Schumacher Fireblade
 

OK, so I know it's only on the cusp of being vintage, but tomorrow I should finally get my hands on a Schumacher Fireblade to join my collection.

Now, having started racing back in the very early 90's with a Cougar 2 and a ProCat, I drifted away from Schumacher until I got a Cat2k, but never bothered looking at the 2WD offerings at the time as I preferred 4WD. Now I've got the opportunity to catch up on what I missed!

Question is, with the Fireblade being so close to the vintage cut-off......what's the easy way of telling which version it is??

what firblade?
 

the fireblade had stand up shocks and a laydown servo the fireblade usa the shocks were laid down and the servo was stood up hope that helps the fireblade 2000 s and fireblade were the same car the main difference between the evo 2 is a larger rear bearing and a redesigned front shock tower shock tower the evo did not come with a standard slipper and had cvd drive shafts not the blade type dog dones that's what I remember from when I was running these cars

Fireblade 2000- lay down trans, lay down shocks, lay down servo.
Fireblade USA -lay down trans, stand up shocks, stand up servo.
Fireblade Evo/evo2 - stand up trans, stand up shocks, lay down servo.

Other small features as well but those are the most prominent

Aha, ok, cheers.

I'm thinking Evo then....?

This is mine and the only pic I have of it, it was jimmy's old one so will get a clean up at some point and then probably spend the rest of its life on the shelf :)

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psr401v1dq.jpg

Thats an Evo
Easily the best version of all, coming from a team driver at that time

Excellent to hear, thanks!

It'll certainly help in the collection until I find another CAT 2k!