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Originally Posted by optiman
Lol, just as I finished writting this thread I turned around and saw my vintage shelf queen Championship RC10, but is in inmaculate mint condition!!!! And although it has lost value due to the re release I dont feel like running it, buying a beaten up RC10 might be an option.
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Optima maybe, but I already been that path when I restored a Mid Custom to shelf mint condition to later race it and scratch the poor buggy. It not felt right for me... 
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Buying new parts for something that is going to be run is something I will never understand, such as sourcing new dampers because the original tops and bodies are scratched, or because a perfectly good chassis has a few scratches underneath, when the new ones will end up with the same damage after running them.
If you are going to run something then getting a tidy used example and sticking a new bodyshell on it will give you something that no one will be able to tell from a fully restored car when they see it on the track, and you are won't wince whenever you crash worrying about which overpriced new part you have just scratched. None of my runners have parts replaced unless they are damaged, considering how many I have it would cost me a fortune anyway. For example my Optima runner had a horrible pink body, some missing gears, no wheels and a bent front under guard, it cost me £25. Gears were from the cheaper Ultima gear set, the under guard was straightened, not replaced, wheels and tyres from my spares box and a repro body added so the whole buggy cost me £50. Nothing else has been replaced and as all the parts that get scratched are already scratched I don't feel guilty about running it hard and crashing it. Yes, they might have a bit more play than all new parts, but that is going to make no difference when you aren't concerned about fractions of a second in lap time and to be honest a lot of the really old cars were designed to run with all that slop in them.