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Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:16 pm
by Brandon G
I've had this one for a few years... Bought pretty much as you see it. Assembled, but it had never been run. Radio equipment came with the car, but the servos and receiver needed remounting. The old white servo tape had given up. Servos had the wrong horns on them, had to fix that too. It was missing the battery hold down strap. If anybody out there has one they don't need, let me know! Also missing the front aluminum body mount, but I have one that will work.
Of course it is in the typical condition I keep most of my projects, assembled and in need of paint.
Enjoy.
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:41 pm
by THE H.P FREAK
HI!... Nice!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:52 am
by call-911
Wow! That's awesome!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 1:35 am
by RC10resto
Was looking at one on ebay earlier today - small world, cool car.
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:35 pm
by Groomi
Love the chassis - it's like a 1:10 slot car!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:15 am
by tamiya
Groomi wrote:Love the chassis - it's like a 1:10 slot car!
drives like one too!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 4:47 pm
by mrlexan
ever take apart the diff? Kinda freggin cool if you ask me. I think these are some of Tamiya's most under-rated cars from BITD.
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 3:18 pm
by Puffdogg
Very nice...on the wishlist for sure!!!!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:36 pm
by Incredible_Serious
mrlexan wrote:ever take apart the diff? Kinda freggin cool if you ask me. I think these are some of Tamiya's most under-rated cars from BITD.
I had one of these back when I first got back into RC again, back in 2002. Was a really nice piece of engineering, in my mind - especially compared to the other Tamiya RM (Racing Master) that I had owned previously, the RM Mk 5 VW Golf.
Sadly, gone on to greener pastures..... this lives in Hong Kong now, from memory.....
One day I'll get another one....
Alex
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:37 pm
by GoMachV
Let's see that diff
surfing the phone I can't even find a manual to look it up
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:03 pm
by THE H.P FREAK
gomachv wrote:Let's see that diff
surfing the phone I can't even find a manual to look it up
HI!... Got to TAMIYABASE. They have downloadable manuals for all the 1st 100 Tamiya RC cars.
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:49 am
by tamiya
mrlexan wrote:ever take apart the diff?
only once, mainly out of curiosity
as maintenance-free as they'd come
that mini potmetal grenade probably makes up half the chassis' weight!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:30 am
by GoMachV
Found a very cool video showing the diff as well as some of the features.
[youtube]usvNEyW0IyY[/youtube]
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:45 pm
by mrlexan
tamiya wrote:mrlexan wrote:ever take apart the diff?
only once, mainly out of curiosity
as maintenance-free as they'd come
that mini potmetal grenade probably makes up half the chassis' weight!
True, but it's still freggin cool!
Re: Tamiya Can Am Lola
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:58 am
by tamiya
Not as cool as the infinitely adjustable caster, grubscrews to adjust chassis tweak and...
this blew my kiddy mind in the 1980s... ballbearings for the kingpins
Ours shared a pitbag with an ABC Super Hero X1... which looked hella more OTT designwise
but didn't work as well as RM Mk1,