Could anyone tell me what car this is

[joelvardy]

it is a carpet car I think... :confused: it has a tamiya motor on it

could you tell me what it is? :confused:

the pictures are here: :cool: http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4200089/tm.htm

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[Holeshot101]

Could be a tamiya, maybe an associated.

[joelvardy]

yer I don't know what it is do you think I could restore it to look realy nice

[Grizzbob]

I could be wrong, but it looks an awful lot like the 1/12 scale Tamiya pan car I had as my first kit. If I'm right, it came with a Porsche 962 body shell(was pretty cool looking), & with a 6-cell stick battery pack, it was VERY quick, but it could only be driven easily on a carpet track(believe me I tried mine on EVERYTHING, & only could keep it under control on a carpet track).... :cool:

[InspGadgt]

Given the solid aluminium 1 piece pod that looks more like a Delta 1/12th then a Tamiya Road Wizard.

[minijosh]

Not a road wizard at all. I doubt it's a Tamiya by the looks of it and I know my Tamiya's. Please take some sand paper to the chassis and all the metal bits and clean it up so we can see what it really is.

[jck_ahk]

I have a road wizard that is not it, that sure looks like a tamiya mech. speed controler

[Grizzbob]

No, it's not a Road Wizard, but Tamiya sold other onroad kits that were much more like the picture in this thread. My kit was not a Road Wizard(in fact, weren't all Road Wizards 1/10 scale?) This, if it's the same as what I had, is a 1/12 scale kit(even though it uses 6 cell batteries).

[mook]

im lookin at the resistor & msc

to me it looks tamiya

my 0.2

[InspGadgt]

A lot of cars used the Tamiya MSC in the early days of RC

[InspGadgt]

I have the Tamiya 1/12th scale 956 kit which should pre-date the 962. It's definately not that kit. The orange/red wheels and 1 piece rear pod design is more like how the Delta cars were built.

[InspGadgt]

Yeah your right the Road Wizard was 1/10th scale...but the 1/12th scale cars were very similar in design so I tend to lump them all in as one...

[InspGadgt]

Well Griz I pulled my Tamiya out of storage and took a look at it after looking at the pics again. It appears the wheels were painted that color so I went looking again and I think your right...it is the Tamiya. But it looks like someone scratch built a replacement chassis for it.

[Grizzbob]

Not surprising, I think the original was fiberglass, so it'd be pretty easy to cut a replacement of you know the shape... :cool:

[InspGadgt]

Yeah the original is a black fiberglass piece that has a few more cut outs in it to make it lighter then the one in the pic.