323@N02/sets/72157623396910248/