Joe Handley

That sounds like it should be dominating the Replica Stock class.

Lol! That's one thing I've discovered that is kinda neat about the Tamiya FWD M-Cars and the Traxxas "1/16" "Rally" platform. If you manage to lay one on it's side and that front tire is still close enough to the ground, turn the front wheels toward the ground and punch it and the little things will right themselves!

I've got better fodder for this thread than the Merc, how about their '48 Ford coupe? That has more custom features in the box than the Merc does, some of which require more than paint and glue to look like they belong on the car too.

That first Kyosho car just looks basic, I barely rmember the second one, but I was just getting into the hobby then, the Mardaves are still available from what I've seen on eBay. That Tamiya is definately an early one, I think mine might be a second gen FWD chassis and it does have upright shocks on it. Looks like the tires, wheels, body, body posts, motor, and MSC were the same as mine (and other than the MSC, the same as M-05 too.) Wouldn't mind getting a M-05 or M-05 Pro, but would probably go with the Fiat 500 Abarth Alsetto Corso body (that would suck to try and fit on a DMV Title) to go with the Mini and my Traxxas Fiesta. Oh, and thanks on the lights too!

I'm using E-Flite's LED Flying lights, y-harness', and control unit through channel 3 in a 4 channel Traxxas 2.4ghz TQ Link radio system. They're designed for aircraft, but work nicely on cars and trucks, but isn't waterproof (I do think that is possible to do though ) I just upgraded this one to the uprights and steering knuckles off a M-05 with the tierods in the rear most holes and I swear the turning radius is about 25% tighter than it was before Haven't tried moving the rods to the inner hole on the knuckle in an attempt to tighten the radius more yet, but I'll bet the only way to get it to turn tighter at low speeds is to figure out how to add Dig or Cutting Brakes to it too. Here's the lights from the earlier pics being clicked on and off. I'm into R/C Rock Crawling too, so please pardon the cross terminology

Don't know why, but I'm going Model tonight.

Finally got all of the light and new wheels and tires on my R/C Mini last week! I can toggle the lights on and off at will, the wheels are supposedly based on a design that BMW used on some of the new style Mini with some sticky tires that are close copies of a Yokohama Autocross tire (AE or AO 32's IIRC)

I'd think that a Muscle Car would be a high perofrmance car from the early 60's through the early 70's, although the equivalents from the 80's on through the currnet crop of high HP monsters Detroit is cranking out of late could be thought of as such too. Now to me a Street Machine is a Post '48 car or light truck that has been hot rodded in some way beyond what a stock form of that would be. Seems that that description should cover anything built from 1949 on that has been modded to go faster, turn better, and/or stop better while letting those who see, hear, and feel it (as in tough or via engine created vibrations ) it know what it's purpose in life is. Street Machine could be really seen as a blanket term that would cover Drag and Land Speed style 50's cars, all sorts of suped up Muscle Cars and Pony Cars (all Generations of Pony Cars too BTW), Street Freaks, Pro-Street, suped up modern V-8 Brutes, G-Macnines/Pro Touring, even Tuner Cars and sport truck/vans that are built as performance machines can really be considered Street Machines. I'd put Kustoms/Customs/Lead Sleds, Mini and Mini Style F/S Trucks in different catagory(ies) though as they seem to have a whole different style than something made to go fast

Thos Tucker Snow Cats....were they made by that Tucker?

Looks fantastic and the color fots that car perfectly too! I have to hand it to Revell for this whole line of snappers, they may be simple kits but make for great models......and they're priced in the mid teens too!

Nice!

There's a local company called DuKane that puts these kinds of signs up, couple of recent favorites...... If Tomatos are a Fruit, Is Ketchup a Smoothie? Success is relative, it brings them all out.

Lovin' that color!

Depending on the age of the tooling, a CNC mill could have cut the tool if it's a modern kit.......now say it's a vintage AMT kit and the guy that cut the tooling is still alive and active in the hobby................................

If you guys think it's big in 1/25, you should have been around the 1/1's! I'm just shy of 6' tall and used to be able to lay across the back seats and really have fold myself much to fit. Quite the vehicle to learn how to drive in too, Dad always figured if you can drive one of these without issue, you should be able to drive just about anything

I want to say the "Fall Guy" GMC and the reissues of that will be the closest to what you're looking for.

I saw a 1:1 Gremlin that looked to be nearly identical to this one last week on the road, and it was just as clean looking as this one.! Only difference I could see was the shade of metallic green it had been painted (kinda like Polmolive detergent, only metal flake)

That just might be worth the cost to drive from here to Belvedere for me.......

That's exactly what I took of it Harry and whole heartedly agree with that message too.

It sounded pretty centered to me too, but I tend to lean to the left and have been leaning more and more since.'08.

That would make for another nice kit to bash with Losi's Micro Crawler and Scaler too!

I'm not sure it's a pro Obama Chrysler ad either, there is a pretty strong anti-partisan politics, just work together darn it! flavor to it though. I liked the Eminem/Chrysler ad from last year, a lot, and think this one is even better still. The Chevy ad was funny (honestly, I think it was a pot shot at the "refuse to buy a GM and to a lesser extent, Chrysler products because of the bailout" crowd), the 500 Abarth ad was very....wow (I won't lie, I kinda dig the little things and wouldn't mind one of Tamiya's 500 bodied M-05's parked next to my Tamiya M-03 Mini Cooper and Traxxas "1/16" Ford Fiesta Rally/Gymkhana car ), but this one had an air of maturity and "We Can do this!" about it with the only hints of it being a Chrysler ad was the tone that sort of carried over from the Eminem ad and the occasional new and partially built Mopars in it prior to the very end.

I'd say around .010 square rod as a rough guestamate.

To get it really low, you'll need to find another kit to steal the front suspension from and maybe flip the rear axle to the yops of thd leaves, which will alsp require that portion of the subframe to be notched.

That's where a hybrid is truely in it's element Harry. The engine can be shut off and the car can be run off the electric motor when in heavy, slow traffic, parking lots, fast food drive throughs, and such. What to me is the big issue with that Civic is the way it's hybrid system is designed in comparison to what GM and Toyota use. Their designs use electric motor(s) are built in as part of thd transmissions where Honda's is bolted directly to the crank shaft so the engine and motor have to spin each ogher when only one of the two is working instead of bring free of each other like the other two systems are. The GM and Toyotas don't have the rotational mass issues the Honda's do on top of the system's addition static weight.