Wide Boy.. Just found this

[max_crox]

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







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

Mark

[DCM]

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....

[Hog]

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.

[Garry]

My Frewer Astra Mk2 GTE.

[Nick Goodall]

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

[Elliott Hopkins]

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.

[Gaz_Stanton]

Originally Posted by Elliott Hopkins

Frewer in Australia...getting some 6R4s and 205 T16 shells made.

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

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

[DCM]

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

[terry.sc]

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


And the good old 6R4

[DCM]

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?

[Gaz_Stanton]

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

[Hog]

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!!

[Richard Lowe]

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

[DCM]

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

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by DCM

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

How much are they going to workd out?

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.

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by Richard Lowe

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

Helger still sell the Parma wide body Escort Cosworth

It would look better if they hadn't just propped some wheels in the arches.

[terry.sc]

Originally Posted by Hog

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.

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

[DCM]

6R4 would be ace....

Parma would be nice too.

[Hog]

Originally Posted by terry.sc

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

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

[DCM]

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