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The ESC that comes with the Hotshot kit is much easier to set up than the old pot-type. It has one button; takes about five seconds to set. It has a "double-click" reverse function: 1st push is all brakes, then if you go back to neutral and push again, you get reverse. If you do it fast enough, you can get reverse while the car is still moving forward.
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I can't seem to find the car, but I'm going to guess the manufacturer is Steyr.
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Ok, let me see if I have all the clues in line here:
Not Japanese
Not French or Italian
200+ years in business
Better known for war machines
Before 1928 or after 1968; based on the wood-spoked wheel I can assume for now pre-1928
Food-related nickname.
Did I miss anything? Let me go consult my good friend Google, and I'll be right back...
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The Lunchbox is awesome. Buy it. Don't think; just buy it. Trust me. Your face will be sore from grinning after the first battery pack.
Just don't paint it yellow.
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Actually, I love seeing the vintage Kyosho stuff. It's under-represented in general, and because they had a wider range of subject matter, I still get surprised once in a while by vehicles I see, unlike Tamiya where I have the kit numbers memorized and have at least seen photos of all of them. When you favor a brand of something, the other brands sometimes hold a mystique that your favorite has lost. A Blackfoot is very familiar, and therefore cool in a coming-home sort of way, but an Ultima-chassis Porsche is strange, exotic, and appealing in a whole different way.
Put another way, you'll never get me to give up my Fender guitar, but that doesn't mean I won't drool over a nice tiger-top Les Paul.
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If it's a brushless, it might explain the bent suspension link...
Nice truck. Just so long as the electronics are from Traxxas, and not Cyberdyne.
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Well, at the entry level, not much has changed, really...
27 mhz is still in use. The Hotshot will come with a silver-can brushed 540, just like you remember, but it now comes with an ESC included with the kit. If you use these items with a Ni-MH battery, you'll get nice long run times without the hassle of caring for Li-Po batteries.
You can go brushless, but you'll have to buy a new speed controller. Probably not worth it to begin with.
Oh, and they still don't come with ball bearings, and you still need them.
Welcome back!
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Thinking outside the box...
I believe there was once a toy Barbie van that was loosely modeled on the FWD VW vans (they called them Eurovans over here, but I do'nt know what they were called in Europe). If that were the right size, it might be cool to adapt. I know I've seen other toy vans as well, but that's the one that comes to mind.
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Back in Minnesota my LHS had three Lancia 037s sitting on the shelf forever and a day. I kept looking at them, and almost walked up to the register with one twice, but I knew the guys in this shop would haggle over kits that had sat around a while. I thought I'd wait a while and save myself some money. So I waited, and one day I went in and all three were gone.
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A bit more progress... Body pieces are now trimmed. I'm thinking of using the Pro-Line treaded tires, but I haven't decided what to use on the front yet.
Body will probably be painted this weekend. It's going to be basic black, with maybe some pinstripes later.
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Personally, I love build threads. Even if I'm not terribly interested in the subject, I can almost always pick up some tips from watching a project come together. And I can be part of a project vicariously that I don't have time/money to do myself.
So let's see it!
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Sorry I'm not familiar with this chap but the car in the middle looks amazing, and I generally don't like american stuff (sorry guys across the pond!)
That's Cadzilla, built for ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons.
And it's okay that you don't like American stuff - I don't like English, um..... wait, I'll think of something.... Jaguars, nope, I like them... um... Oasis... no, this is hard... Strongbow cider... Aw nuts. I was born on the wrong side of the pond.
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Well, I can tell you a little secret. And that is that there will maybe come a sand scorcher rerelease, fully cnc machined. Not made by tamiya, but by me, I'm busy with drawing the parts. But it will take a long time to realise it
You know, thinking about it, this is what I expect the fate of the Sand Scorcher to be, more people doing things like this. Eventually the supply of originals will dry up, and people will start making/selling their own parts for it (as has already started happening) and nearly every "Sand Scorcher" you see will be made of reproduction parts, because only the very wealthy will be able to afford original parts, even when they can be found.
