The UK isn't exactly overwhelmed with used examples, and its never economical to buy from the USA (shipping costs plus import duty, handling fees and taxes
). Despite these barriers, it didn't take too long to find a UK ''RC10 Team Car ''- the seller wouldn't end the auction early so I had to sit it out, and with a final second bid, it was mine 
So this is the start point..
nothing spectacular but not too bad a basis for a reasonable runner. It arrived with a forward only period Gold Star ESC, Acoms RX and servo - all pretty typical fare at the time. It also came with the correct Reedy motor, a handful of spares, a MIP steering assembly and some (not so) great 'spiked' tyres...
Those with a keen eye for these thing will notice the incorrect shocks and even keener eyes will spot the milled chassis tub and 'lightened' front section
As usual, it didn't take me long to decide that I wouldn't be happy just cleaning and rebuilding it as a capable performing, but perhaps somewhat tired looking, runner. So despite the issues with the chassis originality/authenticity I carried on regardless - heck if you throw a load of money at something it can always be fixed
A new Viper body and wing set were acquired from Tower Hobbies, and sent to Jon Millar for painting in the correct Team Car scheme that was used in their marketing campaigns of the time. The first body i've farmed out to someone else to paint and well, I think it was worth it...
Whilst the body was away with Jon i set about finding the correct shock absorbers, which resulted in me sourcing NIP sets for front and rear, thankfully at nothing like the original header card prices
At this stage the car was still in one piece, awaiting full inspection and strip down.
Uh oh, this rebuild was starting to look like another percymon ''rebuild it and never run it'' project , which was not what i wanted really
Scouring eBay one night resulted, by chance, in another RC10 Team Car chassis being acquired. I hadn't had a drink, honest
So the plan is now to build one chassis as a runner, the other as a shelfer.
The shelfer will get the most original chassis tub, the best parts from the two chassis, with an aim to keep things reasonably original in the rebuild process. However as I won't be surfing the net for years looking for hard to find parts at silly prices, a few compromises will be inevitable.
What about the runner ? The plan is to build it up with some non standard parts, and more importantly USE it [:lol:]
Chassis #1 is now stripped down and it's clear the chassis tub was an original that was milled by a previous owner - quite well done, but rather extensive !
Chassis #2 is completely disassembled and all the white nylon parts are soaking in bleach outside in a location subject to full sunlight. The main T6061 aluminium chassis tub has a fair few scratches and a couple of dents that I'll need to rectify, but appears to be an original one with a B stamp which puts it in the middle of the Team car production period.
And some carbon fibre parts arrived from fibre-lyte at the weekend 
