Can vintage keep up with a modern car?

[Welshy40]

Its just the angle of the original picture and me using my moby to see the pics. Superb buggy and yes I still think this is the best one made out of all of the RC10's. Wish I kept my one.

[peetbee]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Also traxxas used delrin for their first buggy so also solid. But do agree the plastics do get a bit brittle the older they go..

You should have seen the amount of traxxas parts Dyna got through in our last vintage series, age has not been good to them!

And for this year's vintage series at Caldicot - details here:
http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54946

[Stretch]

Shockbodies are early castings. but late anodised finish. Odd...

[super__dan]

I still like my worlds when I use it every now and again.

How much easier are the shocks to bleed with the bleeder caps? That's the one single most annoying with the stock ones.

Incidentally the diff in mine has done numerous sat night vintage nights at York and an indurance meeting, I never rebuilt it when I got the car after 12 years in someones loft and it's still pretty good. Seems materials were better 20 years ago

[super__dan]

Oh, nice 'Team Moo' by the way

[DerbyDan]

Originally Posted by super__dan

Oh, nice 'Team Moo' by the way

Thank-you

To be honest theres not much advantage using the bleeder caps... I followed the instructions word for word, but only a small amount of oil actually bled out.... & the shocks are still squelchy! Maybe i'll have to try different techniques - but I guess squelchy shocks are a trait of the 'emulsion' type design. For obtaining consistant re-bound I didn't find I had a problem using the old ali caps, but I guess the bleeder caps makes that side of things easier? However they certainly seem more consistant at sealing the rubber o'ring - I always had one or two shocks spring a leak after a short while using the old caps.

Welshy40... you are forgiven For sure the wheels are the single peice 2.2 inch items from a B2/B3

Its really nice to drive actually - a little sensitive to unforgiving bumps/lumps maybe, which is a little at odds with a general tendancy for understeer (even on astro) But generally it feels nice and robust, & there's something rather satisfying driving a car you've revived thats 17 or so years old yet keeping the modern cars at bay