I totally agree with you regarding how "mint" it should look. In my opinion, a perfectly vintage rc car, has all the parts that the car was built from originally. Scratches is a part of the patina. One other thing about vintage stuff. This is alot about memories. The search after that old child excitement we had. A part of the history is in matter og fact, that we drow these cars to the ground. We really had fun. Many of us had just that one car. Probably not the money for all the spare parts and changing old worn out tires. We just kept going and adapting to the circumstances. Many of us maked new parts for them, or glued it together to hold up only half a battery pack. That was my childhood. That is why I run all my vintage cars.
What a great buggy. A good friend of mine had one of these when growing up. I ran a Raider ARR and he ran the Madcap. I always thought his buggy was better but, I never told him that when we were kids. This buggy definitely has a lot of potential. I was able to find a NIB spare body kit with original stickers to help fully restore mine to mint condition. The only issue is the tinted window stickers which are already lifting. I don't like how it is 3 pieces but it is what it is. I"ve been tempted to lift them off and used the MCI black window boarders and spray tint it. I'm going to leave it for now and maybe in the future do that.
Wow, first time I've seen one, heard the name though. Thanks for the over view. Looks like fun. Yes run it! A fine plan for the restore - Good luck with the paint stripping!
My first car back in '89 and I still have it, although its now a bit like 'Triggers Broom'. Originally built with my dad the front of the chassis cracked on its 2nd outing after my brother crashed it front first into a kerb. I created an aluminium plate that sat between the front bumper mount and the main chassis, the car then ran like this until it was restored a few years ago. This car was epic, I had uprated the motor and had hi-caps at the time all round and would leave my friends Vanquish standing over our local BMX track. I wrote the Wiki page on this thing a while back. Couple of weak areas: Chassis prone to cracking around the screw holes at the front and at the rear around the gearbox mount. Gearbox ball diff was prone to slipping, using the extra washer kinda helped a little. Gearbox housing also prone to splitting along with the plastic long nut chassis connectors (replace with Astute alu ones). Also had issues with the rear suspension mount screw holes splitting, along with the tops of the front shock towers. some upgrades possible without turning it into an astute\madcap hybrid: Full Ball race Acto Pink or equiv Aluminium Gearbox plate Alu spur gear holder Oil filled shocks GRP Shick towers from the Astute or Super Astute Larger front wheels (Wild One) to get better turn in Universal Joints for the rear I used an old list of madcap and astute parts to creat a Jamie Booth type replica earlier this year, it came out a very capable car. I restored my original using spare parts and some of the upgrades above. www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=135568&id=15407
@@TAMIYALegends No probs, the amount of Astute, madcaps, and saint dragons i've restored I feel i know every mm of the cars! Keep up the good work, love the channel.
Yes! This was my uncle's first tamiya and what got me into Tamiya R/C, I got the bush devil a year or so later. This manta ray was a great setup and fast! Thanks for bringing back good memories buddy 👍
The memorable Madcap 🤩 hands down a excellent 2 wheel drive pocket rocket 🚀 as you mentioned, slap on some yellow CVA’s, upgraded motor mount, ball baring kit, a decent motor and you got a great 2WD buggy 🤩 I know someone who has 2 NIB kits if anyone keen to purchase 😎
I love it! I had a Saint Dragon in my teens which was identical under the lexan bar for red shocks instead of blue. I always thought of it as a budget Astute.
Oh my goodness Glenn!! This car used to have me DROOLING looking at it in the Beatties Model Shop in Liverpool wayyy back in v early 90's!! I thought this thing looked like a Fighter jet and was convinced it would do 100mph !! haha! I swear Glenn i would stand around in Model Shop for ages just drooling over this thing and watching the Tamiya Videos of it playing on the telly behind counter!! Really got me this Madcap mate!! haha! Wes, Liverpool, UK.
@@TAMIYALegends i don't know why I used cooked to describe fast, that's weirdo me! I was a kid when had it and made an "on road" version using clicky pen springs on all 4 shocks. It surprisingly worked great. If a reissue happens no doubt I'll be getting one.
