Associated RC10 Worlds Car reissue

Maybe not news, but news to me: You can buy a brand new RC10 Worlds Car.

https://www.teamassociated.com/cars_and_trucks/RC10WC/Worlds_Car/

Un-painted body or with the Brian Kinwald paint scheme?

In reply to Appleseed:

Specs say clear. So, do your own thing. Hell, get some Lightspeed hot pink and boil your nylon parts.

That's pretty cool. I actually raced one of those 20 years ago, before I switched to a truck. I can still remember when the "Stealth" transmission came out.

I want it, but I think it should be priced to reflect the tooling depreciation

I had two of the aluminum chassis RC10s (with stealth tranny) which I just gave to a co-worker to play with his kids. One of them had the long-travel RPM suspension front and rear.

And there was some hot pink involved in the paintwork.

tuna55 wrote: I want it, but I think it should be priced to reflect the tooling depreciation

Don't forget dollar depreciation driving the price back up.

I wonder if they are still made in the USA.

I'm kind of impressed that it's actually a kit- that was what saddened me the most when I looked into getting a R/C car a few years back was how everything was RTR. My favorite part of them as a kid was building them...

Would be a lot of fun to grab one and run it around the back yard to annoy the dog.

How soon till an RC10T re-pop?

I quit racing RC cars cold turkey to go road race motorcycles, as it would be cheaper. A couple years later I brought the whole load to Mimi who ran the track, told her what I needed to make off it and she unloaded all of it.

I kept a Losi XX buggy, and suspect I'll buy a modern 2.5 gHz radio, brushless motor and LiPo batteries for it from someplace cheap like Hobby King. Buggies are great play cars.

I actually just pulled my rc10 and rockbuster out of moms attic.

It's been at least 15 years since they've even seen daylight.

I want to resurrect them so my daughter and I can play.

Ashyukun wrote: I'm kind of impressed that it's actually a *kit*- that was what saddened me the most when I looked into getting a R/C car a few years back was how everything was RTR. My favorite part of them as a kid was building them... Would be a lot of fun to grab one and run it around the back yard to annoy the dog.

Yes on both counts. I don't really miss driving them so much, but I miss building things. Also, my dog is fun to annoy with this sort of thing.

BTW - Anyone here ever do any carpet road course racing back in the day?

Anyone remember Masami Hirosaka?

Whoa! It's a thing!

Classic RC!

I remember Masami being the only guy to still use a stick style transmitter when everyone else was using wheel controlers.

Appleseed wrote: How soon till an RC10T re-pop?

I still have both in a box in the garage, if they start making RC10T's again I might have to pull out the wallet. Preferably in Worlds with some TI upgrades.

The downside of an inner 10 year old with a 37 year old income.

Or me with a 36 year old's bills.

I had a friend with one. The rich kid. His dad built it for him. I wanted to work on it so bad. Got into dirt bikes when I realized they cost about the same to play with on the back 40.

Knurled wrote: The downside of an inner 10 year old with a 37 year old income.

Yup.

My teenage years right there

I just looked up the modern top of the line 1/10 2wd electric buggy. Man, that's funny looking to my old eyes. Here is the RC10B5M and RC10B5M Factory Lite:

I've said it before, but you guys who are into vintage RC need to check out RC10talk.com. I post in the Kyosho section as "Returning_Jim"

Tamiyaclub is good too.

At some point I want another original RC-10. In 6th grade I saved up for an RC-10 and Magnum radio. My friends all bought Tamiyas but I can't do things the easy way. It ended up being a good lesson about racecars. Most of the pieces needed some massaging to fit right and being the base kit some of the parts like the mechanical speed controller and bronze bushings were meant to be thrown away altogether.

Oh man... That was all I did for a long time. First a Tamiya Hornet, then found racing, followed by a series of RC-10s (Aluminum tub, Hot Trick red fiberglass chassis/springboard, CF tub, wacky fiberglass chassis turned around to run mid-motor with the gearbox assembled backward and saddle batteries), an original Yokomo Dogfighter, a Yokomo C4 and then the Associated YZ10 version (Did Cliff Lett have some sort of Yamaha connection?), a locally produced front wheel drive and four wheel steer car called the Bullet which used an RC-10 transmission and a few other bits...

Ah, and the road cars! Anybody else ever have a Compositecraft Lynx? I think the RC-10L actually worked better, but that was later...

If I had time, I'd go R/C racing again. But I haven't even been to an autocross in too long...