Best Buys or Sells
 

What are the best deals you've had on cars or parts, or the best sales you've had.

I'll start with the near £40 some american chap paid for some random pit box Tamiya stickers off me :thumbsup:

And the £50 for a kyosho part that had a 99p sticker on it

I swopped a skateboard for a tamiya boomerang which started me off in RC racing. Bought a mike Reedy prepped motor for cost of postage.

Cat xls purchased from here on oople many moons ago
Quick clean up & she was sweet
Came with two sets of chrome wheels
Total cost posted to me.....£20!!!!!

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That's meant to read zero pounds right:confused:

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Lol I assume that's a real one not a model car though

No 1/48 scale :lol::lol::lol:

Yes real...........

I bought a Cat 2000 off ebay with all the gear. Reason for buying was I noticed in the photos there was a NIP Kinwald Dirtinator motor. I cleaned up the car and sold it on for £10 more than I paid for it and I have a brand new in packet Dirtinator in my collection.

losi xx4 with hops ups and nearly a spare car for £35 (this year)

good enough to win A final at iconic this year (should have made race of champions but due to poor maintainence wheel fell off in first two rounds :D:D)

bosscat touring almost mint in box with period gear (still got plastic on alloy gearbox housings 45 quid (arrived yesterday ):thumbsup:

last year rc10ds off gumtree ran once with box, instructions,clear ds body and painted porsche body, spare wheels foam tyres, period electrics esc,radio,batteries charger ect. I cycled one of the batteries up plugged it in and every thing worked perfect £50 plus bit of fuel money to go pick it up :-)

Best buy was a B2 from Ken (Cobra).
£35 with a broken shock tower and no gear cover. CML have the front towers in stock still and the B4 gear cover fits!!
It's may favourite vintage to drive now - even ran it at the recent TORCH national :thumbsup:

Sold a Ballistic Buggy plastic rear wing for £40 a few years ago...:woot:

How did you get on with the B2? :)

Got my hands on a mint Tamiya ta01 chassis for £3 at the boot sale and raced it at the iconic cup this year. Just missed top 10 overall too! More recently, just bought a Tamiya m02 donar chassis for £19, bargain! Don't think I have to explain how much like rocking horse poo they are.

Alright Dan,
H final - which was fair for the pace of the car. But did manage to out qualify 29 others.
Acceleration and braking are okay and hairpins, it's just medium speed and longer corners the rear motor just cannot hold on to the pace of modern cars.
Great fun though.

I bid and won some Tomy Intruder spares on ebay. When I spoke to the guy he told me he had included a couple of other bits in the auction. When I opened the box of what I thought would be bits I had been sent an almost complete carbon chassis car with lots of GPM bits which is now my Bling project. I was also sent the Tomy Fibre Lyte tub chassis which I am currently working on. Plus lots of other Tomy bits which helped to confirm I am a Tomy nut.

I emailed the guy to let him know how grateful I was he sent me the parts, some of which I never knew had existed.

My Tomy collection has now grown vastly, I should hopefully be posting up pics of the full collection over the next few months.

Bought a Turbo Optima for $275.00 about 4 years ago, pictures didnt say anything special about the buggy. After I received the buggy I noticed it was 100% unused with full original celebration chassis, sway bars and belt drive conversion. What really surprised me was the fact that it had never been used before. Is still own that buggy, nut now is the gold Javelin you see in my ID.

Picked up a Tamiya Terra Scorcher on E-bay the year before last year for £15. It was mis-spelt in the listing and in the wrong category. It came in it's original Beatties bag (for anyone old enough to remember) with practically another car in spares and period electrics, charger and batteries.

You can see the resto pictures in the Vintage forum on here. I put them up last month.

This has got to be my biggest bargain.... but also potentially was the cause of me getting into this whole collecting/restoring & racing of vintage R/C cars in the first place - so ultimately responsible for me spending £1000 on vintage R/C cars it as a result..... so perhaps not a bargain after all? :eh?:

I brought this Clodbuster from the local 'tip' or recycling facility for the princely sum of £2! (back in the days when you could make offers on some of the better stuff they'd keep at the side)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...n/IMGP1264.jpg

....Of course the Clodbuster didn't arrive in this condition... when I picked it up it had a cracked bodyshell, perished tyres & was in a right state - so it probably cost me another £100 to get it looking like it does in the photo with a new body + other parts (luckily the Bowtie grill & Chevy tailgate were salvageable) - & I did upgrade it with a few choice parts - ball races, ali anti-rotation brackets etc... A story that continues with almost every build I've done since!

