red bell cap mabuchi 540 motor

[jonboy1 2943]

morning peeps,

I was having a rummage in my spares box a couple of days ago and I found a mabuchi motor with a red bell cap. It'd not dyed as far as I can tell (I'd have thought it would be tricky to do that without wrecking the motor and there's no evidence of it being taken apart) so I guess it's genuine.

Anyone have any idea what it would've come from?

Is it super rare and worth a small fortune??  

[DeadMeat666 1675]

Since I figured maybe a picture would help with ID, does it look like this?:

 

[jonboy1 2943]

yup - that's the one - just googled it myself. I really should do that before posting shouldn't I?! 

thanks @DeadMeat666

[mtbkym01 4008]

That’s a cool motor, was the partner of a blue end bell being the endurance version. Basically the predecessors to the black Sport Tuned Motors. I’m not sure of the winds or timing. I think these were mainly for the early on road cars like the Racing Masters etc. Great find