Wide Boy.. Just found this
 

Looking though my Old RC stuff I found this. Makes me wana race my old buggy/touring Car.:D

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...x/IMG_0104.jpg



http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...x/IMG_0105.jpg

Now that is width!!!! (next to a std and battered 190mm body)

Mark

Is that the RS200 rallyX shell, if you contact Kamtec, Keith Dowsett might even have that off you to make a new mould, I would LOVE wide RallX to come back....

The last Rallycross meeting I raced at was the 1990 British Rallycross GP at Southend!! 3rd in the D final with a CAT XLS fitted with an Astra shell, a 19 Double demon motor and 1400SCR cells........

Ahh nostalgia.

The wide Rallycross was good fun though - imagine what it would be like today with the speeds we have! Still needs the Group B shells for those of us stuck in the 80's.

My Frewer Astra Mk2 GTE.

I remember everyone running the Wide shells on Buggies, then when the 1/10 Scale Touring shells came out i couldn't get my head around them - they looked SOOOO wrong being so narrow and long it just didn't seem right. I know they are a better representation of the scale size etc, but after seeing the wide ones for so long i remember thinking they looked really odd being so narrow :D

Some guys on Tamiyaclub are talking to Frewer in Australia who are still trading about getting some 6R4s and 205 T16 shells made.

Sadly no RS200 shells. I'd like one.

Elliott.

Nice. I still have a Pro-Cat somewhere waiting for one. :)

Or.... that's better, a brushless BX with a wideboy 6R4 for Tiverton! :D :cool:

if someone sends a 6R4 shell to Kamtec, he will make them himself.

I'm involved with discussing this with Frewer who still have all the moulds of the Group B and wide tourer shells (who didn't run the Frewer 405!) they made.

The shells that have been chosen for the first batch are still undecided. The 6R4 is a definite, the 205 was chosen because Alex (in Australia, it's cheaper for him to get the shells then forward them to me) wanted a couple of 205s, but as no one else wants them so we might get RS200s instead. We would also need to decide which RS200 we want, Frewer did the original short wheelbase one (see picture above) and a long wheelbase one to fit later buggies, which wasn't pretty. The idea was to keep it quiet and see how things go with the first batch, if it all works out start taking orders for others.

The 6R4 won't fit modern cars though, wheelbase is only 250mm. I have my own plans to make a bigger version for modern chassis if there is enough demand (as the cost of producing the patterns aren't cheap!) with others to follow by myself, I've yet to get a Kamtec shell I have been impressed with and people I know have had problems getting Kamtec to make shells.

Got a good collection of the old shells myself
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserima...06135658_1.jpg

And the good old 6R4
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserima...06135658_4.jpg

I will want a 6R4 and go from there, the Saphire Cosworth was a good shell to.

How mauch are they going to workd out?

I used to have the old Sierra (non-saphire) Cosworth that always looked :cool: . Not sure if Frewer made that though, think it was Parma if i remember rightly.

The 6R4 is a must have - needs the roof spoiler though to finish it off.

I've got some Proline slick tyres somewhere too which will finish the look and guarantee plenty of sideways action.

I wish someone could produce the Audi S1 Quattro - with the big spoilers front and rear like Olle Arnesson used to campaign in the ERC. Awesome bit of kit that was. Or the Lancia Delta S4 (Jarmo Lahteenmaki) - turbo'd and supercharged!!!

I feel a retro rallycross meeting coming on!!

I'd love to have a got at this again with modern cars :)

I used to run a Racecraft Escort Cosworth on my RC10 at Aire Valley :cool:

I would love for this to take off again, so SOOO love to race these with a 4wd and loads of power.

Price depends on quantity but at the moment it is looking at £15-20 per shell, which isn't bad considering it's a special order from the other side of the world.

Helger still sell the Parma wide body Escort Cosworth
http://www.helgerracing.com/j7parma/...bbody10377.jpg
It would look better if they hadn't just propped some wheels in the arches.

Not a rallycross size shell, but Carson make one of these to fit touring cars, Modelsport sell them.

6R4 would be ace....

Parma would be nice too.

Not quite sure I get what you mean about not being a Rallycross size shell?

what he meant was, they don't do one to fit on buggies but do make one to go on a touring car.

Ahh I see - mind you - you could say that about the 6R4 shell too. To fit one on a buggy was always a little bit of a compromise when it came to suspension travel and stopping the wheels clouting the bodyshell.

But then that was half the fun - gobs of power, and the ability to door handle with someone without locking wheels!

As DCM said about the bodies. The Carson Audi S1 shell is here http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFun...n&ItemID=24250
if you have a touring car for it to go on.


Ah, yes. The old problem of mounting the shell high enough to clear the wheels while not looking like it's on stilts. Way back in the 80s I remember running at Bury Metro and taking a mate who only raced indoors. His Losi had a Cosworth body on it, it stood out amongst the buggies and you could tell when he was running as you could hear the spikes rattling on the wheel arches as the suspension compressed over all the bumps:D

That looks the tits!!

I remember using lots of spacers inside the shocks to drop the chassis but still keep some movement - always used to run suspension stiff though. Wasn't so much a case of "does it work?", more like "does it look right?" :cool: