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This is a BoLink Digger I have had for a while - I remember as a kid (1985 or so), some guy was playing around with one of these in the pits at the local off-road track. His Digger had rubber tires, knobbies in the back, and was the fastest thing I had ever seen - it was spitting rocks everywhere and wheelying all at the same time... Obviously it would not have gotten around the track very well, but, in the pits, that thing ripped!!!

Some pictures:

The Digger kits came with pre-painted bodies. The problem was you couldn't specify what color you wanted so it was completely random what you got. Out of all the colors I had to get the pink.

Lucky for me, my wife really likes the pink bug body... Which helps to sooth the impact of all my other R/C stuff that she calls "junk"!

By the way - this model has "full" ball-bearings... There is a total of only six bearings in the entire thing - two in each front wheel, and two larger ones supporting the rear axle... That's it! (pretty cheap to rebuild

I had an orange 1 as a kid. I had talked my grandma in to buying it for me, kinda funny she always called it a babalink. I picked up another one a couple years ago for sentimental reasons. I wish I could find a set of those proline wheels that you could mount rubber tires to, I'd get it out and run it. They are def rockets. I still have a new 67 camaro body I had bought for the first one, they had several cool bodies for them.

oh man this bring a tear to my eye! my first rc car as a kid was an orange digger... I'm gonna order a new one for sure!

Man that thing brings back some memories, they were always silly fast, super simple and didn't handle for crap. They made a decent drag car though!

love the bug body.... prety cool.