Blackfoot--19 years old and still runs
The tires are fine!!! In fact, the whole truck looks really good.
I got a couple new 1500mah batteries today and it works great. Going to get an ESC tomorrow and call it a day.
Regarding the old batteries, they started out about 2.5 volts on my charger, I cycled them a couple times and used 'em.
It is pretty amazing considering when I first built and used this truck, I didn't know ANYTHING about Nicads........