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  1. Thank you all! Some good discussion and Tamiyabigstuff, your reply makes total sense and I'm going to follow your advice regarding returning. When you want something badly, it clouds your judgement and you need some voice of reason to set your thoughts straight. Hibernaculum, I totally get what you're saying and I should've maybe word the topic better. Replace "to restore" with "to make a runner". I've been hunting for Supershot or a re re second hand for a while and actually haven't bumped into many re re that are for sale. Also usually vintage ones come without RC gear which suit me better. Juggular, very good points also. To me maybe the biggest thrill is to make something work that is broken but this time it's not worth it.
  2. Hello ladies and gents! First post on here although I have been lurking on the background for a while. I've been dreaming of owning a Supershot and I found one on ebay which looked promising. I tried to make sure that it didn't have cracks and what was included etc. and after brief messaging with the seller I made a bid and won it. Well, now that I received it I'm having second thoughts whether it's reasonable to restore it or not. So far I've found cracked front and rear control arms, cracked wheel adapters, cracked mech box and front gearbox. Also there's all kind of (wrong) screws used in the assembly. I knew that there were some things missing like the front bumper stay, tie rods, servo saver and that the most expensive parts that I would need to source would be body, rims and tires. I'm not too fussed about using vintage parts and can happily use re re parts to make a decent runner but now when I did some shopping basket calculation, I'm already over 100€'s worth of parts on Timetunnel and that's without body and rims. Do you have any suggestions what would you do in my shoes? Go ahead with the restore or sell the car for parts and try to minimize the losses? Then I have some questions which might make the decision easier. If I buy the re re front gearbox, do I need to buy also the re re outdrives? I know that I need to use e-clips with the re re gearbox, but can I use original Supershot outdrives with re re gearbox and e-clips? Super Hotshot doesn't seem to have screw bags available like the re re Hotshot does, is this correct? Okay, that's it for tonight. Thank you if you made it this far!
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