NovaFox and Fox. A replica of my first r/c car.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 11:22 pm
Here's a replica build. My first real r/c car was the Tamiya Fox. I bought it in 86 or 87 with money that I saved collecting pop cans. I had a paper route at the time, but for whatever reason my parents insisted that if I wanted an r/c car, I had to pay for it with nickel cans. Anyway, I ran the heck out of that car and a lot of fun times. I'd race with my buddy who had a Grasshopper, chase neighborhood dogs around, jump whatever I could find and just kick up dust in the gravel alley behind our house. The Fox is the car that got me hooked on r/c. A few years later I discovered a local r/c club. I tried the Fox out on the track once and it just wasn't cutting it, so I saved up and bought a Jrx2. I held on to the Fox and continued to bash around with it. When I went away to college I sold off all my r/c gear to buy a new mountain bike. Fortunately when it came time to sell, the Fox had a broken chassis, so I didn't even bother trying to sell it, figuring nobody would want it. Up in my parents' attic it went. I got it down a few years back, got it a new chassis and put it on the shelf. The old girl is brittle, so trying to get it running again wasn't even a consideration. She put in her time, now it's time to sit on the shelf and remember the old days.
When the NovaFox was released I knew I had to get one, finally last month I did. No nickel pop cans to pay for this one.
The car went together super quickly. Before I started to put it together, I dug out my old Run DMC tapes, the same ones I was listening to when I got my first Fox. I wanted the total nostalgia experience when I built my new Fox and those tapes made it a lot of fun. I had a few different ideas for the body, from various different colors with box art decals to other liveries that I used back in the day and raced with, but ultimately I knew I had to paint it just like the original, black. At first I was torn that the new decals said NovaFox instead of just Fox, but that's fine, it distinguishes the cars. The wheels are gold (for now) as they were when I finished my first Fox. Take a look at the rear tire treads on the old Fox and you'll have an idea of how much wear and tear the original gold wheels took and why I eventually painted/shapied them black.
I can't wait to take the NovaFox out for a drive! That's why I bought it. I wanted to experience my first real r/c car all over again. There are a few differences between the Fox and the NovaFox, but they are tiny. The NovaFox is 99% the same car as the original Fox. It's already put a huge smile on my face and I haven't even had it outside yet.
Special thanks to transamman908 for hooking me up with some of the decals to make the new car look more like the old one.
When the NovaFox was released I knew I had to get one, finally last month I did. No nickel pop cans to pay for this one.
The car went together super quickly. Before I started to put it together, I dug out my old Run DMC tapes, the same ones I was listening to when I got my first Fox. I wanted the total nostalgia experience when I built my new Fox and those tapes made it a lot of fun. I had a few different ideas for the body, from various different colors with box art decals to other liveries that I used back in the day and raced with, but ultimately I knew I had to paint it just like the original, black. At first I was torn that the new decals said NovaFox instead of just Fox, but that's fine, it distinguishes the cars. The wheels are gold (for now) as they were when I finished my first Fox. Take a look at the rear tire treads on the old Fox and you'll have an idea of how much wear and tear the original gold wheels took and why I eventually painted/shapied them black. I can't wait to take the NovaFox out for a drive! That's why I bought it. I wanted to experience my first real r/c car all over again. There are a few differences between the Fox and the NovaFox, but they are tiny. The NovaFox is 99% the same car as the original Fox. It's already put a huge smile on my face and I haven't even had it outside yet.
Special thanks to transamman908 for hooking me up with some of the decals to make the new car look more like the old one.
