Hard plastic wings?

[DanB4]

I am now 31, used to race when I was 15 and I remember the in thing for all the buggy's (mainly the Cougar 2000, RC10 team and Lazers) were a moulded large rear wing, I can't remember who made them but they weren't lexan, they were hard plastic.....the side pieces hung below the actual main part of the wing and they were available in neon colours and black and white - anyone have a clue? I will search Google for a pic.

Dan

[mikeyscott]

Balistic Buggy wings I had them back in the day and I too am now 31 and have returned to racing this year

[DanB4]

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[DanB4]

Hi Mikey, must be a few of us eh? That is why Tamiya have re-released the old classics I remember drooling at the old Tamiya videos in the window of Beatties model shops when I was a kid!

So, where can I get a Ballistic buggy wing nowadays?

Dan

[jim76]

still have a dayglo pink one on my losi xx in the shed. they were ace. Not sure they are still available these days. Can't for the life of me remember the manufacturer either, been too long!

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by DanB4

Hi Mikey, must be a few of us eh? That is why Tamiya have re-released the old classics I remember drooling at the old Tamiya videos in the window of Beatties model shops when I was a kid!

So, where can I get a Ballistic buggy wing nowadays?

Dan

So true I did the same. Mum would go shopping in Sainsbury's and I'd be left in Beatties

Did they go bust?

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by jim76

still have a dayglo pink one on my losi xx in the shed. they were ace. Not sure they are still available these days. Can't for the life of me remember the manufacturer either, been too long!

You have a XX with a pink wing... Show me

I'm racing a XXCR at the mo and wanted a blastic buggy wing for it...

[DanB4]

I remember getting a black one as a present and I was so excited about putting it on my RC10 team car, sad eh?!

[DanB4]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

So true I did the same. Mum would go shopping in Sainsbury's and I'd be left in Beatties

Did they go bust?

Yes I remember when they all closed - I bet some people still have the legendary yellow/black bags you used to get when you bought a Tamiya kit/Acoms package.....those were the days

[mikeyscott]

Can't remember the colour of mine and I think it was on my XX or Cougar 2000

[DanB4]

This would have been the best thing in the world to me 16 to 20 years ago! I still have a couple of the Attack-R tx's.

[jim76]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

You have a XX with a pink wing... Show me

I'm racing a XXCR at the mo and wanted a blastic buggy wing for it...

lol, i'll see if i can post a picture at some point. It's the first XX with hydradrive from around '93
I also have a white solid wing on my RC10 stealth team car!

[Si Coe]

I've recently fitted the huge moulded wing from my old mk1 Predator to my B4 - looks odd but it works. However I also found a few hard plastic wings in a box at Bury Metro club and tried one of those - it split was I was making the holes (with a body reamer) and shattered on impact. I suspect the plastic used can 'go off' if stored wrongly.

Worryingly I've owned all the cars in this thread except the Hornet - my mate had one of those but I had a Falcon.

[DanB4]

The Falcon is not to be sniffed at, that also passes the cool test

I had a Boomerang and Thunder Dragon (nearly got a grasshopper) but always lusted after an astute or avante!

Dan

[jameswilkinson7]

Ahhh.... Those were the days!... I had a Falcon, then a hotshot! 23 years ago!

[Si Coe]

Well I thought it was great for all of about 10 minutes!
Actually it was about 2 weeks - I got it for Christmas, and then in January we went to the Model Engineering Exhibition (my uncle sold working model steam trains) and there my Dad got a Kyosho Progress.
Unlike my Falcon, which was a 2wd lump of cheap plastic, the Kyosho was 4wd (and 4ws too!) with lots of metal parts, proper torsion bar suspension and ballraces. It pee'd on my Falcon from a mile up. One run alongside that , the Falcon went in the cupboard and I started saving for an RC10......

[bigred5765]

roger the race controler on here i think did have some of the old styleee wings

[Si Coe]

It was one of Rogers I cracked. In fairness you told me they were pants before I tried......

[sparrow.2]

The Ballistic Buggy wings were cool. There was however another british company who made them and they looked even better once cut to shape a little. They had really square winglet to begin with.
They were wider than the ballistic or yokomo ones too.

Can't for the life of me remember the name of the company...

I had those wings on an RC10 Team car with Fiberlyte carbon tub, the RPM long wishbone conversion kit and a hydra-drive and later on a my first XX resplendent in Kevin Moore paint job.

I feel old now

[blue_pinky]

I've also recently returned to RC, about 18 months or more ago now. Only bashed when I was a kid, but recently got the old Tamiya Thundershot out to use at our club's vintage night races...

...which has been some of the most fun and biggest side splitting laughter I've had in a long time! It's not exactly racing pedigree, and doesn't really cut it amongst the RC10's, TXR1's and Optima Mid's, even with the old wiper esc taken out and replaced with a GTB, 10.5 brushless and lipo!!!...but it is very amusing to drive these days...and you need ear plugs to race when it's on the track as the transmission REALLY howls!

Anyway, when I got back into RC I got a B4, got quickly bored of smashing up wings and tried out a few moulded wings, can't remember the details of them, but I think they were intended for 1/8th cars but are pretty similar in dimension...and pretty beefy,

In truth they were too wide for the B4 and rubbed the tyres when the car leaned over, but they might be ok on other cars? Other thing with them was that because they are soo much stronger, they tended to break the wing mounts instead! Also, they must have been a weight penalty as well being so high up.

I quickly went back to lexan wings...still smashing them up...but not nearly as often these days as my driving is a little improved!

Some friends of mine also had moulded wings on their B4's which were a better fit, and less beefy, think they might have been Thundertiger wings...not sure which car they'd be from though? But they could be worth an investigate?