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Nice work!
I should have not looked into this thread... Seems I want a Hotshot or Super Hotshot now :-D

silvertriple wrote:

Nice work!
I should have not looked into this thread... Seems I want a Hotshot or Super Hotshot now :-D


For me this is one of Tamiya’s iconic cars. I think in the ‘80’s they were competitive rac cars for about 5 minutes until the RC10 came along.
But obviously this build was a personal one for me. It interesting to see what I’d done to car and what extra parts I’d bought for it.
Even today I realised I have  2 metal brackets I’d attached to the front lower suspension arms. I have no idea why.
I would recommend getting a Hotshot though, they are great fun cars.
 

Al for the body, you can use aceton free nail cleaner. (Lidl does one). With coton sticks.

Thanks Flo.

More detective work on my old Hotshot.
After the rebuild I had these 2 brackets left over. I knew they were on the front lower wishbones. But they just weren’t doing anything.
I don’t even remember buying them, mind you that was 36 years ago !!!
It wasn’t a huge leap to consider that I may have been considering fitting independent front shocks.
And yes after a look at the Super Shot manual, there they were.
I clearly never bought a set of shocks and for some reason I didn’t but the shock tower brackets either.

They look avante parts. Like front sway bar parts

Hi Flo, they can’t be I would have bought these in ‘85 - ‘86 and the Avante was out then.
I’m pretty certain they are from the Super Shot.

They do resemble sway bar mounts , interesting....

I have these parts on the avante. Tamiya uses some parts from other cars. Very interesting Al:)

From the Super Shot build manual.
It wouldn’t be the first time Tamiya recycled parts.

The Avanti came out in ‘88 so the Super Shot was probably a year or two before that I guess.
Sadly I think I’d dropped out of following Tamiya at this point.