I've always wanted to get into this hobby but never took the leap. I am ready now and although limited by my budget... I am excited about getting started.
I was going to purchase a kit and assemble a brand new RC BUT
I found my brothers 80's RC10 Buggy!
I then decided to restore this machine back to running condition. I will attach pictures and hopefully someone can help me identify what year etc.
I look at the first 25 year post and found that my frame has an A stamped into it.
Welcome to the hobby! Nice gold tub rc10 you have there. I am no expert like some of the guys on here but it looks to me like you have an early Cadilac car here. some distinguishing factors such as chassis color, front tires, steering arms, and shock gaskets are some factors of determination. maybe even a late edinger. hard to tell from pic but chassis seems to have that low tone gold anodizing on the edingers. the 25 years of rc10 is a great post to start, like you have already done. a little cleaning and maybe some newer electronics and it could be a nice runner for you. However, they dont make parts for these anymore so if you break anything you will be spending a pretty peny to try and find another. These "vintage" cars are going crazy with collectors now. mostly making them origional and pretty and putting them on a shelf. A cheeper alternative for a every day runner would be an associated b4. you can pick up a rolling chassis used anywhere from 70-100 bucks and parts are readily accessable.
Welcome to the board matt. In answer to your question...E) none of the above. You have the original RC10 that the others all kinda got their start from .
Todd
Peace and professionlism.....Kabunga signing off!!!
OK how about this, what type of maintenance should i do to this car? Should I rebuild the differential (the large plastic gear seems to not be level)? I think one of the rear shocks seems slow, should i rebuild them??
Lastly the steering seems to have a lot of play, how can I fix that???
personally I don't fix anything that isn't broke .
If you plan on doin some mild running with this it would not hurt to go thru the shocks and clean them up and change out the fluid and refill them. If they leak back down right away then yeah, start lookin towards a rebuild on the shocks.
Steering slop is inevitable with that steering setup. You could get new bellcranks for it and it would tighten up a little bit and would still be an unadulterated rc10 or you could search out some after market steering assy. You could go with some aftermarket ballbearing alloy or some worlds steering assy or you can get something that has been recently redone like the A&L steering assy that I personally like as its readily available and it helps support some of the few people still supporting this car . A&L steering can be seen here: http://vintageteamaandl.com/home.htm
Hope this helps.
Enjoy this buggy.
Todd
Peace and professionlism.....Kabunga signing off!!!
Hey Matt. Im trying to put myself in your shoes here. I have personally been in this hobby since the early 90's and have a couple "vintage" cars such as the one you have here and find it difficult to find parts for these cars to restore them. you have an origional rc10 gold pan car. like the first couple cars in the first 25 years of rc10 thread. best bet to find parts for these is on ebay. search " vintage rc10 " and you will get the most results of parts for your car. another option is to get the manual that came with the car and cross referance part #'s as some of the ebay listings have them or simply look at your car and see if they look similar. .. that white gear you are referring to is the spur gear. most of them somewhat wobble and is normal to some extent. ..so here is my final 2 cents. I would either get the car running with what you have, otherwise if you try and piece origional parts together for this car you are going to end up spending an arm and a leg on highly inflated vintage parts. If you want a cheep modern runner that you can play with or even take to your local track to race, here is a good example. http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_info.php/cPath/1_44_1561/products_id/163251/n/Team-Associated-B41-Brushless-RTR-1-10-Buggy-w-24GHz-Radio . this is what you have now but with another 20+ years of development and its ready to run and parts are readily accessible/ cheep.... those gold pans are very collectable and a great achievement in remote control history. That is the car that started it all... so I would keep it and possibly restore it slowly depending on how deep your pockets are and perhaps get a modern day runner to have fun with.
I finally got around to snapping some pics of my carpet oval 10T project. It will probably never see the carpet, but it sure looks good. My favorite mods are the NTC3 shocks with internal springs. I got the idea from the crawler guys who do this,...
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Man, I'm feeling like I'm wakin' up the dead threads here.
Seeing all the great paint jobs in this section has made me realize how few paint jobs I have actually completed and how far I have to go, skill wise. Anyway here are a couple that I have done fairly recently.
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Thank you guys, that is encouraging! I prefer the simple schemes too. I try to make them complement the car. The JRX2 scheme was actually done on an almost totally trashed body. I polished the crap out of it and hacked the back end off because it...
Have any of you tried to create rear toe-in for your old-school RC buggies? This might be apply to old-school Tamiya 4wd buggies or other makes.
When I was a kid, I always thought my buggy could never win because of this one missing feature...and...
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I was thinking that too. Keeping the original plastic, fixed trailing arm arrangement of the Egress would just require additional holes drilled to add some rear toe.
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My name is Tom (<--- as you can see :) ) and I'm a vintage RC fan boy!!
I have a Gold Tub RC10 currently being restored and a Mint FT B3 (not really vintage, but I love 'em. I also have a bunch of other classic RC cars including nearly...
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Ahh, another Tamiyaclub member sucked into the allure of the Golden Oldies community! Cheers 8)
I just just completed this one yesterday evening, this will be the last of my covid-projects as the track has reopened and the racing season has resumed.
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heyy didnt realise there was a reply, sorry man, just subscribed to this thread for future...
anyway i got the Avid RC 2.6x6x3mm Kyosho/Yokomo Differential Thrust Bearing (Tungsten Carbide) and on inspection it is the same size, i think it should...
So I consider myself quite lucky as I have made a lot of friends here, some good ones and some great ones that I talk to on a almost daily basis. I have also been lucky enough to meet a few guys in person, see some gear and run some cars- all...
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I forgot about this thread. I can definitely update MY list
since my post in 2011. Just gotta sit down and think of everyone.
Ok so I see these terms used alot.Is there a difference and if so when do we see the Antique Class in racing??(Or is there one already?)
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Here's about the best description i can find:
Most authorities consider the actual definition of the term 'antique' to mean an age of at least 100 years. If an item is not definitively datable to 100 or more years in age, it should not be directly...