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ok well here are all my early edinger cars all in one place. 1 is a no stamp. all have notched pistons, orginal speed controls, 7 rib tires, early rear tires,(couple cars have goodyears) diamond wing buttons (the old milwaukee car has reissue ones the rest are orginal) ,correct 6 gear trans, fiberglass battery straps, (some cars dont) edinger motors, and 1 orginal clear gear cover. the last single pic is my box art attempt and yes u do see 4 orginal spring cups on that car its also sporting 4 goodyear edinger tires. (i also have one more extra pair of edinger rear spring cups just in case i come across anther early car missing those parts)

the 1st single pic is my only no stamp rc10 complete with goodyear tires put in the edinger motor after pic was taken. the 2nd single pic is my box art attempt its complete with goodyears(does not have a early light gold main chassis, but does have the light gold nose and motor plate) and yes it does have the orginal spring cups frt and rear!

Great collection, I still need to fill that gap myself.

i though one early car would make me happy, but i guess i need more

At least we know 6 out of the first 5000 made are still out there. Who knows how many more were thrashed and tossed out into the garbage.

is that a real number 5000 orginal early edinger's?????

Very unlikely- it's been floated as low as 250 and as high as 5000. Given where and how they were made in 84', I would surmise 500-1000ish... but there are only 2 perfect and original examples here and another 4-5 original and correct examples I've seen after that...so it's 100% arguable either way

and...they started changing things (like the tires w/o the goodyear and added stamp) very soon in the production. So realistically with the small shop I'd wager on the side of < 500 Goodyear, no-stamp cars released before the first revision car, supposedly revised in a month of beginning production...but that may be hearsay.

Nice collection you have there !!!! DON

My credible source that 5000 kits were first released was from the late Gene Husting. In the March 1985 issue of R/C Racing News, the following was published. The following is screen shots from his DVD Collection Volume 10.

o cool thats good to know. now just need to find and buy 4,994 more

well iam up to 7 now including this one have since replaced the rere rear tires with edinger rear tires (no goodyear logos)

HI!... What body is that? I've never seen one of those before.

amc sprint modified

Would probably help too if you told him it was made by Parma.

well i just picked up this little gem an old andys body(i added the wing with orginal diamonds) i decieded to put this on one my the early edinger cars i have. bodies not perfect but pretty darn clean.