Retired re-re thundershot (tshot1)

Long overdue and apologies to bloodclod for not putting these pics up earlier.

The close-ups show bloodclod's alloy mod that fits over the A5 part, making it effectively bullet proof!
Just to say i'm glad I bought a couple of spares for my others!

UPDATE 28/12/2008
After two and a half years my Thundershot has finally failed, the pinion sharpened to a point but it was the Superstock motor that has eventually seized!
A full strip down, new bearings and a superstock BZ are poised!

UPDATE 26/02/2009
New pinion (steel this time) and 14T motor installed, thats it. 'RAT' Tshot continues until next breakage!

UPDATE 01/03/2009
Lost a wheel nut, bent the front anti-roll bar and snapped a front drive shaft, so will be stripped and cleaned after all!

UPDATE 28/12/2009
No! will definitely run until something major gives, as its my main runner I dont thrash it as much as I used to,
from second picture down its all current pics

UPDATE 29/08/2010
My 14T pink motor ceased up today, replaced with a new tamiya 23T RZ super stock.
Everything going fine for five minutes then while turning over a pot hole the buggy cartwheeled multiple times.
Once up and running a rear wheel suffered plastic fatigue!
All sorted now!

UPDATE 01/09/2010
The other rear wheel broke!

UPDATE 21/09/2010
Finally painted the driver! looks much better.....

UPDATE 25/12/2011
Clean up, some new pics and new rear lower arms, drive shafts, joint cups and tyres (kept the bald ones for on-road!)

UPDATE 22/08/2014
With other Tshot resto's taking centre stage this year, I have decided to 'retire' my first Tshot re-re build of 2006
to the shelf and moved it to restored (it could still be run if needed!)

UPDATE 21/07/2018
Tidied up text above, four years since retirement, 13 years since release, still hoping for another production run or chassis re-release

UPDATE 15/11/2020
Calculated it has approx. 60-75 hours runtime up until retirement