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No no, 2000 was only like 5 years ago right?
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Pumpkin/Lunchbox - Body mount compatibility?
sublake replied to Ziddan's topic in Vintage Tamiya Discussion
Pumpkin body post mounting in the manual. -
Pumpkin/Lunchbox - Body mount compatibility?
sublake replied to Ziddan's topic in Vintage Tamiya Discussion
I actually just fitted a Pumpkin body to a chassis with lunchbox mounts. Your design as is will not work for the rear because both bodies are the same width where the rear posts are positioned, so the Lunchbox pin post will jam up on the sides of the truck bed. On mine I drilled two new holes on the sides to accept the stock Lunchbox mounts. The front Pumpkin mounts are mounted reversed from the rear and so they stick out further to the outside. Basically if you look at your 3d model the stock front holes in the Pumpkin body would line up directly over the eye of the Lunchbox post, so that wont work. If you didn't reverse the mounts and kept your current design but made the vertical post around 2cm taller you could drill new holes in the raised portion of the hood and do it that way. The taller post wont hit anything inside the Lunchbox body, but will be more fragile. For my front mount I bent a piece of wire attached to the shock mounts and drilled a hole in the center of the hood. A center mount towards the rear of the hood wont interfere with the Lunchbox body. Note that my rear mount holes are drilled slightly forward of the stock holes. I didn't want to get too close to the fender and make removing the body pin difficult, but there is enough room to align the holes if you wanted. -
Hello, new to the forum. Back in the 90's my first real R/C's were a Midnight Pumpkin and the TA01 Hummer. Over the years the were many other cars and trucks, but eventually I strayed away from land and spent some 15 years crashing R/C planes instead. Now that I have a son I decided to dig out my old stuff and see if i could get any of them going for him, should be easy...well not exactly. While I may have kept up with the latest in R/C tech in the air, I have not seen or touched these cars in the decade they sat in my parents basement. Immediately upon opening the first bin I discovered what happens to a Futaba Magnum Sport radio when you leave 8 AA's in it for a decade... so not using that radio. Thankfully the other bins had less toxic waste. Then I started sorting all the stuff, which is when I began to realize a problem, so many missing parts. I don't know how many bins were down there originally, but I think one has been lost to time. All in all I came up with 12 cars/trucks in various states of completion. The highlights for you would likely be the Tamiya Midnight Pumpkin, Hummer and M05 Mini Cooper, the Kyosho NSR500, Assault, Wild Dodge Ram and Ultima Outlaw, and the classic AE RC10T. Sadly the Hummer is Missing the body, a wheel and some other bits, so I think the rest of it will be sold for parts. The Kyoshos are mostly complete except for the Ram and Ultima Outlaw. Now to the main point of this post, the Midnight Pumpkin. Well it was missing parts too and the tires were dry rotted, but I wanted to fix that one since wheelies are fun for little kids. So I made a list of parts and went shopping...and the parts were going to cost more than buying a re-re... So I bought a re-re Lunchbox kit, wait a Lunchbox? That's not a Midnight Pumpkin. I figured I already had the Pumpkin body, If I get the Lunchbox I can run whichever body I'm feeling that day. So here it is all "rebuilt", ship of Theseus style. Obviously the body mounts for the Lunchbox don't fit a Pumpkin and some may cringe at what I've done to resolve that, but that Pumpkin body was already pretty trashed so whats a few more holes. Plus the music wire front mount acts like a spring and wont break like the stock Pumpkin mounts. And yes that is a nitro Kyosho Assault that I tried to convert to electric at one point.
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