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Well the starting point is this little dirty bug hoping to find a period correct bolink body rear pod is used but i have a aluminium technique that should make it work.

reign79 wrote: hoping to find a period correct bolink body

Hmmmmm

Yes that could pretty much translate...... Mr Lexan i need a body please i Will send ya a pm

Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents on this one. I raced a 1/12 Bandito for Bolink back in the day. The only Bolink body I could get The Bandito to handle with was the BL-2050 Ferrari 312 Open Sports. Other team guys had good luck with Bolink Schkee. The only other Bolink bodies that I remember guys running on a Bandito were the BL-2075 Porsche 917K or the BL-2094 March 82G GTP. Hope this helps.
Marc

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How did this car handle? Was it good or not? Especially when there is quite a sort of complicated suspension system in this car.

How did this car handle? Was it good or not? Especially when there is quite a sort of complicated suspension system in this car.

The Bandito handled pretty well when it was set-up properly. It was pretty forgiving and less twitchy than say a Super-Phaser. The front suspension worked fine and didn't need much maintenance, it was similar to the Schumacher B car front set up. In my opinion the problem with the car was, unless you drove it perfectly clean it would tweak easily. I can remember it holding a tweak from just clipping a dot. There were too many screws holding the tray to the chassis. They seemed to shift, making the chassis twist then hold that tweaked position.

Thanks for your first hand professional experience sharing

A little progress literally i forgot how tiny these things are

Sweet little Bandito, it almost makes me want to build my Parma Euro Panther.

Some more updated pics now for that body

It looks very industrial with the chrome wheels and no tires. Are the wheels some of the Steve Rule closeout items? They do look a little too modern for the chassis, they are very 12L like. Shouldn't it have the black wheels with Road Hugger tires?

Still an outstanding car.

Yeah just threw em on for the pics there ae 12l wheels the road huggers are going to pretty hard to find. i do have some new 12e rims that might work. I like the whole no foam look it gives it that museum look

The chrome Paragon dish wheels would look pretty good on that.

Now that you mention it i believe i have a set with rubber caps i will have to look

Well i think the paragon's will stay got some period correct wirring and steering servo and sanyo's. Man trying to fit a old futaba reciever on this thing Maybe what i got on there is enough.