I really like the look of the car and you can definitely see how its inspired from Japanese comics or cartoons. I also think you are right about putting a driver in too. It looks far better. Well, another great video and im really looking forward to seeing this in action. Absolutely Brilliant!👍👍
Same for me, raced one last month at the Iconic event, it broke at every opportunity. It's had some upgrades to try again next year! I was going to retire it but I love the thing too much to waste it on a shelf
Yeah, I think a lot of us vintage collectors, are hanging for a re re! (Madcap) Let's hope. Spot on, the tires are super rare. Cant find any for my bear hawk. Good to see a mad cap in mint condition. If you decide to put some oil shocks, yeah! put the yellow ones. Thanks for sharing!!! 👍
I raced a madcap a few times at a local event back in the early 90's, turns on a sixpence, now up for stud on a shelf with cva shocks and many new parts, even new unused front and rear tires, and a aluminum motor plate from a nissan king cab I used to have.
One of my favorites, got a mint and runner I put astute frp shock mounts instead of the plastic, I have a spare set of astute frp plates if anyone wants them
My chassis broke many times - always at the gearbox mounting point. I ended up making a new plate chassis from reinforced glass; in an attempt to copy my mates Pro Cat2. It worked quite well!
The body will come out nice with a bit of carb cleaner. Mad cap parts saved my astute back in the day with the dreaded front bulkhead weakness. Added a madcap bulkhead and madcap bumper and it saved me. If you do run it advise you don't put a too hot a motor in it. Those gearboxes are fragile without a slipper,
@@TAMIYALegends You could put an astute TTC gearbox in it Glen to give you a slipper. Gavin out of RC Kicks did one, but getting one is like hens teeth and you'll need deeep pockets.
I got one back in 1990. My older brother helped build it. It was a fun car. But the right rear wheel would come off. I had to recover the wheel 3 or 4 times from a water sewer drain. lol I don't know why it always headed for the gutter. I sold it in 2004 for $100 with controller.
Another great video. I still have one and was lucky enough to have bought a brand new chassis and some spare parts like the bumper around 15 years ago. Even then it was hard to get tyres. I never got them. Still haven't restored it as there piece that connects the rear shock tower to the chassis is broken unfortunately. It was probably the fastest Tamiya I had in stock trim
Glen You Keep Doing These Great Reviews and some how i keep Coming Across these Babies so Now Hunting One Of These Bad Ass Kits Old New ill Keep Dreaming But It Will Appear lol , all that said Honestly its been on the list of Wanted Kits For Months Now , so Im sure Ill Find One But Just Picked Up the 2011 Avante Today and put it up on the Tamiya Legends FaceBook Group Page as im so Wrapped To Be Honest to have a New Re-Re 2011, so NEXT is the Egress , Top Force then Sand Scorcher,Astute, Wild One,Hornet,Then I would like to get a few of the TRF type - and watching your channel just inspires me more and more - Love Tamiya almost as much as Kyosho as a kid growing up Those Too im going to start to collect especially the 8 Legendary Editions - oh Yeah Got to have those in the Rc car Collection True, Just to break up all the Tamiya Goodness , Like Ice cubes with my scotch i say lo cheers great Video as always and keep up the great Show we all Love it Big TIME :-)
Thanks as always for watching and leaving a comment Andrew 😊 Sounds like you have some serious RC goodness there my friend. You will absolutely love the Avante 🤩🤩😊
I was blown away when I hopped up my Madcap and drove it for the first time, Astute lol Pretty sure I have a spur cover, I am in Australia, let me know if you need it
Oh wow I actually haven’t looked for one yet, I’m guessing the gear cover holds the spur in position? Is that correct or do I need something else 😬🤷🏼♂️
Great project Glenn. This will be interesting to see what you can do to this almost mint car I like this car. This is a car i hope they re release, after the Dyna Storm of course :)
Very nice pick-up. Too rare and too expensive when they do come up here, but I'll keep looking.... One of my favorite box arts from Tamiya, but I agree it seems like it was made for a driver.
another great video Glen, loved it!! hey, what would you consider "the holy grail" Tamiya if you had to choose, i know that's probably not an easy question and everyone's opinion is different, but what do you think?? for me, although not that vintage ( '99 ) it's the Juggernaut, i had one that i just ran the crap out of and put the jug 2 upgrade kit in it and eventually........well i won't even say what happened to it, but knowing i had one and now don't, man that thing haunt's me lol !! anyways curious what you would pick. ps the blazing blazer i think would be my 2nd
I've always liked the madcap but never owned one. I wondered why Tamiya put adjustable collars on those friction shocks but used spacers on most cva shocks?? Looking forward to seeing it run!