For a parallel in the real-car world, how often do you see a real live AC Cobra? Never. But you see "Cobra" kit cars and reproductions at every car show. I love seeing all the Hornet and Frog chassis "Scorcher-type things" that pop up in showrooms. Why not? Can't/won't pay for the real thing? Make your own. When the body on my Grasshopper gets thrashed, that's what I'll probably do.
For the record, I never had an SRB, but I did have an AYK Baja Bison (same idea, but way cooler) that I'd kill to have back again. I traded it for a Kyosho Raider (I know, I know!) because it was heavy and slow.
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Sad day for auto fans... He will be missed.
For the uninitiated:
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That's a TL01. Tons of upgrades available. Practically bulletproof. I love 'em, but I know there are differing opinions.
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Halfway through building a Parma Hemi Coupe kit, I can say that Tamiya's quality is astoundingly good by comparison.
The Hemi Coupe's Lexan bits are all varying thicknesses, trim lines are hard to follow, some of the plastic engine parts are warped, the chassis parts are sloppy, and the instructions, well, there are some sheets of paper with pictures and text on them, but they aren't exactly useful...
Let's put it this way: It's a true American car in the Ford Pinto and Dodge Aspen tradition.
I once did get a Tamiya static kit with no instruction sheet, though. Didn't need it; I was able to build it without.
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Thanks! I figured somebody on here would know. And I know it's cheaper on parts trees to include "throwaway" parts that you won't ever use rather than make tailor-made parts trees for each kit, but I just could never figure out why there was an extra unneeded precision part like a gear.
I guess it's the G/H/LB/MP's appendix; a useless vestigial bit left over from an earlier form.
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I was just reading the thread about the differences between the original Grasshopper and the re-re, and so I started thinking about the kit contents, and an old question popped back into my head. So I thought maybe someone here might know the answer:
In Grasshopper/Hornet/Lunchbox/Pumpkin kits, the gear bag has an extra gear in it. It's small, a different pitch from the other gears, and isn't used in any permutation of this gearbox I've ever seen. Why is it there? What is it for? Is there a reason for it to live among my spare parts, or is it just taking up space? Does anyone know?
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Well, I haven't been running anything at all, recently.
But my re-re Hotshot is the least likely to come off the shelf right now. It still has Tamiya plugs; everything else has been converted to Deans. The Lunchbox and Grasshopper are more ready for action, and more fun to bash with anyway.
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Rosin-core solder is correct for electronics. Just make sure you use a good hot soldering iron (40 watts or so) and not a $5 cheapy one.
Be careful not to get the plastic part of the Deans plugs too hot, or you can deform them, which makes it impossible to plug them together.
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Ooooohhh... It COULD be a Ford Probe i think.. ????
It could be, and is.
1989 Ford Probe LX. Currently in need of a minor repair for a coolant leak.
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Wow, I didn't think this would be that hard... a few more clues, and then I'll show more of it if no one guesses.
It's an American-Japanese "captive import," built in USA from Japanese parts and based on a Japanese FWD sedan chassis. This particular car has the naturally aspirated 2.2l four cylinder from the Japanese company, though this car was also sold with a turbo 2.2 and a 3.0l V6 from the American parent company.
According to Wikipedia, it was sold in North America, Australia, and Europe, but it wasn't a roaring sales success. In the USA, it's uncommon, but not really rare.
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With a little practice, you can sort of "double click" it and get reverse almost right away. I got my Hotshot to do a "stoppie" on grass doing that. (bad for the gears, I know, but my nephew's giggles were worth it.)
Truck looks great, and I'm kind of digging that J20 body - is that still available?
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I actually had to crop that photo of the dash so the logo on the steering wheel wouldn't show. It's not a Nissan.
Here's a little bit of the exterior, to see if that helps:
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Guess What Car It Is
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Oh sure, I miss out on the boring old Pontiac that I could have identified in my sleep, and now you've moved on to this.