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Updated wheels. Some RCLions 1.9" beadlock alloy wheels from Amazon, about $30 US depending on seller.

They always say you should not meet your childhood heroes. All the new cool videos with the old guys, of which I am one. In my head they are still the cool photos in 1988 RC Car Action as a kid. I envision them leaving the races with 15 trophy girls in tow to a hot rave on the beach. Fast forward to today, all nice guys, but I think middle (old) age schlubs towing the company line to make a living just like me. My cool image is gone. I have been doing the vintage thing for a long time but actually for me all the hype now has changed it. I miss when it was a small group and no one wanted the cars. That made it interesting to hunt for the parts and have something unique. It seems a bit too easy and mainstream for me. So I guess I am ready for the RC10 "burn out" edition mentioned above.

Awesome, that gray servo tape is the same tape that Cliff Lett ran June 21st 1987 on a secret prototype at a secret race. Clearly this should retail for $539.

I'm waiting for the "random" edition. They just mismatch and throw a complete kit but made of all different ones. You may get a Graphite Kinwald Green Edition with Stealth. Maybe a Metallic Stealth Graphite Kinwald Masami edition. You get no manual since it is full of mistakes anyways and the price is random at checkout too. Driveshafts still too short. Limited to 5000 produced or whatever number they sell.

I can't think of a competitive racing buggy 4wd or 2wd that is easier to service and basic extra parts for than the 870C. I traded my Turbo Optima Mid SE back around 1988 for one and never looked back. I went on to win my first race trophy with an 870C. That said the Optima Mid is an amazing car as well, but 870C was just so simple to work on, it wins for me. I wish all 4wd cars had stayed on this path from a front to back duplicate parts and easy removable drive train with just a few screws.

From what I just read the BZ in my bin would be better suited to this application due to more torque. I will make the swap.

Blitzer/Monster Beetle body lines up perfect as well. I'd adjust the front bumper to lower front nose down a bit, some magnet body posts and done. This is just quickly sitting it on there for illustration.

One was engineered by engineers, and is an original polished design that works flawlessly. The other vehicle in question was a copied design and not even copied well by some grade school kids. It has mismatched hardware, some of which looks like it actually came from the hardware store. The manual is loaded with mistakes, you have to guess how to fix multiple fit and finish problems, the driveshafts are too short, the belt skips, the body rubs on everything and on and on. You decide which one is which

I agree, I think some dismiss it because they try to view it a bit too much as a crawler. Viewed as a sort of trophy truck, updated CC-01, sort of crawler, sort of something else, it is perfect

Yeah Racing lower links, steering links, and CC-02 Bronco wheels with a bit of paint. Integy aluminum 86mm CC-02 shocks. Uses stock body posts cut down and fits just right.

I bought a used car that smelled so bad of Cigarette smoke and the guy through in a couple empty Cigarette packages for packing material for good measure.

I hate selling on eBay now because everyone became a packaging critic. I'm selling you an RC car that you just bought from me for half off retail, Ebay will take another 20% and I am supposed to pack it in a vault, surrounded by endless bubble wrap and goose feathers sealed with a unicorn kiss. Oh, and please offer free shipping, that costs me $30 these days. And then all these videos of some dude who bought this rare 40 year old used RC car and oh no, look at this the chassis has a scratch in it just feeds the insanity. Anyone ever watch the original Associated videos of RC10 chassis production with them all stacked on top of one another after anodizing thrown in the box would know real men like scratches. Rant off, that felt good