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The first car tamiya that I had was a Holiday buggy, purchased in 1982.
After a few years of intensive Exploitation, the car was destroyed!
I threw the chassis and body, keeping only the mechanical part throughout.
Last year I found a body and a chassis, I reassembled the pieces recovered, repro decals and behold the result.
I managed to put on the same radio that mounted.
I know it is not anything fancy but I like it, brings me back to youth.

Very nice. It'll always remain a special car - with the reissue being a DT-02...

Looks nice to me

I'm afraid to run these chassis though, having broken an irreplaceable gear in one of them

On another chassis I've broken even one gear.
Fortunately I solved it.

frog66 wrote:

On another chassis I've broken even one gear.
Fortunately I solved it.
...

Nice fix

I'm assuming the brass bit is home turned, but what about the rest of the "Gear B"? I'm guessing the large side is the remains of the original & the small side is a pinion machined down to fit?

The one I broke though was the "Gear A", using a 540 motor - different motor mounting bracket & the "Gear B" gets omitted

Thanks though - it does give me hope that I can fix it ... assuming I can ever afford a have & somewhere to put it.

The broken part was the small gear with 15 teeth.
I made ??a brass disk with a pin of sufficient length.
I stared hard at disk the large gear, and the aluminum pinion to pin.
So I solved my trouble.
I hope I explained, the English language is a little difficult for me.

I have always wondered, what Tamiya was thinking when the left the gearbox open on this car, when it was clearly meant for sand and gravel

I had a Sand Rover as a child, and I woulf love to get my hands on another...

Is true, this type of car breaks down easily, we must not forget that this was a model's very cheap, so simply lacks the necessary precautions.