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I grabbed a sight unseen rc box for 20, it had old radios, chargers, onroad wheels and tires some still with life left some in the bags raco stuff and 4 homemade pan cars i thought i would share,

All are 10th scale ( wish one was 12th ) and 3 seem to use associated steering parts and pethaps rear parts, the nitro car ? Ive seen that weird cord on clutch bell brake before but cant recall where, 45 + years into rc will mess with your brain.

If you recognize other stuff please let me know, the electronics seems early mid 80s the fellow that gave it up was in his 80s and claims it all works, and that he raced it back in the day, i havent tested it yet, but imagine it will work.

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Oh and heres one of the radios,

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I owned a lot of odd ones never one of this model.

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Im very OCD ADD and jump from project to project i didnt really think i would build a 10 pan car i was doing a dad memorial 12th pan build and pans arent really my thing but i started putzing with these 10th pans i tested the electronics and much to my shock they work so i cobbled one together so far,  it remined me of a latrax i had in the early 80s so i tossed that bumper on it.

The previous owner had used the pins from tamiya plugs, he had shrink wrap on the female and mixed matched them so you didnt plug them in backwards, they were a bit nasty so i did swap in dean style.

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Everything on it was free from buying and flipping or in my RC junkyard, its very Jurassic but fun to run,  i have enough to build a 2nd one.

I splurged and bought a couple cheap used beater bodies to do a bomber rat type thing.

Ill post more pix when i get the bodies.

Cheers

b

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