I still have a Madcap, not been used for quite a while. Has broken C piece on steering which attaches to wheel pivot, on C sprue. Tyres are slicks now on back, parts are getting really expensive.
The body looks like its painted with acrylic the way its peeling off? And won't the gear cover off the astute fit it? Good video again! Keep them coming!👌
Hey 👋🏻 Are you 100% sure there the same buddy, once saw another RUclips channel spouting off about this, then he did a u turn as they didn’t fit the wheel 😬🤷🏼♂️ Would genuinely love to have it confirmed there the same 😊👊🏻
... and don't forget, considering any construction that came afterwards, the ridiculously complicated ball differential with three sets of balls (21 total) in two different sizes, adding up to a whopping 39 parts for that mechanical piece of art alone ;-). Trying to get one back alive as well, and apart from some scratches and a broken chassis plate near the rear suspension, the main issue also is a really poor paintjob done by the previous owner. Looking forward to your solution.
Hi I've just been given an tamiya fj40 4wd .Have you done a vlog on this vehicle ? The body is a little worse for wear ,should I get a new body or keep it original.
You can put oil filter dampers on it and I thought it's based after the dinosaur in a manner of speaking I could be wrong I thought maybe cuz your friend Gavin was thinking of putting a slipper clutch system on it which they thinks it would have fit.
I totally agree with you regarding how "mint" it should look.
In my opinion, a perfectly vintage rc car, has all the parts that the car was built from originally. Scratches is a part of the patina.
One other thing about vintage stuff. This is alot about memories. The search after that old child excitement we had.
A part of the history is in matter og fact, that we drow these cars to the ground. We really had fun. Many of us had just that one car.
Probably not the money for all the spare parts and changing old worn out tires. We just kept going and adapting to the circumstances. Many of us maked new parts for them, or glued it together to hold up only half a battery pack. That was my childhood. That is why I run all my vintage cars.
I absolutely love this comment Goran, you’ve nailed it perfectly 😊😊😊
That warm fuzzy feeling I used to get as a child disappeared for decades. I found it again in vintage (and modern) Tamiya.
Love the madcap. I hope they re-re one day. A classic from my childhood. Thanks for sharing Glenn 👌🏻
Thank you! The Madcap was my first r/c kit. I still love it. Please re-release it Tamiya, PLEASE!!!!!
Thanks for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
What a great buggy. A good friend of mine had one of these when growing up. I ran a Raider ARR and he ran the Madcap. I always thought his buggy was better but, I never told him that when we were kids. This buggy definitely has a lot of potential. I was able to find a NIB spare body kit with original stickers to help fully restore mine to mint condition. The only issue is the tinted window stickers which are already lifting. I don't like how it is 3 pieces but it is what it is. I"ve been tempted to lift them off and used the MCI black window boarders and spray tint it. I'm going to leave it for now and maybe in the future do that.
Thanks Ari, yeah those window decals let the car down unfortunately 😤
Yeah, cool special one. Nice catch. Looking forward to the project.
Thanks my friend 🤩👊🏻
How clean is that! Fantastic. Playing catch-up with the videos. Finally. 😉
Thanks Dave, glad you got to see this one my friend 😊👊🏻
Wow, first time I've seen one, heard the name though. Thanks for the over view. Looks like fun. Yes run it! A fine plan for the restore - Good luck with the paint stripping!
Thanks Nick 🤩👊🏻
My first car back in '89 and I still have it, although its now a bit like 'Triggers Broom'. Originally built with my dad the front of the chassis cracked on its 2nd outing after my brother crashed it front first into a kerb. I created an aluminium plate that sat between the front bumper mount and the main chassis, the car then ran like this until it was restored a few years ago.
This car was epic, I had uprated the motor and had hi-caps at the time all round and would leave my friends Vanquish standing over our local BMX track.
I wrote the Wiki page on this thing a while back.
Couple of weak areas:
Chassis prone to cracking around the screw holes at the front and at the rear around the gearbox mount.
