This is my Brat that i bought 2nd hand and convereted it to a Frog. Had a diff when I bought it. So A new Frog Shell, Bash Plate and Fox Shocks went on. Electronics straight out of the Galaxy.( Galaxy was my first r/c car. Was Ball raced , Brass idler gear, Le Mans Mod motor & a Relay esc. Had lots of good times with this.
Pic of my Optima Mid in 88 i think at Arana Hills track . I was really out of than. Gave it away for 10 yrs to come back in 98.
I really love the style of photography, the pictures look great, real sharp yet full of nostalgia and warmth. You don't get that 'feeling' with today's digital images.
nice one.. my first car back in 80's...
I started a rc club at School on the local playing fields and didn't understand why someone had defaced every single poster I put up round school by adding an 'er' onto them..
My advert said.. Meeting every Thursday evening
Grove Bugg(er)y club
The Frog was one of my first real rc's and i still can't get enough of these things. I decided to do one with a used black king blackfoot frame i got in a parts pile, along with some old school hop ups like a thorp diff, parma shocks and nerfs, crp...
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I'm a big fan of those rear and front shocks... 8) . Were they period hop-ups for the Frog?
Yes , they were made by parma. I tried finding a neon hose to match the rear but no go for now :)
Finally got my wheels and here's my Frog! I'll probably spray paint the front wheel into black.
hope you guys enjoy :)
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That´s what I´d call a good set of headers :D
Let´s see that body Looks like a beast, taking some design cues from the Monster Beetle/Blackfoot. Bright lights indeed, but kinda funny that they're mostly obstructed by the shocks & shock tower. :)...
here is my frog project i have been working on. it will be an occasional runner(maybe the VOnats if i make it) i have been wanting to do a frog build for awhile now so when i ran across this wreck of a frog i grabbed it. it had a few goodies on it...
hi guys.i want to get a frog but im torn between scoring a used one of the 1rst release or getting a new rerelease...what would you do?
to me a new car in the box is alway more fun to built than to refurbish a used one...i'm also thinking that by...
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I thought I remember someone on here at one point was going to make heavy duty side plates?
This is a new biult frog with some crp hop-ups. I was going to sell the crp stuff on ebay but decided to buy the frog kit and make use of them. The rim outer halfs are aluminum and were purchased from pargu on ebay. I messed up the first body...
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Nice looking Frog. I dig those aluminum side nerf bars. If it was mine, I'd ditch the wheel knock offs though. Looks awesome otherwise. 8)
So I tore project Free frog apart to find that most everything was shot.
I had a few bits from it that were still good though. I also had a all new built Frog roller with a working Thorp dif. in it that had about a 1/4 of dust on it. Frogs and Brats...
Here is how I did the swaybar on my Frog. Used Losi hardware.
The center shaft is a cut down Savage bulkhead tube,notched for e-clips.
Going to make new sideplates out of carbon this week (vintage ones look like ass).
Will road test later (rain) and...
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Yea, I am trying to get some more on power steering and the inside front to stop lifting in turns. Everything workes good on the bench. As long as the bar is not too big it should work ok. I am a bit worried it will lift the inside rear now as it...
I recall my early cars with great fondness too. I only wish I had more pictures.
