Super ally 412 Posted October 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Hudson said: Thank you Super ally, I just bought the last one from Modeltune... No problem glad to help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rwordenjr 1890 Posted October 31, 2020 1 hour ago, Hudson said: Thank you Super ally, I just bought the last one from Modeltune... Nice, you going to run it ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hudson 53 Posted October 31, 2020 I'm pretty sure it'll stay in its box, though you never know - especially if another Novafox run materialises (incidentally - I still haven't worked out if this will happen, there's another recent thread on this forum that discusses this and concludes (I think) that another run is imminent??). These days I'm more of a collector than anything else, I also have several original Foxes in various states. I'm really a vintage guy through and through but seeing as the Fox is the most beautiful Tamiya buggy ever, I thought I'd make an exception and get the re release 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Super ally 412 Posted October 31, 2020 4 hours ago, Hudson said: I'm pretty sure it'll stay in its box, though you never know - especially if another Novafox run materialises (incidentally - I still haven't worked out if this will happen, there's another recent thread on this forum that discusses this and concludes (I think) that another run is imminent??). These days I'm more of a collector than anything else, I also have several original Foxes in various states. I'm really a vintage guy through and through but seeing as the Fox is the most beautiful Tamiya buggy ever, I thought I'd make an exception and get the re release The fox is my favourite too,this is my never run fox. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AJB123 107 Posted October 31, 2020 46 minutes ago, Super ally said: The fox is my favourite too,this is my never run fox. Looks great! I can't really claim mine has never run... I've had it since about 1987 I think! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Super ally 412 Posted October 31, 2020 57 minutes ago, AJB123 said: Looks great! I can't really claim mine has never run... I've had it since about 1987 I think! This is my fox from 1987 as well,its with my local hobby shop at moment getting ready to run again. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mrowka 495 Posted November 1, 2020 How much power will a stock Fox/Novafox gearbox hold? I have an OG Fox but I am afraid to run it hard, especially with the stock hex drives. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AJB123 107 Posted November 1, 2020 7 hours ago, Mrowka said: How much power will a stock Fox/Novafox gearbox hold? I have an OG Fox but I am afraid to run it hard, especially with the stock hex drives. I've only ever had a standard silver can in mine. Almost all of its use was back in the day when it got through the 2 original aluminium pinions (the first one to the point it totally stripped its teeth), one steel pinion and one motor (brushes completely disintegrated), but the rest of the gearbox is totally original with very little obvious wear, so in my experience the gearbox is strong. The hex drives were rubbish - it got through 2 sets of those, the second being what put it into retirement back in the day. It's now been revived on NovaFox driveshafts (they're a straight swap as long as you reuse the fiddly original little metal c-clips instead of using NovaFox E clips, as the NovaFox gearbox case has been modified to make space for the E clips). Plastics will get more brittle with age though, so there's always a risk of parts breaking with hard use now. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DPR250R 55 Posted November 1, 2020 @Mrowka I just ordered a Super Stock RZ for my Vintage Fox... will report back how it goes. I asked a similar question and got some helpful feedback in the post below. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pinoy808 32 Posted February 25, 2021 Looks like another run: https://tamiyablog.com/2021/02/new-production-batches-of-tamiya-58577-nova-fox-and-58578-ford-zakspeed-turbo-capri-gr-5-wurth-tt-02/ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
