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Just waiting to head out of the office so I figured I would post it up.


I remembered coming across this in a tub of ski-gear a couple years ago and bein' all WTF. I just about tossed it, but something told me to hang onto it. I was wondering what I ever did with it, so, last place I saw it, ski-tub. Yep, pulled down the tub and it was still in there at the bottom where it been waiting smashed for years.

It wasn't in great shape whenever it made it's way into the tub and all the years of smashing didn't do it any favors. It looked like trash, but I figured a little elbow grease was worth a shot. Took a heat gun to it and got the sides straight...ish. Pulled off most of the old decals and adhesive residue. After washing it I decided to clay-bar, polish, wax it. It felt a little crazy and overkill for a toy car body I painted over 20 years ago when I was 12, but it's small, I'll be done before anyone can witness my lunacy.

Came out better than expected. I was using it more for an experiment on "detailing" lexan as I've never tried it before. It's legit runner status to me now. The neon yellow on the nose was painted on the outside after the fact when I was a kid. I was racing indoors on carpet for the first time at a track inside a warehouse which was lit like a warehouse, so, from the driver's stand I could see my 10LS just well enough to run it into the pylons on almost every corner. Hastily sprayed the yellow on between sessions to help better locate the front end on the track. I got over-spray on most of the front that remained there until I clayed the thing a couple nights ago.

This one makes it look a little better than it actually is. The light polish helped, but it's still quite scratched.

I like it!

Me too

Cheers, Dave.

Good you held onto it, it's still one of the better bodies out there, perfect for running a fast brushless (8.5 turns or lower on 2S).

I remember it. Pleasant bodies with spacer under them for older style chassis formats.

EvolutionRevolution wrote:Good you held onto it, it's still one of the better bodies out there, perfect for running a fast brushless (8.5 turns or lower on 2S).

I haven't even gotten around to modern electronics yet. Aside from the 5000mah nimh batteries everything I've got is from the mid-late 90's at best. I'm still pretty impressed with the speed/power and surprised pre-teen me could even drive these things. The closest I've come to lip0/brushless is youtube. Knowing what they do as-is I can't imagine them on a modern overpowered lipo/brushless combo.

Harvey Wood wrote:I remember it. Pleasant bodies with spacer under them for older style chassis formats.

I forgot how much I liked it. Would be nice if someone started popping them out again. I would like to have one in nice shape done up in some overly neon'd early 90's type colors.