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Following my recent post in which I asked for help identifying a model : https://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/106844-help-indentifying-a-vintage-car/ And thanks to bsy2010 , I was able to built it back. Here are some pics and personal notes (as I found no instructions or manual except the exploded view). The "Old Lady" in her dust, just out of the package : Body is not original and its rods are broken. There is dust and dirt everywhere. One of the two battery holder has been hand made. And it seems that the belt tensioner is missing. Rear hub is back : It was far from easy to reach that point because of the belts. This kind of transmission is new to me and assembled and disassembled many times because of (but not just) : "Idiot, you have put the longer belt on the rear part", "You forgot to put the short belt around the main transmission axel", "Short belt is in place, you screwed everything but you forgot the longer one ...", etc. Front arms and knuckles. That was an easy part. Direction and upper deck in place. Shocks on ! The Lady is back on her wheels (that I forgot to clean). She needs a new belt tensioner (which is somewhere between UK and France), a motor and ESC (to be mounted today) and we will be able to have fun her and I Thanks again for the help in identifying this model.

Some hints about this car, in case somebody looks for it : I read (and confirmed by looking at the parts) that most of parts are compatible with "duratrax gp2"

http://www.colt.com.tw/files/EP TOURING.PDF WELL DONE !!! Thank you so much, I don't know how you did it but you did

Thanks for these answers. I took a look at https://www.rcscrapyard.net/ for Hobao, CEN and OFNA but no luck for the minute Still searching !

Hi there, I recently bought (again ...) an old car on second hand market for a good price (65€). The fact that the car has two belts decided me to fill my card numbers up and click "Buy". I received it, dismantled, cleaned, and looked for the model (to put my hands on the manual). And here is the problem : I cannot find the correct reference ... Linked to this post you will find some pictures I took : - https://stargate.enneade.fdn.org/lionel/rc_cars/IMG_20240725_114738.jpg I took it out of the box just after receiving the package. Note the old mechanical speed control with its two ceramic resistors. The parts are now clean : - https://stargate.enneade.fdn.org/lionel/rc_cars/IMG_20240731_090608.jpg Lower and upper deck chassis with the only two aluminium parts (motor mount). It is not carbon nor aluminium, but certainly Fiber Plastic Reinforced (FPR) - https://stargate.enneade.fdn.org/lionel/rc_cars/IMG_20240731_090712.jpg The two belts. I put a string every 10 teeth to avoid mistake. It should be a 179T (did not count the little one so precisely, I would say it is a 54T one but I can be wrong). - https://stargate.enneade.fdn.org/lionel/rc_cars/IMG_20240731_091229.jpg Some others parts. Arms, knuckles, and a 90T pinion (written on it, I did not count). The last important info : the car has two ball diff I think it is a "HPI RS4 Rally" but it is not as easy because : - arms and gear boxes (front and rear) are not exactly the same than in the manual - chassis shape is not exactly the same - what is this mechanical speed controller ? Looks like an old Kyosho ... Previous owner could have use anything he already had from an another car but the metal part protecting the resistors seems to fit in perfectly, like if it was made for it. - HPI RS4 Rally does not have two ball diff (optioned ?) - I thought about HPI Rally because the body is a "Peugeot 206WRC", but looking closely I can see that holes have been custom made (away from the little markers on the Lexan shell) - I am unable to rebuild the car with the Rally manual ... For example, there should be a mechanism to give the correct tension to the main belt inside the rear gearbox but the plastic parts are not meant for it. Instead I have the impression that this mechanism should be outside, on the aluminium part and is missing. Well, any help will be very much welcomed ! (I can upload more pictures if needed, of course)

Well done to the three of you, many thanks !

Hi there, I have been looking a lot in this forum but still can't find the answer so I am creating a new post. I have recently bought an old Super Sabre (the first RC car my brother had, a long long time ago). It was not really clean and shiny (no body and a lot of dust and dirt) but I managed to revive it pretty well. Of course, plastic did not get old very well, and some parts need to be replaced. Most of all, an essential part is missing : Where can I find these 4 "BT1" plate ? Or even better, is somebody here able to measure one and share the numbers ? Making new ones shouldn't be to difficult and I would definitely avoid the "solution" the previous owner found (he forced a second screw in the hole ...). Second and last question : are the upper and lower rear arms re-release compatible with the original ones ? I tried to look for aluminium replacement but they are not very well made and shocks are blocked (even if it is written that it is compatible with Hotshot, Bigwig, Boomerang, and Super Sabre ...). Hope to read you soon