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Radio Shack shennanigans - 7/1/2010 9:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Some of the posts here made me recall my time in a crap college job as a rat shack employee in the mid 90's. Having finished a 6 year period in the Army and returning to school I found that working at the shack paid as well as any student job on campus (nothing) and gave me sufficient time for class and homework. Being the engineer type and somewhat bored explaining how a VCR cleaning tape would not fix a lightning struck VCR and such, and also being a R/Cer since first grade I and a few fellow student/employees passed the time concocting various creations from the vehicles on hand in the store. I just didn't think to take any pictures at the time so I will just have to describe them. I couldn't find an image for these cars on the web but http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1998/ and page 238 and on has most of these cars.

One of the first ones we did was to set up a daily racing series, no rules on mods other than the stock RC system had to be retained, but the race was each day and if your car was down you took the points hit. The car we selected was a mustang about 10 inches long, no suspension and unfortunately I could not find a pic on the web of it. First mod was to pull out as much weight as I could, windows, motor cover, lights, all of it went. The chassis got drilled so much it looked like swiss cheese. I added two extra cells, motor heatsink, and some foam tires that did well on the commercial carpet in the store. We ran these for about a year. As I recall I won most of the time but with non proportional steering I did loose several by departing the course.

Another one was the Rock Runner Car Crusher 60-4173 II which was a nikko, found a pic only on an ebay auction which will of course expire: http://cgi.ebay.com/Radio-Shack-Car-Crusher-II-Model-60-4173-RS-Racing-/290449093272 This one got turned into a beast. I put in a 14 turn motor as I recall (probably a Kyosho ectoplasm or one of those monster motors, two 6 cell packs in series, and the speed control just triggered a relay so it was all or nothing. I also added wheely bars so that it had a chance of staying upright. It had ridiculous performance, launched hard and ran lightning fast. I found that by leaving the nubs on the tires they spun enough to keep the geartrain from coming apart. We were in a mall and when it was pretty empty this thing would get run in the mall and it would just scream. A few flower pots and benches were hit and there were several of these trucks built from quite a few donor cars.

Then there was the Extreme Machine 60-4195, also Nikko made as I recall. These were $200 each and for whatever reason were frequently returned. I put four together end on end with the bodies removed and steering disabled on the rear two. I used some hook and eye fittings with the hook closed. It was slow but made a great centipede truck. The truck stock was pretty terrible because it just bounced helplessly on low profile tires and stiff suspension.

The 60-4189 street sprinter was a Camaro look alike that was pretty popular. This one I stuck a 480BB in and it ran pretty good.

The 60-4174 Road Phantom was a dual motor 480 sized buggy that was actually pretty darn close to hobby grade. I actually have one still that I stuck a hummer body on. This one I modded with bearings, hydro shocks, and speed 480s that I rewound up to the limits of the stock speed control.





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RE: Radio Shack shennanigans - 1/13/2012 2:01 AM   
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 I just found my Road Phantom up in my closet and got it running a few days ago. Still runs strong for it's age and condition.
 
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RE: Radio Shack shennanigans - 2/2/2012 10:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Shack made a monster truck with a bright orange Ford Bronco on it too, do you remember that one ? I'd love to have mine back!


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RE: Radio Shack shennanigans - 2/19/2012 6:12 AM   
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The 60-4174 Road Phantom was a dual motor 480 sized buggy that was actually pretty darn close to hobby grade. I actually have one still that I stuck a hummer body on. This one I modded with bearings, hydro shocks, and speed 480s that I rewound up to the limits of the stock speed control.







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RE: Radio Shack shennanigans - 2/21/2012 11:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's always sweet to create a one-off conversion.

I took the mid 1980's Radio Shack 1/10th scale Audi Quattro, and modded it for a NiCD 6 cell stick pack. The thing flew, but the stick pack burnt out the circuits for the non-LED headlights, tail lights and brake lights. I junked it, unfortunately, in the garbage, after I got replacement parts for my Original Tamiya Frog ATM.

I now regret throwing it away, b/c that entire shadio rack car had everything (even a 380 Mabuchi motor) and had a super potential as a drifter or classic touring car. The thing handled like my Tamiya TA02 with a shorter motor (brushed) ATM!!! 


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RE: Radio Shack shennanigans - 5/10/2013 7:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello everyone...

I am new here and am also bringing up al old posting.

I am looking for a remote control/transmitter for the 60-4714 road phantom 27Mhz Band 2

can anyone help here?

Thanks!!
Frank

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