Mrowka

Well, I *thought * I had gotten my mitts on the last available OTW126. But today got a message from the seller that they are out of stock. Thanks, anyway. Back to the old drawing board....

Thanks! I bought the last remaining item. Price was highway robbery, when you take shipping into account, but I was glad to pay.

I keep getting messages that shipment of mine is delayed. 😞 I am in the US, FWIW.

Help?

Meow?

Nobody seems to have these in stock and I am searching high and low. Let me know if you have any for sale or if you know of anyone who does.

Thanks. I have one waiting to go into my Optima Mid re re, if and when that buggy ever decides to show up.

Does anyone know offhand what the spline count is for a Highest servo? I think it's 25T but want to confirm.

I'd think about an FWD chassis if I could find a Lancia Fulvia or Zagato bodyshell, that or an Alfasud/Sprint.

FWIW, I bought my little man a Tamiya buggy precisely *because* I wanted him to have the experience of building it and working on it.

Are we talking r/c cars or Tamiya in particular? The market for r/c seems to be bifurcated. On the one hand, you can get r/c toys cheaper than ever, to the point where they are basically disposable. On the other hand, high-end racing buggies are more specialized and sophisticated than ever before, and racing is so competitive that the buggies seem basically the same. Tamiya, for better or worse, mostly seems to trade off nostalgia. Anyway, my seven year old loves his buggy, but that's mostly because my wife runs our home like a maximum security children's prison. No TV, no computers, no video games, no smartphone, no tablet. Plenty of painstakingly curated books and educational games. No junk food, no sweets. All the free range broccoli they can eat. So he plays with his buggy and eats the broccoli because he doesn't know any better. The downside of this is that, rather than let Sony, Samsung and Microsoft raise the kids the way normal people do, I get a child perched on my chest at 0530 AM, saying "Entertain me, Daddy!"

Not sure if this is responsive,but AMain is a legit retailer. I've bought many large ticket items from them, with fast shipping and unmatched customer service and support.

'Scuse me....

Should be here in Fargo. Let me know if you want a coffee.

Where? I am in Fargo.

My SWAG is that one gear is from the pinion, one for the drive belt, one for the rear differential.

They build car engines with cam belts, I am pretty sure they can build a 1/10 buggy belt drive that will hold together.

The existing Kyosho reres have 48p gears. This probably also will. Agreed that Kyosho box art makes their cars look "Much Fast! Many Speed! So Race!". But since I have never built a box art car, I could not care less.

I didn't have an r/c car as a kid, but from what I can tell, racing in The Good Old Days was unpredictable and fast-changing. The buggy that was the reigning car to beat could suddenly be yesterday's news (like when the RC10 showed up), and one weekend, some dude could show up at the local track and smoke everyone, then disappear into the shadows once more. Part of this was the lack of internet. If you wanted news, you had rely on whatever magazines were out there (and magazines are there to sell advertising, not subscriptions) or whatever was the word of mouth from tour friends or the LHS (keeping in mind that they are also trying to sell the stock they carry and not the competition's). Setup was also a matter of word of mouth and what seemed to work for your buddy that one time. And unless you had a bunch of LHS to choose from, you were stuck with what they had to offer, or you took your chances with mail order. So racing scenes were more local, or so it seems from here.

Order arrived today., FWIW.

No lie, I even thought about ordering one from the UK but seems that nobody is taking pre-orders, even.

Been trying to pre-order one here in the U.S.. Nobody seems to be taking orders. Very frustrating.

Has anyone mentioned the Lamborghini Miura yet?

It's not disdain, I just don't have the need or desire. Perhaps because I'm not acting put of nostalgia, I didn't have a buggy as a kid, didn't cut my teeth racing at the Bundleford Town Center, etc. Thay said, if you prefer a MSC, 27mhz radio, etc., then do it up.

Alfasűd or the Alfa Romeo Sprint. Not the Giulia Sprint, the little FWD Alfa from the late 1970s/early 1980s. If we are going to geek out over little Italian FWD cars, Lancia Fulvia, especially the Fulvia Zagato.