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This one has been eluding me for many years. It was always just too expensive or I was not quick enough. To be honest I only got this specific car the second time around. It was listed on a local trading site, and I missed it. Fortunately I know the guy who bought it. Yesterday he approached me for a deal. A deal was made and now I own this beauty of a car.

I will take better pics once I get it home. Had to leave it at work

Only things still needed is to repair the original tires (Pajero tires fitted), a driver figure, door mirror and decals. Paint deeds some reworking, but not half bad.

Well done Kermit !

Before getting mine I experienced the same figures, being too late for bidding or ringing the seller on local adverts or simply others that were way too expensive for me.

After almost 7 month serching I finally found one in a local trading site.

I always thought that having such a Hi Lux is a must for Tamiya passionates and collector's !

Anyway yours looks in a pretty good shape ! Looking forward to see more pics of that beauty.

Manotas

a chance.
It looks in a good condition

Thanks guys! It was a very exiting day for me. I have been trying to get one of these for over 7 years. I do agree that no collection is complete without it. I have the pair now! Not too worried about the Bruiser and the Mountaineer. As long as I have my Hilux and Blazer, I am happy.

The car was restored before I got my hands on it, although there was very little wrong with it before the restoration. I need to repair the original tires, find a side mirror and decals.

Well done finding a real rare Tamiya in great shape as well, in South Africa these are even harder to find. I agree with you that the Bruiser and Mountaineer does not have the same scale appearance and borders on been toy like compared. I do like the Pajero tires almost better than the originals.
Marius

Think mine's got Hummer tyres on it. They look the part, but the rubber is a bit hard

I think hard or soft tires makes no difference. With a suspension like this they could have made the tires out of wood and have the same result

Ha yes, they made the suspension really hard so that it wouldn't move too much & break the non-sliding propshafts! - the "give" is achieved by rubber mounting the gearbox on a floppy ally plate, but even then the prop grubscrews keep coming undone!

I was actually thinking the hard tyres have no grip, but your point is probably a better one!

eddrick wrote:

Ha yes, they made the suspension really hard so that it wouldn't move too much & break the non-sliding propshafts! - the "give" is achieved by rubber mounting the gearbox on a floppy ally plate, but even then the prop grubscrews keep coming undone!

I was actually thinking the hard tyres have no grip, but your point is probably a better one!

The prop shafts are actually sliding ones on the Hilux

I had to pick the manual up & double check.... You're right, that's what's shown in the manual.
Mine aren't, & they don't look like home-made ones to me. I wonder if there's an early/late differences thing going on with them like the SRBs?
Still, at least that explains some of the problems mine has with rock-hard suspension & always-loose UJs!