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Time to start my next project,

I got this one from my locad bidding page for a very fair price.
Alltough the seller stated that the car was used/abused and with a litte TLC it was possible to run again i was surprised when i got it.
I wonder what the definition of "a little TLC" is

Anyway, there is lot of work in perspective :




Broken front shock mount

It does look a bit second hand

Sorry guys but what is "TLC"?

What you have there is the early Mk.1 Rough Rider with the famous upside-down mounting of the dampers to keep the oil in!
Great find, and a great challenge to restore.

-Lars

stingray-63 wrote:

Sorry guys but what is "TLC"?

Tender Loving Care

Jonny wrote:

It does look a bit second hand

Well yeah i agree with you...it looked much better on the seller's pictures. Anyway i think it's a nice piece of Tamiya's history, even if it's "abused" the price i got for makes it worth.

larbut wrote:

What you have there is the early Mk.1 Rough Rider with the famous upside-down mounting of the dampers to keep the oil in!
Great find, and a great challenge to restore.

-Lars

Honestly i had no clue it was an original Mk.1 Rough Rider...As i don't have much experience and i must say that i really don't know Rough Riders I'm very pleased and surprised to have an Mk.1
Initially i wanted to make it a runner usinf re-re parts to make it work, but knowning it's a Mk.1 i might change my mind. Anyway, there is a lot of work to do on the car, the body is in a bad shape but still nothing impossible to repair.

• The front shock mount is broken (I already found an original Mk1)
• The rear rims + tires are missing
• Front tires cracked and worn out
• Motor looks pretty bad (see pictures below)
• both universal joints are worn out
• electronic box

Well that's already quite a good spare parts list...It would be easy to reaplace them with re-re ones, but i think it's more challenging (and expensive ) to rebuild it in his original state.

Rear tires, looks like Hotshot rims???


Electronic box






Body, the rollbar that holds the roof is broken/missing


There is a part missing on the left side panel, can be easily repaired

There is like a half tube of glue on the electronic box....




I had no other choice than cutting the motor wires in order to take them off



Front suspension



Take a look at the nice bloking screw, i don't think it's 100% original





Universal joints...worn out

At least but not last....The motor and gearbox...

It looks like the motor holds by itself with all the silicone that has been applied !


After a few minutes trying to take the badword motor off (i had to use a nylon hammer )i understood why.











Anyway know i understand why there was so much silicone and glue everywhere. I think the previous owner used it as a submarine

More progress soon

Oh i forgot....this is how i want it to look like once finished

Sweet another Manotas build You sure have your work cut out for you with this one well good luck and as always I look forward to the updates, Cheers Andy..

Yuck! That's a pretty manky RR you've got there
At least the mounting tabs for the rear bumper are there. I've got at least 4 gearbox cases with the left side tab broken off. I wonder why the LHS gets broken and the RHS stays intact
There are a number of difference between the MK1 and the later models. There is a topic on Tamiya Club that lists them. JR linked me to it, but I can't find it at the moment. Maybe you could be so kind Jonny?

Those UJs are not nearly as knackered as the ones on my Scorcher! Between the two of them I have about 1/4 turn of play! I replaced mine with re-re ones - they are stronger and more shiny! I think it is worth keeping any parts that are uniquely "MK1" original, but use new parts for wearing parts.

Oh, I think those rear rims are Kyosho or something like that. I initially thought the tyres were Grasshopper/Hornet "Super Gripper", but I think they might be aftermarket copies.

If you need any gears let me know. I've got loads of spur and final drive gears.