How is the Vintage 1/10th off road scene?

[Oscar]

Go see your local plumbers merchant/diy shop. Black O-rings are usually only 10 or 20 p each

[AndyF]

Thanks,

I have another question. Are all tyres the same diameter in 10th scale buggies? My Procats wheels are what I believe are the old size. Do they still make tyres to fit?

[HKP]

Yes, You can buy 2.0 inch tyres still from Schumacher. Modern tyres are 2.2 inches Diameter. HTH.

[Welshy40]

The other alternative is to buy a new set of tires and cut and shut, as its pretty simple to do.

Stu maybe your idea is the best, maybe we should have a one day eventer where we have pre 1990 in their own races and pre 95 in theirs as well. It will make the event more interesting wouldnt it and also you should get a few more people turning up. At least i know my prototype is pre 95, or are protoypes not allowed?

[telboy]

Just have different classes.

85-89
90-95
and 96-2000

run 2wd and 4wd in the same class.


I'm not that up on the years that cars came out, what year did the procat come out?

[telboy]

ignore that, I've just read the other posts.

[Welshy40]

Guys,

Here is a good point.

As most of the cars that will be raced are either rare and lets face it bits will be very hard to source, will the event be better suited for an indoor carpet race? or better still an event like at the regionals in nottingham where the surface was a green rubber surface.

Just a though, I mean why would we want to get them dirty?

[Col]

The previous series was indoors, on carpet and wood floor

[Welshy40]

Well in that case im in for this.

Telboy has the right idea and maybe we shoudl go with his idea. Im for it, and the manual on my zxs was in 95 yet the car was made well before that so im in the 90-95 bracket

[HKP]

Me too! I'll be using a Lazer ZXR which I guess is the same era 90 - 95..

[telboy]

the reason i said that is because I'd like to run something like a mantaray or topforce and send me back to my starter days, but they're too new for a pre 90's vintage class.

[AndyF]

I started with a hornet (showing my age). Rubber washes for dampers, 1 cm wide front wheels and the entire gearbox and motor unsprung. I see you can still buy them too.

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by AndyF

I started with a hornet (showing my age). Rubber washes for dampers, 1 cm wide front wheels and the entire gearbox and motor unsprung. I see you can still buy them too.

Hehehe a hornet, they were fun. I had a Falcon as a starter, but I spent a while driving my mates hornet before getting it. I also had a Lunch Box and that was highly amusing on red gras.

I think it would be a better event if they had at least two categories, and this would be more fun and as these cars are no longer being built and lets face it 1995 is 12 years old and thats very old in rc racing.

[Northy]

Right, are we talking about racing at York indoors on a Saturday night? Racing from 6pm to 11pm?

If so, lets have an idea of who will support the series and what cars they would like to run, as last year we only had enough people to run one heat even though lots of people said they would come.

G

[GRIFF55]

Can't remember what my first car was, but i know i have a frog, boomerang, pb mini mustang and maxima, cat xls's and an optima mid turbo at my parents house. There may even be a tub chassied ultima there too. Have to make time too dig them out and do a bit of resto work!! (like to see a vintage meet some time in wales!!)

[AndyF]

Originally Posted by GRIFF55

Can't remember what my first car was, but i know i have a frog, boomerang, pb mini mustang and maxima, cat xls's and an optima mid turbo at my parents house. There may even be a tub chassied ultima there too. Have to make time too dig them out and do a bit of resto work!! (like to see a vintage meet some time in wales!!)

Sounds like you could run your own meet with all that lot, just need some hired thumbs

[Medders]

I started with a Falcon, still got bits of it, and bits of my old chain drive optima.

I'll be in the vintage series again G, running the Procat. Lets get a sensible rule about motors as well.

[Northy]

19 turns?

G

[Medders]

14 turns if its a proper vintage motor

[Northy]

I've just got an LRP 'Pink E' off of EBay

G