Sold by a local colleague (non-TC member yet). 2007 version, in good shape, assembled and ball-raced. After installing a radio gear with a lovely TAMIYA TEU 101 ESC, I transformed dummy heat-sinks to working headlights, with powerful leds independently fed by a pair of AAA batteries. Antenna was replaced by a flexible metallic one. Bumper width-reduced to fit the exact track, and shortened. The wing was fixed by two omega-type clips, so it is now adjustable, easily removable...and ejectable, in order to save it from hard crashes. Some tubular parts of chassis were covered by chromed pipes, cut from telescopic antenna. The only home-made stickers, including “Follow me…if you can !” are on the wing. A healthy Sport-Tuned motor will be installed, one of these days. HERE ARE 5 PICS. NEXT ONES COMING SOON...
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BeetleLover
Are they nuts on the rear driveshafts? what do they do?
Jorisschulte
I like your customized 'Shot'. What are those front tyres? They look very nice!
Crash Cramer
Cool idea on the Scotchlite over the axles, if it were the vintage car you would need that to help locate the flying dogbones. I am curious about where those front tires came from, never seen them in a Tamiya kit before and they are pretty similar to the Oval Block that are on the rear wheels. Thanks for helping us out with ideas for the HotShot.
TAMIYADDICT
Your sight is sharp, Beetle Lover, but there are no nuts: Just a short rubber tube glued on each shaft and having a flat zone on its circumference, where I applied a punch-made confetti of white Scotchlite reflecting tape. This makes the shafts more visible, and tells from very far away if they rotate or not. But mainly, this allows fun luminous effects when the car runs in the dark, by catching the smallest part of light as a cat's eye do. By the way: I also use this white Scotchlite tape to make stickers like 'Follow-me...if you can !', for example. (The Devil is in the details.)
TAMIYADDICT
You're right, Crash Cramer. The front tyres are similar to Oval Block rear ones, excepted their width.
I dunno exactly where they come from. I had the car with a front wheel missing, so I exhumed these complete wheels from the deepest levels of my biggest vintage parts box...wich is labelled 'unidentified' (but presumed tamiya).
Crash Cramer
Unidentified, Now THAT is what I should label my whole garage at the moment. Thanks for the update and I might find some of those one day, interesting things show up now and again, but can say with most certainty, the front tires(and perhaps wheels, can't see them all that well) are NOT Tamiya made. Chris
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