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I bought these from bearrickster. he got these truck from rich trujillo he works at team losi and has been for the past 20 years. these were test/prototype team drivers trucks. drivers might have been "matt francis" & "adam drake." their were a total of 8 made, which were custom made inhouse at losi. rich trujillo took these out of the dumpster and saved them after testing. these are the only 3 left. u can see the different mill work and the difference in the holes in the chassis. one chassis has the #8 engraved which on the bottom side also has a z engraved. not sure the differences are from the stock production trucks. i bought 2 xxxnt trucks off ebay to put these in roller form than i will be able to see the differences. here is a email i got from rich after i asked him about the history on these trucks:

To be honest, I simply don't remember. I gave them to Rick knowing he was pretty hardcore Losi. I saved them from the dumpster but after being with losi going on 20 years next month, I've seen and been part of lots of projectors but it's all a blur. I'll talk to adam drake and see if he recalls anything.

Sorry I don't have more to offer ,
Rich

on chassis #8 i also found it says #8 on the trans. the other trans i have has a #6 on it.

u can see how the chassis braces are slighty different as they were refind. also the prototypes had a 2 peice chassis brace as the production ones were a solid 1 peice design as show in the pic.

Losi's prototype parts are the most interesting things to me in whole "rc world" to me. You have really nice collection there.

Jirka

thanks this is going to be a on going post.

I am glad you like them they have just been in a box for the last few years I had them. they are something that needs to be seen

ya still going to post a bunch of pics plus going to put em in roller form soon.

Looking foward to that

here are the doner trucks. they are like new and pretty much got one for free for the price i paid !

well looks like the prototype truck and the production truck are 95% different. i took pics and will post later. need to do some work just to get the stock parts to fit the prototype chassis