Mystery vintage 1:12 Porsche 935 Turbo Martini. What is this??

[mongoose1983 3357]

Hi guys. Here back for a lil information...if anybody of you are able to help me with this. Here's another vehicle of the collection of rc cars I got a few weeks back. At first I thought "nice, the Tamiya Porsche", then I've been checking again and again possibilities and no, it isn't Tamiya. Considering the fact that I got this along other 1981-1983 Tamiya cars it must be from somewhere in that time frame. I'm thinking it must be older than that. But that is just a hunch, nothing else. The pan chassis feels nice (white plastic bumper not original), wheels and tires are really nice, too. The rear swinging axle is amazing, and yeah, that's a 360 motor in it! Anybody in the know? Is it a Kyosho??? The hard body has really nice detail. The bits look to have been glued there, so this must have been some type of RC kit.

I'll leave the photos below so you can see them, and if you can help me, well, be sure someone in the poor hemisphere will be smiling. And yes, I plan to restore this car in the future. Thank you all in advance!!

Thanks in advance. I wish y'all a good Thursday!

[scoobybooster 288]

Hmm been thinking of a Carrera Strukto at first glance, but the front of their 935 is different.

[yogi-bear 2419]

I have no idea, but its seems there were a number of model kit manufactures making basic RC versions of their 1/12th offerings like this. I have some Otaki 1/12 models and they definitely did their Lamborghini as an RC kit like this, but there are differences  in some of the parts to the one I have, so I don't think it's Otaki (plus I don't think they ever did this particular Porchse). Nichimio did a similar Porsche, but the again chassis and wheels are different.

Good luck with finding out what this is and restoring it.

[junkmunki 850]

I vaguely remember a company called Lectricar (?), in the 1970s that made cars with a very simmilar chassis to this. I knew someone that had a Ford capri with the same set up

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[casethejoint 311]

No idea what it is I'm afraid but I absolutely love it

 

Any chance it could be scratch built, or a bit of a Frankenstein built from multiple spares from different makes?

[mongoose1983 3357]

Thank you all for the help, ideas and most of all for the enthusiasm with my RC car here

Mystery solved!

It is a 1978 RC model made by SANWA in Japan. Here's some pictures of it.

Through these pictures I'm getting to know you can swap the 360 for a 540 motor in it!

And here the tail my car is missing

So far I'm loving it. The car looks great, and the parts seem to be perfectly good for a spin (i.e. tires, etcetera).

Let's see if I find some time and motivation to go ahead with the resto project.

Again, thanks to all of you. It's been also super nice getting to hear from you guys after so many years.

Y'all have a fantastic Sunday!