New Find - Avante

[Mark Flores]

Just found and got this this morning.

The Avante is quite rare here in Manila, Philippines. I have been searching for years! Lucky me, I found one and in this condition!

The owner built it years ago and kept it in storage under his bed! Sad it wasn't stored properly. There are cracks to the plastic parts in the hubs. Rear dogs, a front camber link, all four drive cups and a wheel cap are missing. No driver figure but came with a technigold motor. Over-all I'd say as good a condition as can be!

How much I got it for?!?! $65 at today's exchange rate.

Time to hunt for parts! Wish me luck!

[Origineelreclamebord]

Just found and got this this morning.

The Avante is quite rare here in Manila, Philippines. I have been searching for years! Lucky me, I found one and in this condition!

The owner built it years ago and kept it in storage under his bed! Sad it wasn't stored properly. There are cracks to the plastic parts in the hubs. Rear dogs, a front camber link, all four drive cups and a wheel cap are missing. No driver figure but came with a technigold motor. Over-all I'd say as good a condition as can be!

How much I got it for?!?! $65 at today's exchange rate.

Time to hunt for parts! Wish me luck!

Pretty amazing find indeed $65 is an amazing price for it as well! You could've searched outside the Philipines though if you wanted one quiclkly, today's ebay and paypal rules give great buyer protection (sometimes even so much that buyers abuse it, at cost of the sellers )

[PsychoAtom]

Just found and got this this morning.

The Avante is quite rare here in Manila, Philippines. I have been searching for years! Lucky me, I found one and in this condition!

The owner built it years ago and kept it in storage under his bed! Sad it wasn't stored properly. There are cracks to the plastic parts in the hubs. Rear dogs, a front camber link, all four drive cups and a wheel cap are missing. No driver figure but came with a technigold motor. Over-all I'd say as good a condition as can be!

How much I got it for?!?! $65 at today's exchange rate.

Time to hunt for parts! Wish me luck!

That's a sweet find ... the condition looks very good from the pic.

You'll have to trawl the net for parts I guess ... but going by current NIB price on e-pay ... i'd say you have a very very good deal. Technigold motor alone will cost at least that much I reckon.

Life is great!

[mix237]

Just found and got this this morning.

The Avante is quite rare here in Manila, Philippines. I have been searching for years! Lucky me, I found one and in this condition!

The owner built it years ago and kept it in storage under his bed! Sad it wasn't stored properly. There are cracks to the plastic parts in the hubs. Rear dogs, a front camber link, all four drive cups and a wheel cap are missing. No driver figure but came with a technigold motor. Over-all I'd say as good a condition as can be!

How much I got it for?!?! $65 at today's exchange rate.

Time to hunt for parts! Wish me luck!

Swerte mo bro! (Your lucky bro!) There should be vintage races held here in the Philippines!

[jkyamog]

Wow Mark what a great find. I wonder if its my high school classmate who you got it from. From my recollection he used to own a Avante back then.

[Mark Flores]

Thank you very much guys!

Origineelreclamebord, yes I could have gone on ebay, but with the prices nowadays, i could not bring myself to buy one there. Wanted to look for one locally as really the prices of vintage stuff here have not yet soared. I also got an Optima Mid chassis the other day for $20.

PsychoAtom, yes, life is indeed great!

mix237, jkyamog are you in the Phil or overseas?

[jkyamog]

Mark,

Overseas. Where are you looking for old rc at home? Online or through personal contacts?

[Mark Flores]

jkyamog: both. once in a while some stuff come up in the local forums and ad sites. I also keep asking around old time racers if they still have thier old stuff rotting away somewhere. And sometimes I get lucky like this!

Here's the story of the Avante:

I was buying from this guy a set of Optima Mid Wheels he was selling for P250 ($5) at a local forum. I will be using it for my Optima Mid project so I asked him why he had those wheels, thinking that he may have more parts of the Mid stashed somewhere still. He said that he doesn't have an Optima and he just bought them wheels 20 years ago at a LHS as spares for his old Avante. Immediatley asked if he still had the Avante and lo and behold...

Guy said he had more stuff at home, among those he mentioned ... RC10 Gold Tub, Bigwig and a Bruiser! Hope he finds that one!

[mix237]

jkyamog: both. once in a while some stuff come up in the local forums and ad sites. I also keep asking around old time racers if they still have thier old stuff rotting away somewhere. And sometimes I get lucky like this!

Here's the story of the Avante:

I was buying from this guy a set of Optima Mid Wheels he was selling for P250 ($5) at a local forum. I will be using it for my Optima Mid project so I asked him why he had those wheels, thinking that he may have more parts of the Mid stashed somewhere still. He said that he doesn't have an Optima and he just bought them wheels 20 years ago at a LHS as spares for his old Avante. Immediatley asked if he still had the Avante and lo and behold...

Guy said he had more stuff at home, among those he mentioned ... RC10 Gold Tub, Bigwig and a Bruiser! Hope he finds that one!

Hi Mark,

Im based here, i'm from the alabang/las pinas area. Did you say he has a bigwig? Hmmm, you think he has some spare parts for it? I'm hoping to restore mine. I managed to tear open the front gearbox after a bad crash a few months ago. Hope you can post a video when you get your avante running!

[jkyamog]

mix237,

I think the Big Wig shares gear box with Boomerang and Hot shot, look in their manuals to verify. You can get a re-re of either and re-build your big wig.

[Swarm]

Nice Avante there Mark crazy cheap prices "You were Johnny on the spot as they say".

I have been looking for one of these for ages in that condition nothing really descent under US $700+

Hope you get many hours of enjoyment out of her

Regards Stuart.

[Mark Flores]

mix: do you go to the races?

Thank you very much Stuart! I'll try to get more pictures of her. I know we all love pics!

Was talking to the previous owner yesterday and he found the missing alum ball end, and one drive cup. That's one step to getting her back to perfect shape! Hope the other parts turn up!

[Cooltoys]

Nice find on the Avante...