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Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:49 am

vwrobert wrote: Well a kit of parts to fit onto a Tamiya chassis(Nt included) costs $120 plus shipping.

Made to order in unpainted gelcoat resin.Usually 28 days delivery.

There are several Split bus models available so i wont touch that unless i get enough interest. I always wanted to make a double cab, with teh Herbie Busses available cheaply they are easy to amend.

Ghia models have been out there in the past at a large scale. but im no modelmaker and the one off model would be crude. I could turn out a one off thing if anyone has a decent sized model and drawings of a Thing.

Squareback/Notch/fastbacks again not so easy. And 411 the same. Im willing to have a go but setup costs for each model are about £50-70 each Plug and then the moulds. With enough interest im willing to try.
I have been looking for a ghia body in 1:12.
Do you know of any places that I should look?

Thanks
Rob

Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:15 am

RC10 GT

Nitro Mini has .18 with a two speed tranny. all carbon fiber chassis and shock towers. tons of hop ups. luckily i was able to meet the actual guy who holds the molds for the VW bus body. i was able to get him to pop out 6 bodies for me two years ago. i still have them all but not willing to part with them. These bodies come as a full bus and you have the option to cut it out and make a singlecab out of it. comes with all the pieces to make it a truck. I still try and buy up as much as i can for my mini. i hope to have this rc car for years to come only because i dont think that anyone will be producing VW bus bodies again any time soon.

Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:25 pm

Florida_Buggy wrote: so-calvwdude wrote:
-XTMX-Cellerator (soon to be a sand dragster)

Do they have R/C sand drags now? I'd LOVE to do that, but we never get to do anything cool over here :(
They probably do, but i dont know.... That would be cool though. I am just going to throw some paddles on it and a big engine and take it to the beach and glamis.

Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:15 am

This is the Scary F201, built in Washington, now resides in California...the only Tamiya F201 ever built to the hilt...I now have a slightly custom Xray T2 007 I'll post up later...

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:23 pm

I used to race R/C pretty competitively. I've raced all over SoCal, the UK and in Guam. Last time out I race the Jammin Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy. I love that but since my move to SoDak I don't do it because well there isn't any good tracks within 6hrs. :roll: I'll post pics of my rides when the site is back up!

Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:45 pm

I was always into RC cars as a kid.
I didn't get much into them until i was around 15 though, that's when i bought my first nitro powered car
That didn't last too long though, after i bought my second car I lost interest (i got my license and a job around the same time)

My first nitro RC, a redcat volcano (pretty good for the price):

unfortunately the baja bug body its all crappy now due to peeling paint (it was my first rc body paint job)

Second (and un-used for a while now) HPI

some day I'll get back into it... some day

Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:06 pm

yo i rolled a black foot personally, but i cant believe none of you knee crows rolled a CLOD BUSTER!!!!? WTF????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:18 pm

Had a clod , and a black foot. :wink:

Got this now....

Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:30 pm

Had a Clodbuster, bullhead, MRP High roller and a USA1. I also had one of the first sledgehammers. Midnight Pumpkin was my first RC followed by too many to count. I still have my dirt oval RC 10, left offset Chassis, Trackmaster belt tranny (mid Mount), 10L front beam. I`m looking for a SRP-1

Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:42 pm

I had a Clodbuster for a week or two :lol:

When I was in high school I worked at a local Hobbytown USA. The manager and I wanted Clod's BAD. SO we decided to pull 2 from stock to build for us and we'd pay the store over time. Well, I built them both, we played with them in the store for a while, then the owner sold the store. We really didn't want to explain what we did, so we put the trucks back into stock. I was kinda tired of it anyway. The thing was dog slow, and we didn't really have any terrain to test it.

Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:40 pm

Stevie Fierce wrote: yo i rolled a black foot personally, but i cant believe none of you knee crows rolled a CLOD BUSTER!!!!? WTF????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!? Go back a few pages... :roll: Yes, knee crows real freakin cute. :fist:

Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:56 pm

heres the r/c cars im currently rolling with:
xtm xt2, nothing to special

team associated b4

rc 18t with a mamba brushless motor
last but not least, my revo with just about every hop-up imagineable and an axial motor thats just stupid fast...anyone wanna race?

Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:33 pm

I was into RC's for a few years. Had a T-Maxx that I played with in the pits for a few years but I got sick of spending money on it. I still have my Sportraxx Raven ST that I mess around with sometimes. They are alot of fun but mine seemed like they broke every time I used 'em...but it could have been my driving... :wink:

Mitch

Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:42 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZyC7vFz2A

check out this drifting action![/youtube]

Tue May 06, 2008 2:01 pm

Team Losi 8ight-T

Tue May 06, 2008 10:15 pm

How the hell did I miss this one. I have a Team Losi XXX-S, which I don't run at all. An HPI RS4 (original) is my daily, pictured. Please excuse the body posts as I run multiple bodies on this chassis and I am too lazy to switch body posts every time. I don't enter them in shows, I drive the shit out of them, so they're beat up.

Tue May 06, 2008 10:27 pm

Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:41 pm

Old thread but has anyone checked this out from Duratrax yet?

http://www.rceasy.com/2011/10/07/duratrax-vw-baja-bug/

Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:25 am

polarfire wrote: Old thread but has anyone checked this out from Duratrax yet?

http://www.rceasy.com/2011/10/07/duratrax-vw-baja-bug/

Yeah, I work at a hobby shop and we sell those. Its pretty much a Duratrax Evader.

Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:26 pm

I have been into R/C everything for the past 12 years or so, and used to race at a local track. I have had quite a few in my days. The list...

-Tamiya Frog (my pops handed down to me)
-Tower Hobbies Nitro st-15 (garbage)
-Kyosho Ultima st type R Pro (race truck)
-Kyosho Skyline mini z
-Kyosho Abrams tank
-Tamiya TL01
-Bolink Digger
-Bolink sport 2000 (oval car)
-2 Traxxas Stampedes
-Traxxas Rustler
-Team Associated rc10gt (race truck)
-Duratrax Nitro Evader (still have)
-Team Losi Mini-t w/ Mamba (still have)
-Traxxas Jato (still have)
-Redcat Truggy (clean as hell, got for free, still have)
-Tamiya Clodbuster (not a reproduction, still have)

Out of all of those my favorite has to be the Clodbuster. I always wanted one as a kid, but could never touch the cost of a complete kit. When I finally got mine I gave it the Grave Digger treatment, and I absolutely love it. Sure, its slow, and heavy. But, it has character thats hard to match!

I also have a e-flite mini helicopter, a Herr Engineering Cloud Ranger (Plane), and a ducted fan f-18 hornet that I'm scratch building from depron, and balsa. Its going to have a 54" wingspan, and should come in at just over 80" in length; its about 30% complete.