Help To Identify 80's Buggy

[Buggydriver]

Hi! I'm new on this forum, i've found it while searching on google some info about an old buggy i have. Looking at it is seem almost identical to this Joustra Fox, with white wheels, yellow roof (but mine has also a second piece of roof, like Road Winner, but also yellow), red shocks, and SAMMO wrote on the bumper, but mine is 4wd with two differentials and a shaft connecting them and the red body is identical to the body of a Road Winner and has stickers like (but not identical to) this one Road Winner. On the remote control there is written Road Winner, so at first i thought is was a type of Road Winner, but looking at the Joustra Fox confused me.

Hope you can help me on the task, i'll attach some photos. On the first i've noted some changes made later by me while i was repairing it. The plastic is old and wasn't very good, so it was broken in many parts, and the mounting where the front end and rear end parts were attached didn't existed any more. Also, the tires, especially the rears, were deformed because the car was not put on a plinth for years, and i substituted the rears with two wheels from a road winner. Also the motor was not original because the old one didn't worked properly and also made a white smoke.

Thank for your help!

P.S. My language is not English, i'm sorry for the bad form of phrases and if i've not used properly some words.

[Buggydriver]

So no clues about this "hybrid" car? Fox, Road Winner or neither?

Also, i'm searching for at last one servo, or spare gears for it, because the steering servo has worn gears (the car hit many walls when i was i child) and has few chances in surviving for too long. Any suggestions where to find the pieces i need?

[Hibernaculum]

Sorry, I have no particular info on this. I would suggest that the MRC Road Winner (which is known to many members) is mostly a fairly obscure model, but this means that clones of it (if they are clones) must be really exceedingly rare. I never knew (until your post) that the french toy brand Joustra sold a copy of the Road Winner. I had only previously known Joustra as selling their own original toys, not copies.

It actually made me wonder if the Joustra model was in fact actually the Road Winner (same manufacturer as the MRC one), just sold under different branding in a different market.

We have seen this happen before, such as with Mugen cars which were sold as "Varicom" cars sometimes, or as "Panda" cars. There were at times some VERY confusing crossovers between established brand names that made one wonder exactly who manufactured what. Most likely sometimes cars were just manufactured somewhere in asia, and shipped off and re-labeled around the world by different importers. Which kind of spoils the mystique of believing they were made by one particular company.

H.

[Buggydriver]

Thanks for the reply. Actually, on many pieces there is written "made in korea", but i think that it's the same for both Road Winner and Joustra Fox, which uses the same plastic body of the Bandai Interceptor, which was a poor copy of the Tamiya Hotshot. The car was bought in Italy, but i don't know from which brand was imported. At the time, rc cars were rare in Italy, even toy grade ones (i think this is a toy grade, right?) were not so spread, so maybe it was ordered from another country.

At first i thought to have a road winner because of the remote controller, but the SAMMO writing on the bumper left some doubts. Then i came across the showroom of this site and saw the Fox, which was more similar to my car, and has the SAMMO writing on the bumper, but the body was not correct and mine is 4WD... so the confusion. Maybe there is a 4WD version of the Fox? And does the Fox have the same Road Winner remote controller with the Road Winner stick on it? On the page of Joustra Fox there is a comment saying that it's a third clone of the Road Winner, but i can't find the second. Anything about it?

By the way, does anyone know something about what SAMMO is? I couldn't find anything about it.

[Mr. ED]

Sammo is part of the brand name Sammo Toy