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Hi all,

It's the elderly motorised Tamiya kit built mainly out of the box except for lowered suspension & Aoshima 8 spokes. Paint is Saburu World Rally Blue plus pre-thinned clear from Zero Paints.

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Thanks for looking.

Andy

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Stunning build Ajay, I built one a long time ago, yours is a beauty!! Nice to see someone close to home too, I am just down the road from you!!

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Great build, Ajay, thank you very much, this brings back memories!

A friend had just one in this color and with polished, deep bedded rims, flat and hard as a board, very noisy inside, but very funny to drive!

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Super nice R5 Turbo , Andy !

There were a small handful of those beasts which made it stateside ; there were two in my hometown !

Were all of the Tamiya R5's the motorised version , or did they also release a detailled version ?

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ooohh still remember seeing these on the road , almost bought a 5 turbo myself , the normal one not the wide one like this ..

awsome build !! really stunning !!

love it

if you would have this irl like this it would be worth a fortune haha the simple 5 turbos are also pretty valuable these days

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ooohh still remember seeing these on the road , almost bought a 5 turbo myself , the normal one not the wide one like this ..

awsome build !! really stunning !!

love it

if you would have this irl like this it would be worth a fortune haha the simple 5 turbos are also pretty valuable these days

I have one :) not the Turbo, but a GTTurbo. Same engine, different set-up, but almost as fun to drive as the Turbo. Unfortunately mine is already sitting for 6 years now. One day....

@Ajay, Like the wheels, they look a bit like Gotti's.

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Very nice. I drove a friend's back in the mid 80's and it was dark blue. What a fast and great handling car. It may not feel fast today but it did in 1985. Great job on the build.

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