Gearbox ball diff was prone to slipping, using the extra washer kinda helped a little.
Gearbox housing also prone to splitting along with the plastic long nut chassis connectors (replace with Astute alu ones). Also had issues with the rear suspension mount screw holes splitting, along with the tops of the front shock towers.
some upgrades possible without turning it into an astute\madcap hybrid:
Full Ball race
Acto Pink or equiv
Aluminium Gearbox plate
Alu spur gear holder
Oil filled shocks
GRP Shick towers from the Astute or Super Astute
Larger front wheels (Wild One) to get better turn in
Universal Joints for the rear
I used an old list of madcap and astute parts to creat a Jamie Booth type replica earlier this year, it came out a very capable car. I restored my original using spare parts and some of the upgrades above.
www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=135568&id=15407
Thanks for taking the time to share that Marc, that was an enjoyable read my friend 😎👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends No probs, the amount of Astute, madcaps, and saint dragons i've restored I feel i know every mm of the cars! Keep up the good work, love the channel.
Great looking project, defo worth giving the shell a restoration. Looking forward to seeing it run.
Thank you 😊
My youth. I need this car back in my life held together with meccano and a glue.
Thanks for watching Luke 😎👊🏻
Yes! This was my uncle's first tamiya and what got me into Tamiya R/C, I got the bush devil a year or so later. This manta ray was a great setup and fast! Thanks for bringing back good memories buddy 👍
Excellent thank you for watching and commenting my friend 🤩👊🏻
The memorable Madcap 🤩 hands down a excellent 2 wheel drive pocket rocket 🚀 as you mentioned, slap on some yellow CVA’s, upgraded motor mount, ball baring kit, a decent motor and you got a great 2WD buggy 🤩
I know someone who has 2 NIB kits if anyone keen to purchase 😎
Excellent thanks for watching Paul 🤩👊🏻
Nice one! Looking forward to seeing the restoration Glenn 👍😊
Thanks Paul 😊😊
I love it! I had a Saint Dragon in my teens which was identical under the lexan bar for red shocks instead of blue. I always thought of it as a budget Astute.
My brother got this back in the day, I was 10. He still has it. It was the first Tamiya I ever saw and for that reason is my favourite.
Yeah it’s funny how the first actual tamiya car we saw, holds very strong emotions for us 🤩🤩🤩
Love it! The shape is just awesome! Hope you can get it out before the snow comes!
Yeah that’s the plan but I really need to pull my finger out and get it done 😎👊🏻
Me and my brother got one each for Christmas back in 91 or 92 . He kept his stock, I had oil shocks, hot motor and battery and the avante body
Looking forward to this project.
Thanks Matt 🤩👊🏻
Wow! Ive never seen this car before!🤔. Ill look forward to watching this video in peace after work.😀👍
Excellent something new for you my friend 😊😊😊
Oh my goodness Glenn!! This car used to have me DROOLING looking at it in the Beatties Model Shop in Liverpool wayyy back in v early 90's!! I thought this thing looked like a Fighter jet and was convinced it would do 100mph !! haha! I swear Glenn i would stand around in Model Shop for ages just drooling over this thing and watching the Tamiya Videos of it playing on the telly behind counter!! Really got me this Madcap mate!! haha! Wes, Liverpool, UK.
Lol Wes, I think we all did that with every new car back then my friend 🤣👊🏻
awesome Glenn,I have the MadCap I brought in 1989 with a Bullhead 4x4x4 Truck and only built the MadCap but never ran it and is in mint condition.
Nice Glenn a very capable car with a few hop ups! Great condition and always nice to keep it original as it can be! Cheers👍
Thanks as always for watching buddy 😊😊😊
Nice RC,can't wait to see how it turns out
Thanks for watching my friend 😎👊🏻
My first real RC car! I had a 18 turn motor and it cooked!
Wow I bet it went well though 🚗💨💨
@@TAMIYALegends i don't know why I used cooked to describe fast, that's weirdo me! I was a kid when had it and made an "on road" version using clicky pen springs on all 4 shocks. It surprisingly worked great.
If a reissue happens no doubt I'll be getting one.
