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Ok so a friend of mine passed away in a car accident this past week, The family is going to have a benefit / car show to raise money to help with expenses, The web site i run for a local scaler club is going to setup a small Rc Car show for people to look at. I have been asked to bring some of my vintage cars to display at the event.

Now what i need help with, If i post a few cars i can take, can you guys give me some history on them? Id like to make a small laminated card to tell a little bit about the cars, what, when and why type stuff.

Here are a couple id like to take, If you guys can help it would be greatly appreciated, Ill add some cars if this works out lol, I just dont know much history and why some parts were made and for what reason. Ill try and answer any questions you might have.

RC10 AnL Build


RC10 Hot Trick Trailing Arm


RC10 Late Edinger


AYK Pro Radiant

The Hot Trick Stuff came out of San Diego. The company was owned by a guy named Bill Steele. I remember some parts (like Tamiya (metric) front axles, red aluminum spring retainers, wide nose plate etc) being available for the short arm pretty soon after it came out (1985ish). I don't know but he may have been around doing on road carpet or srb/kyosho scorpion "stuff" prior to 1984. The company boomed with the off road racing popularity through about 1988. I know it disappeared about then, but just googled that it was sold to Proline in 1988, and I guess that was that.

IMO the red was genius marketing, as if red annodizing worked for my bmx parts, it must be cool for rc parts? Unfortunately, most of it looked better on the shelf than it worked.

Y'ernat Al wrote:The Hot Trick Stuff came out of San Diego. The company was owned by a guy named Bill Steele. I remember some parts (like Tamiya (metric) front axles, red aluminum spring retainers, wide nose plate etc) being available for the short arm pretty soon after it came out (1985ish). I don't know but he may have been around doing on road carpet or srb/kyosho scorpion "stuff" prior to 1984. The company boomed with the off road racing popularity through about 1988. I know it disappeared about then, but just googled that it was sold to Proline in 1988, and I guess that was that.

IMO the red was genius marketing, as if red annodizing worked for my bmx parts, it must be cool for rc parts? Unfortunately, most of it looked better on the shelf than it worked.

Thanks, Im going to do some digging to see what i come up with for the rest of them, And i agree, the HT stuff is more for the shelf then actual use lol

Sorry to hear that, I hope everything goes well for you and the family.

so just a couple blurbs as I know it (btw, very sorry to hear of your loss)

as far as the late edinger, there should be plenty of back story here in regards to it's evolution, but it's more or less just small refinements in process based on the original design. associated chose to design an all new off road buggy based on the fact that there were not many true 'race bred' chassis' at the time, and the off road scene was really taking off.

to move onto the AnL car, since many of the existing buggy designs were based on trailing arms many manufacturers offered different suspension styles as racers tried many things to get them better handling as off roading became more popular. Darryl Lane is a member here and can give you much more info regarding how this particular kit became available.

the AYK Pro radiant evolved because the Dunn brothers formed the company Race Prep and raced this chassis, I would assume as the original radiant(rear motored) with upgrades. They had good success with this model and imported it as the 'Pro'. I believe one of the Dunn brothers was/is also a member here. So this model is technically a Race Prep Pro Radiant.