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  1. Happy Birthday!!!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Thank you! It has been most happy ^_^ Time to break out the Ferrari and Lancia for some hot laps ;)

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  2. This was uploaded yesterday - not sure if youve seen it already. What a car!

     

     

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Basically my reaction the first time I drove my Lancia Rally :wub: Thanks for posting this excellent video!

  3. Happy birthday!!!!!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Thank you very much! I am hoping for a Tamiya, but not likely - oh well :P I hope you have a great day, too!

  4. It's my birthday today! Time for another 037 or something like that :P Maybe someday, it could be a 1:1!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      ... That would be a lot of cans of TS-43 Racing Green for the shell

  5. Lost my job today... The next Lancia 037 Rally is on hold.

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      That didn't take long - the Lancia, I meant :ph34r:

  6. More Lancia-related nonsense:

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    Stick a Toyota MR2 AW11 central monocoque in between some Lancia 037 panels, and you get some odd hybrid that is in the spirit of the original, but not really an 037. It is a little easier to find and service AW11s than Montecarlos/Scorpions over here, though, and serviceability is a component of a good rally car...

    And regardless, I would drive one!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      It might also look a little more like an 037 than this:

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      I feel bad for putting this car down because it looks like a lot of work went into preparing a car that still captures several cues of the original, but it looks like this model was built on top of a Toyota MR2 as opposed to around one, which was the point to be made.

  7. I should hope that nobody has to rely on MCI Racing's customer support - the company is a great service that serves many on TamiyaClub, but their follow-up and handling of customers is leaving something to be desired.

    As a hobbyist with custom decal orders and a Canadian (at least I think they are Canadian, but if that is true, why charge in USD, I ask rhetorically), I find this incredibly disappointing. I will start looking elsewhere to print my own designs.

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Thankfully, since then, MCI Racing has proven me wrong.

  8. Five years since my acquisition of an original Lancia Rally, I will be getting my hands on the re-re-release! This new model is in an affordable price range for me, and will hopefully be inexpensive to maintain. The drive shaft has me convinced the TA-02S might be easier to maintain than the belt-driven TA-03RS. 

    I sure hope this is the case, as I look forward to running this new one much like I did the old one:

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    I am beyond excited!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      A build thread will be forthcoming on this one, but not for another two months.

  9. Happiest of birthdays to you today! :D

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      And here I was thinking you would have another 3 SRBs by the end of the day :P There's always next year!

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  10. Happy birthday, good sir! :D

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Have to agree with Erich here, but only after he said it :P Nice eye!

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  11. I had fun showing a non-TC member the various WR-02 projects here!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      @JennyMo and @IBIFTKH, he is convinced you two are magicians - I believe it, too :D

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  12. A WR-02C rally team would have excellent parts availability; reasonable durability; and decent performance on- and off-road when set up correctly. At least, this is what I want to believe...

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Besides, just look at this thing!

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  13. If you picked my brain, you would be building a Kumamon Clodbuster; a Wheelie Hilux; and an Audi Quattro on a WR-02!

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Now a thread. Go figure

  14. Will I ever know the beauty of a Tamiya 3-speed, past or present?

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Nope - the Willy's Wheeler is coming back!

  15. Yet not found my mind... can not find the other ones for sure! ;-)

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      Have you found mine yet? Let me know if it turns up! :P

  16. I have not purchased anything RC related since January! Looks like I may be due...

    1. Grastens

      Grastens

      I purchased a used Striker and alloy wheel adapters. Now to wait for the next month!

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