I really like the look of the car and you can definitely see how its inspired from Japanese comics or cartoons. I also think you are right about putting a driver in too. It looks far better. Well, another great video and im really looking forward to seeing this in action. Absolutely Brilliant!👍👍
Thank you 😊
The best thing about the madcap for me was the gear box, its very tuneable compared to other 2wd Tamiya's at the time, like Hornet, Bearhawk etc
I would love to see a Tamiya TR15-T. Super collectible and the first Tamiya Nitro. Very little content on this truck. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
Everytime you put a video up or mention a car i think , 'damn i had that '! Makes me wonder how many Tamiyas i went through over the years !
Haha 😂. Yeah I’d dread to think how many I’ve had and stupidly moved on over the years 😬
Great video mate. I couldn't agree more about the CVA shocks. They really make a difference
Ok so you need to find some 🤣👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends I believe I have a set at the house. I wonder what made Tamiya settle on Blue. It almost looks "Toy ish" with the blue shocks.
Love this car. Was my first tamiya back in early 90's. Fingers crossed for a re-re.
Yeah let’s hope so Andrew 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thanks for watching buddy 🤩👊🏻
Same here. My first build I even raced it a couple of times wih hi caps and ball bearings...
Same for me, raced one last month at the Iconic event, it broke at every opportunity. It's had some upgrades to try again next year! I was going to retire it but I love the thing too much to waste it on a shelf
👍Cool buggy!
Thanks buddy 😎👊🏻
Very nice matey ! Forgot about this gem . Never seen one run .
Well hopefully we’ll both see this one running soon 🤩👊🏻
Great video.
Can't wait for strip down and rebuild video.
Yeah, I think a lot of us vintage collectors, are hanging for a re re! (Madcap) Let's hope. Spot on, the tires are super rare. Cant find any for my bear hawk. Good to see a mad cap in mint condition. If you decide to put some oil shocks, yeah! put the yellow ones. Thanks for sharing!!! 👍
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment my friend 🤩👊🏻
I raced a madcap a few times at a local event back in the early 90's, turns on a sixpence, now up for stud on a shelf with cva shocks and many new parts, even new unused front and rear tires, and a aluminum motor plate from a nissan king cab I used to have.
Now that sounds like a lovely thing Gary 🤩🤩🤩
Tamiya! RE! RE! RE!!!! Åsome as always Glenn :)
Definitely need to do this car 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Can’t wait to see this sorted - always been a fan of this rare beast praying for a re-re 🙏🏻
Thanks for watching my friend 🤩👊🏻
I was going to get one of these back in the day.......saved up a bit and got a King Cab instead
I think you got a better car there my friend 🤩🤩🤩
One of my favorites, got a mint and runner I put astute frp shock mounts instead of the plastic, I have a spare set of astute frp plates if anyone wants them
Excellent thanks for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
Definitely order a couple of these if re-released, surprised it didn’t come with CVA’s. Thanks for the video Glenn ✊🏻😎
Thanks Steve 😊👊🏻
My mad cap was mint, never run, until I put a brushless motor in and killed the diff. Good news is the tyres are still in excellent condition.
Haha that made be chuckle 🤣
I suppose the gear box needing fixing is better than needing those dam front tyres 😬
ボディ、シャーシ、ホイール、、全てが美しい、、。
マッドキャップもセイントドラゴンも、このシャーシが合う。
でも再販されない（泣）
My chassis broke many times - always at the gearbox mounting point. I ended up making a new plate chassis from reinforced glass; in an attempt to copy my mates Pro Cat2. It worked quite well!
Was never a fan of this car but it's good to see it again
Thanks for watching buddy 😊👊🏻
The body will come out nice with a bit of carb cleaner. Mad cap parts saved my astute back in the day with the dreaded front bulkhead weakness. Added a madcap bulkhead and madcap bumper and it saved me. If you do run it advise you don't put a too hot a motor in it. Those gearboxes are fragile without a slipper,
Great feedback my friend thanks for that 🤩👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends You could put an astute TTC gearbox in it Glen to give you a slipper. Gavin out of RC Kicks did one, but getting one is like hens teeth and you'll need deeep pockets.
I got one back in 1990. My older brother helped build it. It was a fun car. But the right rear wheel would come off. I had to recover the wheel 3 or 4 times from a water sewer drain. lol I don't know why it always headed for the gutter. I sold it in 2004 for $100 with controller.
