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Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:29 am
by MadZero
FASTEDDIE wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 1:53 am
My MARKER CARS Chassis Pan car.
And Associated and RC250 club car.
I've personally owned the Marker since about 1972.
Bought it at Trost Hobby Shop in Chicago.
Bought it to Race the circuits but didn't work out as planned. Just raced some local area races.
Some years later I bought my Associated car. The Marker is just a rolling chassis now, stripped it down to a basic chassis. cause I was going to update it from scratch. Then the sport locally started to fizzle out. So started racing real cars instead and my poor Marker just sat in the closet for decades. Has a Steed Lola body which I started to strip to repaint and never finished.
My Associated car is about 95% complete running chassis. Didn't finish this one. Car engine OS MAX 21 Is brand new never fired.
Chassis never run. Approx. 50 years I've owned my Marker.
Sweet, very envious of your NIB engine too.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 7:24 pm
by romulus22
Nothing special but very clean new built condition. Dynamic Sidewinder.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:25 pm
by Phin
Not complete, but a lot cleaner than
it was when I got it.
Also got a nice surprise when I cleaned the grime off the diff housing. Made it much easier to ID.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:48 pm
by Phin
Phin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:49 am
The shorter motor plate has the name Grasby scratched into it, which I assume is the name of the original owner/builder.
Spotted the name Jerry Grasby in a race report for the 1982 Florida 1/8 Winter Nats, and after a quick internet search I believe I found the gentleman responsible for all the neat custom work on the RC500 I picked up several months ago.
https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/17832270/Gerald-R-Grasby
RIP.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:47 pm
by Phin
Does anyone know if the RC200 ever came with RC300 wheels & radio plate as part of a rolling change?
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 4:41 pm
by Phin
Phin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:47 pm
Does anyone know if the RC200 ever came with RC300 wheels & radio plate as part of a rolling change?
Okay so I think I found the answer to this question, and the "rolling change" was actually the RC150.
When I did a basic internet search on RC150 info I found an estimated release date of 1975, and an assumption that the RC150 came out between the RC100 and RC200....but after doing a deep dive through old magazine scans the first mention of the RC150 I've been able to find is in the May '83 issue of Model Builder Magazine:
So the age order of AE's 1/8 pan cars seems to be RC1->RC2->RC100->RC200-RC300->RC300BD->RC150->RC250. To me the RC150 seems to have been a case of AE using up all their remainder RC200 parts.
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:48 pm
by romulus22
Anyone have an RC500 with this radio tray they could pull a few numbers for me?
Thanks
Re: The Vintage 1/8 Onroad Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:58 pm
by RC10resto
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