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I honestly don't know what to do with this, it's C stamped drilled for 6 gear but not counter sunk, drilled and counter sunk for stealth. As you can see it's light gold and as we know finding a matching nose plate and motor mount for it is pretty much impossible. So I'm after ideas of what to do with it before I:-

A) sell it
B) send it to be anodised / powder coated along with a nose plate and motor mount to match.
C) paint it
D) put it back in the loft and never look at it again

This is not a pole I just need some serious suggestions please. For the record B is looking most likely at the moment.

What version RC10 does it belong to?

Thanks.

It's a late championship edition chassis (no countersunk holes for the 6-gear) and you should just sell it to me

If that's the way it goes you will get first refusal Sir I would really like to use it for something or may trade it for something I can use. I think this might be turning into a BST thread.

So build a late CE, any other suggestions please.

you could also fire-up the gas laying behind and see what happens

i'd get it reanodized a different color, along with a motor plate, nose plate, and a set of shock bodies.

I just received a nip gold tub that is stamped "B" and it is drilled and countersunk for stealth and drilled but not countersunk for the 6 gear. Color appears to be a regular gold not the light green gold of which I have another "A" stamp tub. I'm not taking it("B" stamped) out of the package it's put away for a couple years untill there aren't anymore coming up on ebay and then I'll comtemplate what to do with it. It's the light green gold tub that is the current problem because of the availability of matching nose and motor plates. Might send that out and get it re-anod a deeper gold or different color altogether maybe one of those flourescent colors.

could always just hang onto it, its not going anywhere so you dont have to use it right away, who knows, 5 months from now you could be viewing ebay and a nose will pop up, never know?

I vote for E. just like above me said. Stick it away and maybe you'll find a nose for it in the same color. ebay has some miracles happen amongst all the crap they also shovel. If you don't run across a nose/motormount/ for it later you can always have it reannodized or powdercoated like you mentioned in B.
Todd

not being smart, but if you have never seen one of those nip C stamp gold tubs in person, they have to be the fugliest tubs on the planet. completely full of scuffs and scratches, and all of those imperfections were just anodized right over. even the anodizing itself looks like crap. i personally have never seen a nose plate that will match those tubs. the color is just SO light. although, i have seen a new motor plate that looked that bad. i had one, and traded it to a guy who had one of those awful looking tubs.

the nip black tubs aren't any better, imo. but they don't show the imperfections quite as bad.

so, i'm more or less saying that even if you'd leave it gold, and pray to find a matching nose and motor plate, the car would still look like crap.

just my $.02.

just to add............

when i worked at the lhs back in the day, we sold at least 3-4 6011 c.e. kits a week during the summer months, and around christmas time. most of them, i had to build. even the tubs from the kits were lighter than the nose plates. they seemed to get worse as they got closer to the end of production too, for some reason.

i got one just like it. fugly but nip, and i intend to keep onto it until it becomes desirable just because its so fugly.

i have another one that i used for my only goldpan so-far, and it's just icky looking... bleh.

b. anodize/ powder coat that thing along with a nose plate and motor mount. build yourself a beauty.

rc-stu wrote:b. anodize/ powder coat that thing along with a nose plate and motor mount. build yourself a beauty.

imho the fugly of it is whats makes it unique... i wouldnt in a million years take a nip chassis and anodize/powdercoat it when they are a zillion mildy used chassis' out there that would work just as well.