Thanks for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
Damn I never realised how many nice cars came out after hotshot / thundershot. Would defo get this on re re. Yellow cva defo made it better
Oh yes there never ending from the 80’s & 90’s my friend 🤩👊🏻
Another great video.
I still have one and was lucky enough to have bought a brand new chassis and some spare parts like the bumper around 15 years ago. Even then it was hard to get tyres. I never got them. Still haven't restored it as there piece that connects the rear shock tower to the chassis is broken unfortunately.
It was probably the fastest Tamiya I had in stock trim
Excellent Paul, thanks for sharing that my friend 😊😊😊
I’m hoping that this is a re-re next year as I really want one of these. Another great video 👍👍
Thanks so much for watching my friend 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends You’re more than welcome 👊
Glen You Keep Doing These Great Reviews and some how i keep Coming Across these Babies so Now Hunting One Of These Bad Ass Kits Old New ill Keep Dreaming But It Will Appear lol , all that said Honestly its been on the list of Wanted Kits For Months Now , so Im sure Ill Find One But Just Picked Up the 2011 Avante Today and put it up on the Tamiya Legends FaceBook Group Page as im so Wrapped To Be Honest to have a New Re-Re 2011, so NEXT is the Egress , Top Force then Sand Scorcher,Astute, Wild One,Hornet,Then I would like to get a few of the TRF type - and watching your channel just inspires me more and more - Love Tamiya almost as much as Kyosho as a kid growing up Those Too im going to start to collect especially the 8 Legendary Editions - oh Yeah Got to have those in the Rc car Collection True, Just to break up all the Tamiya Goodness , Like Ice cubes with my scotch i say lo cheers great Video as always and keep up the great Show we all Love it Big TIME :-)
Thanks as always for watching and leaving a comment Andrew 😊
Sounds like you have some serious RC goodness there my friend. You will absolutely love the Avante 🤩🤩😊
I always thought these were great looking cars. Hopefully we'll see a re-re someday.
I was blown away when I hopped up my Madcap and drove it for the first time, Astute lol
Pretty sure I have a spur cover, I am in Australia, let me know if you need it
Oh wow I actually haven’t looked for one yet, I’m guessing the gear cover holds the spur in position? Is that correct or do I need something else 😬🤷🏼♂️
@@TAMIYALegends yes, a screw goes through the cover and into the spur shaft
@@snappy1669
Excellent thanks for that my friend 😊👊🏻
I used to race these fully ball raced in Cheadle. Something like 30 years ago
Great project Glenn. This will be interesting to see what you can do to this almost mint car
I like this car.
This is a car i hope they re release, after the Dyna Storm of course :)
Thanks my friend 🤩
Oh I have a VERY special Dynastorm coming up soon 🤓👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends Ohhh, i am looking forward to that :)
I love that buggy
Me too 😊
Thanks for watching 👊🏻
Nice buggy, just did a restore on the body of the one I have . Wanted to have it box art .
Nice 😊
Thanks for watching buddy 👊🏻
My best mate had a madcap and I had a king cab I would love to see a brushless in a madcap
Excellent David I’d love to get hold of a mint KingCab 🤩🤩🤩
Very nice pick-up. Too rare and too expensive when they do come up here, but I'll keep looking.... One of my favorite box arts from Tamiya, but I agree it seems like it was made for a driver.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment my friend 😊👊🏻
Love your channel! The box art on your wall...are they old boxes? Or prints?
This car crushed it at the 2018 VONTS. Vintage offroad nationals.
Oh really that’s awesome Paul 🤩👊🏻
another great video Glen, loved it!! hey, what would you consider "the holy grail" Tamiya if you had to choose, i know that's probably not an easy question and everyone's opinion is different, but what do you think?? for me, although not that vintage ( '99 ) it's the Juggernaut, i had one that i just ran the crap out of and put the jug 2 upgrade kit in it and eventually........well i won't even say what happened to it, but knowing i had one and now don't, man that thing haunt's me lol !! anyways curious what you would pick. ps the blazing blazer i think would be my 2nd
Yeah I think it would be the Blazing Blazer for me too 🤔. Possibly the Top Force Evo 🤷🏼♂️
I've always liked the madcap but never owned one. I wondered why Tamiya put adjustable collars on those friction shocks but used spacers on most cva shocks?? Looking forward to seeing it run!
