scootmike

Good to hear, hope to hear something soon on mine!

Have seen several F150's in the showrooms that have an aluminum roll bar fitted to the body. Have searched all over for these, any info who makes or made them? Would like to find one. Thanks Mike

found made most, still need rear window.

Black paint looks sharp! Nice job. Stripe reminds me of Starsky and Hutch.

Keep an eye out for the matching front oil shocks, they were also sold by You-G and Trinity, same parts.

And actually a fun car to run! Good Luck with your resto!

Best bet would be to find the manuals online for the Scorpion and Tomahawk and compare them. Most parts can be found on ebay.

Pretty Please!!!

Wow 10 years glad to hear you found the missing edition. Nothing like finishing a collection. Congrats! Mike

Haven't seen Alex's Enthusiast publication online anywhere, would make for some good reading! Actually have one of his builds, a Sand Rover, he used to do quite a few new builds and ebay them, think he still does now and then. I remember contacting Tamiya 20 some years ago needing help trying to figure out parts I had, they sent me his email. Mike

Have not had a Falcon to compare, but between the Frog and Fox, I'll take the Fox, remember my first run, was really impressed with the handling and speed for box stock. The old Frog just seemed to bounce all over the place fun buggy to run and hop up though!

I've been on the lookout too, would love to find a JG catalog!

Hi Steve If you don't find a mint set, I might have a set that has been creased, decals are fine, crease is in the backing.

Used to collect vintage motor scooters from the 50's 60's used it on aol when it first came online, kinda stuck.

Hi All Looking for a Scorpion gear cover, new or used is fine. Thanks Mike

Just ordered my Rock Crushers, Topper, and Flares, will load pics when I get it all together.

Nice truck Skotto!

Think I'm going with the Rock Crushers, shouldn't have started looking at Hilux stuff, now I'm looking a the truck cap, fender flares etc..

Thanks for the suggestions guys, not sure if I want to go with the 2.2's or not, I like the scale look of the 1.9's but the stock tires look too small. Been checking out the Rock Crushers and the Flat Irons, even though they are not the newest tires, I'm liking the look of them Just trying to fill out the wheels wells more and keep it pretty much Tamiya. Great looking trucks Roots and Goose!

Champ85 I think your are pretty much spot on, I remember when I bought all my parts, the owner of the shop made it pretty clear Tamiya dumped MRC and it was not to friendly Also remember talking to a guy on the net who used to hit the dumpsters at MRC and take tons of parts after the split, seems MRC cleaned house afterwards. The hobby shop bought the entire contents from the Midwest Dist that were in a warehouse, opened up a 2nd shop just to sell parts, I remember going for a week straight after work just looking at parts as they opened up new boxes. There were thousands and thousands of parts dumped on tables, still in boxes etc...parts from every major maker were included, CRP, Parma, Bolink, JG, AE, very little for Kyosho though. AAHH the good old days, wish I could go back. About a year later, I went looking for a few old parts, the owner said I could go looking in the basement, that's where all the leftover parts were. I went down found a few things, he comes down, tells me he needs to sell the lot, the landlord was needing the storage room back. He gives me a price of $600, at the time that was a lot of money for me, I tell him I can't do it, he comes back with make an offer, I offer $300. He accepts and asks when can you get it out of here? I say right now! Call my uncle he brings his truck, We packed his truck and mine cab high inside and out. Bunggie cords everywhere holding everything together. My wife was tripping out when we got him with the loads. HA HA. I started putting parts on ebay, back then no such thing as buy it nows, one of the first things i put on there was an Audi Quattro Rally body kit, I was flooded with emails, I had no idea it was rare, started the auction at $9.99, it ended at $354 I think, paid for all of it in 1 auction, crazy days. Had tons of SRB parts, sold most of them before there was ever any talk about re re's. All of this turned me into a collector, it's been fun! .

Looking for tires for my truck, any suggestions? Want to keep the same size as stock but looking for something taller and beefier. Thanks Mike

Yep,gascarman, sent him my list too, he came through with some great deals, got a few of the Tomahawk bags also. He's been sitting on those parts for a few years, I talked to him several years ago and he wasn't in a hurry to go through them.

What was the deal with that anyway? I still have old Tower catalogs with Kyosho in them.

Wow can't imagine throwing all those Cox parts away, guess when they were done, that was it, get it out of here. Liked to have come across that landfill! I bought out a hobby shop around 20 years ago, it was when MRC was dropped by Tamiya, everything the Midwest Distributor had was going for pennies on the dollar. I bought the leftovers that didn't sell. 2 and 1/2 truckloads. Can kick myself for selling all the Super Champ and Ranger XLT body sets.

I thought about doing some out of Kydex, sent a guy "gomachv" on RC10Talk a JG Scorpion A Main bumper and a JG Scorpion front skid plate to cut copies for me, picked up the Kydex from Amazon and had it shipped to him, came out very nice, he does some good work. Thought it would be cool to have matching roof plates, never followed up on it though