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Dr. Robotnik wrote:

Mr. ED wrote:Ed, any chance you could give us all a rough translation for the magazine article?
I asked my mrs, but she didn't jump

ROFL if I have time and you can provide a link.

errrr, the article is on page 2 of this thread

More FF cars, one which is fifty Yoke/fifty TopCat and the other base on a gold RC10 If you want me to translate anything, let me know! Enjoy!

Mr. ED wrote:

Dr. Robotnik wrote:

Mr. ED wrote:Ed, any chance you could give us all a rough translation for the magazine article?
I asked my mrs, but she didn't jump

ROFL if I have time and you can provide a link.

errrr, the article is on page 2 of this thread

Hah! I haven't seen this until now! I don't know if it's the small size of monitor I am using but the Kanji are to small for me to read properly...I can get the gist but it doesn't seem worth writing out. If there was bigger scan then maybe...

Hey Asso Man,this is super cool!Thanks very much!Can you give us the main point of what it is saying in the blue box?Which month year is this Auto 8 issue taken of ?

the first one is dated from Dec. '91 and the second one from Sept. '89 (both are from the French National Championships).

summary of the blue box about the FF RC10:

- MIP tranny
- battery in front position for more traction on the front end
- steering servo at the back (body had to be cutted to fit)
- on the track the car has more traction than any other FF car present that day
- very good handling
- the rear end tends to bounce a bit when landing after jumps but not that much
- biggest drawback is the lack of steering amplitude of the front wheels, with a bit of understeering at the end of the straight line

the very last FF car is a French MRC Sand Master and the winning car is the very first one FF prototype

I never knew MRC made an EP FWD buggy.
Did they ever release it?
I had a big poster of them in my room as a boy which only showed the 4wd and mentioned the RWD.
Quite a few parts look famialiar ofcourse

Anyway, great article, thankyou for scanning and uploading this

Mr. ED wrote:Did they ever release it?

Yes they did and I think the one you see in the pic is pretty much stock, cool European cars

I just noticed the one on the first page, top right, doesn't seem to have shocks in the rear

unfortunately those FF cars are self-made only...........otherwise.......they are another big big collector's items........

minimini wrote:unfortunately those FF cars are self-made only...

Not all of them , and you're right it would be a good theme for a focused collection

Mr. ED wrote:I just noticed the one on the first page, top right, doesn't seem to have shocks in the rear

Does there appear to be a single cross-mounted shock just below the wing? I may be seeing pixels that aren't there!

civilguy wrote:

Mr. ED wrote:I just noticed the one on the first page, top right, doesn't seem to have shocks in the rear

Does there appear to be a single cross-mounted shock just below the wing? I may be seeing pixels that aren't there!

David, can you tell from looking at the picture in the magazine?

Long ago I actually made a very similar looking FWD car based on the same car (optima mid).
That one used FRP instead of dampers and worked reasonable, but it was a 190mm sedan. I wouldn't expect the same desing to work on the rear of a buggy

Mr. ED wrote:
David, can you tell from looking at the picture in the magazine?

Shocks are indeed present at the rear, if you look closely, you will see the bottom cup on the right side, the rest is hidden by the wing

there have been FW drive nitro cars .

There was an electric version of that one also by kyosho: Mantis series of dtm's. Similar in principele as the later M-chassis. you could build a dual engine 4wd with them LOL
They were a novice class 190mm touringcar with no dampers and torsion style springs on the arms ( kinda like the brush springs on a motor)

Tamiya also did fwd touringcars aofcourse. But FWD buggies are much rarer indeed.