There not adjustable collars my friend, only look like that 😤
@@TAMIYALegends Thats a shame, I was starting to thinking what I could use them on...... a bit of blue bling! hahah!
@@TAMIYALegends they are adjustable... you slack the screw move the collar down the re tighten.....
Looks good to me👊🏻👍🏻
Thanks buddy 😊
I had those tires on my beer Rock darn I miss that car that was a fun car to play with.
Sorry bearhawk.
I still have a Madcap, not been used for quite a while. Has broken C piece on steering which attaches to wheel pivot, on C sprue. Tyres are slicks now on back, parts are getting really expensive.
Excellent thanks for watching Torro 😎👊🏻
The body looks like its painted with acrylic the way its peeling off? And won't the gear cover off the astute fit it? Good video again! Keep them coming!👌
Yeah I’m hoping that’s going to come off pretty easily 🤞🏻
Those front tyres also came on the QD Baja King.
Hey 👋🏻
Are you 100% sure there the same buddy, once saw another RUclips channel spouting off about this, then he did a u turn as they didn’t fit the wheel 😬🤷🏼♂️
Would genuinely love to have it confirmed there the same 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends ah then I'm not 100% sure then, maybe I saw the same video.
@@withcookie5583
Yeah I now know who else you watch 🤣👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends must be some second rate chanel I watched before I found TAMIYA LEGENDS. 😆
@@withcookie5583
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Nice buggy,can you give us an update on your plans for the channel.
I’m committed to another six months at 3x videos a week my friend 😊👊🏻
Hi glenn the tamiya astute share same part . can't wait till you upgrade . need oil shock bad .
Yes those friction shocks are awful 😬😬😬
... and don't forget, considering any construction that came afterwards, the ridiculously complicated ball differential with three sets of balls (21 total) in two different sizes, adding up to a whopping 39 parts for that mechanical piece of art alone ;-).
Trying to get one back alive as well, and apart from some scratches and a broken chassis plate near the rear suspension, the main issue also is a really poor paintjob done by the previous owner. Looking forward to your solution.
My first Tamiya in 91-92, Chassis broke and never found a replacement ... it's still in parts somewhere in some box.
I’m torn with this car. They really cut corners with cheap basic parts but thAt shell is sooo cool!
Yeah they did, it was always the poor mans Astute, but still a pretty cool thing my friend 😎👊🏻
Hi
I've just been given an tamiya fj40 4wd .Have you done a vlog on this vehicle ? The body is a little worse for wear ,should I get a new body or keep it original.
No not had that on the channel yet Ian, it’s not one I’m familiar with unfortunately 😬😬😬
It's the cc01 chassis.
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Ok got you, no not even seen that chassis in real life 😬
Mine is around 30 years old and looking tatty. Where would I be able to find a body shell for it?
You can buy a re production shell and wing from TBG on eBay. You can also buy re production decals from MCI Racing website 😊👊🏻
I thought the Madcap and Astute shared the same platform, never knew it was the Saint Dragon
Yeah only two car on this chassis 😎👊🏻
Will u do anymore ...raffles?
Possibly in the future Mark 🤔🤷🏼♂️
You can put oil filter dampers on it and I thought it's based after the dinosaur in a manner of speaking I could be wrong I thought maybe cuz your friend Gavin was thinking of putting a slipper clutch system on it which they thinks it would have fit.
Hello where can i buy this tamiya legends mug in the background
Hey have a look at my merch shop on here my friend 😊👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends i can find shirts,hoodies,stickers but no mug 🙁
@@TAMIYALegends oh now i found it 😁
Take a lot of care with the body cleaner. It can leave some nasty stains
Yeah I’ve done a couple of videos using different stuff, I’m hopeful this one will be fine 😬🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I hope you'll change it over to an ESC.
They need to re-release it.
Fingers crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Marui Ninja or Madcap? I chose Ninja and sold my Madcap a few months ago. I hate you lol.
lol it would be the Ninja for me to my friend 🤩👊🏻
@@TAMIYALegends Do you want to sell me your Madcap lol
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Noooooo 🤣👊🏻