I've had many bargains over the years, mostly due to being in the right place at the right time.
Firstly my Yokomo Works 91 Drescher Edition, ex-Jimbo Pearsons works car.
This was given to me for free by the local racer who owned it.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userima...09210016_2.jpg

My Predator XT, which was given to me again for free rather than being thrown out.
It had no body and the front diff had been removed so the gearbox top and all parts that attach
to it were missing. Took around 3 years to finally get all the correct parts to put it back together.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userima...04152006_7.jpg

Then there's a job lot of cars from someone's attic clearout.
Box on the left was full of spares, box in the middle also included a Porsche 959, a Rough Rider
chassis to go with the new in box body set, and a Holiday Buggy. Paid £500 for these boxes,
sold the Ford Ranger and Renault F2 car for £280, plus a Ferrari 312T body set which sold for
£140 meaning I got almost all this for all of £80.
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tc_userima...09222607_3.jpg

Latest bargain, bought not so long ago.
All with very little wear and the Blazing blazer is immaculate underneath. Paid £200 for the lot and the seller thought I was mad.
http://www.tcphotos.com/pc_userimage...01611500_1.jpg

Love the predator if you ever sell it let me know first or come across another one :thumbsup:

NIB RC10 Worlds Car (before the rere was released) bought for 120 Euros, sold for £850.

Partially complete boxed RC10 Worlds Car (before rere), bought for 100 Euros, sold body for £70, chassis for £80 and wheels for £50. Kept the other bits to restore my shelf worlds car :)

Ahhh - back in the day when a Worlds car was a real jewel in any RC10 fan's collection - now their 'special-ness' seems to have been diluted by the Re-issue?

Back in 2009/2010 I picked up this rather sorry looking Worlds off ebay for £23!

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserima...09112313_6.jpg

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserima...09112313_2.jpg

Which after a few new parts & plenty of elbow grease, looked like this;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...n/IMGP1396.jpg

Last year I picked up this lot for a very very very good price it may not look like much to some but I could get at least 6 times what I paid for it all for just one of those chassis
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...pskcadrqsp.jpg

The way prices are going I'd want more than what I paid for it all for that nip Protech body alone

Unfortunately it does, that's the reality I'm afraid. Look at the selling prices/trend of original NIB Optima's now.

Let's stick to Tomy's.....very very very unlikely to be rereleased! Very!

Yeah it's now about collecting what won't be re released peakys yz10 for example

I'm not collecting yoke stuff I'm hoarding it 😂

Dread to think what would happen if you had to make an insurance claim on all that stuff lol

Thought had deal of century this week tamiya Porsche 959 nib off Gumtree looks like we have been scammed luckily not lost a fortune as was stupid enough to gift 30 quid .
warning to others be ware

That's not the first time I've heard that I think they pop up on there a lot that's why I've never had anything off there.

first time scammed off gumtree to be fair

did get an almost unrun bosscat (so unrun its still got cellophane on alloy side frames )touring with period gear 50 quid posted couple of weeks ago so swings and roundabout

never the less will be more suspect in future :D

regards dave

Blimey, i remember being lapped by that shell at the nationals :thumbsup:

I can't see that happening again :lol::lol:

just picked up

pred 98
losi xx
"most" of a cat 200EC

from a local fellow racer who had almost forgotten about them in his "shed" do need some cleaning up but cat is a bitsa currently

also pred ETQ/XRS and Fabixx cougar MM recently from a fellow oopler from his dads collection

Fab cougar mm may be out at iconic 2017 if we get in :thumbsup:

off collecting today oop north pictures to follow in next day or two :thumbsup:

think at 80 isg cars now some may have to go

possibly in firing line
losi JRX pro SE

oh I forgot centro 4.2 and x6 is waiting in stockport for me !!

regards dave and Mitch (secret stashers of RC world)

80 lol let me know if you want to sell your predator at some point

more toys
 

as promised guys

collected this weekend from a gentleman from his fathers collection

added to the ever expanding portfolio of cars that I will never race or even run round the garden knowing me

regards dave

Good work Dave, I've recently acquired a Cat EC, but I want to get all the option parts for it. Wish I had my own Cat and Bosscat, sadly long gone.

Haven't bought anything for a while but last couple of buys have been pretty decent scores.

Not much over £100 for a XXX4 and loads of spares.

About £150-170 for a NIB sealed MR4 BX (Can't remember if it's worlds or factory)

Both from JAUCE.