COLLECTOR/TRIVIA INFO...

Here is some more interesting trivia for TK collector fans, I got a call from the sales rep at MRC a good few years back when they were already compleatly sold out of NTK kits for quite a while, Peggy told me that they were cleaning up the warehouse and found some of the first original 4 NTK PROMO kits that they had made for them that they used to show off to/at the r/c industry shows hidden way up on the top shelfs where they were forgotten, so anyway they thought of me and called me up to give me first dibs. Tim at MRC told me there were less than 1000 Nitro modded TK kits put together so it was a no brainer for me lol...

So guess who has some of the first NTK kits ever made lol... All 4 of the originals (2 with radios sys, 2 with out) are sitting on my top shelf still in the boxes MRC sent them to me in years ago LOL. These kits are more crude looking, the tune pipes look like hell, they have diffrent linkages than the newer ones and a few other diffrent parts than the newer prodution kits. I wonder if there are any people with one of the first batch (blue head) style kits still in the box out there?

One other interesting thing I heard and I seen one pic of one is apparently MRC made a very few PROTOTYPE trucks with ALL virgin white nylon parts on them (same material as the factory TK wheels), I heard you could practicly throw them off a 10 story building or run over these things with a fullsize car/truck and you could not break/none of the parts would break. I am guessing that they would never be able to sell any parts if they marketed the kits in all nylon. I would love to get my hands on on some of these rare parts which could also be dyed any colors. Have a close look at the new at that time aftermarket 8scale Parma body for these kits, closely check out the suspension parts in the pic below and you will see this super rare white rino. Also there were a good few companys back when these kits came out that made some real nice stuff like a complete carbon fiber chassis and a few companys making real nice looking aluminum wheels and other goodies, looking back I realy wish I would of bought more of the aftermarket stuff companys made for them.

In the past I was so hardcore into these kits when they first came out as elc kits, I bet I was probably one of the first guys to convert an elc kit to nitro using a low hp K&B .21 engine with flywheel start, usa1 counter gear support, ofna mounts/tank, traxxas bell brake and som other misc pasts, I had to use a bit of wetlube in the tranny to make the elc gears last longer.

I got into being a dealer for the NTK kits because guys here that bought elc kits years back could not get parts from the hobby stores for them so we/I looked into other ways to get parts. Here in calgary I sold a lot of NTK kits and specialized in them and others, we used these kits in the USHRA monster jam event shows and these kits sold them selfs after that. MRC and the NTK even helped us build and support the Nitro Extreme r/c park which was a 2.5 acre 8scale nitro park in the middle of the city with 2 tracks, parking, toilets, food, drinks and more, it just was a great place for 8scale guys to hang out to run there NTKs, anyway I can give more info out of this later.

Here in calgary I wanted to do something special with the NTK because it was a limited/low production conversion kit. So I made up 9/nine special editon nitro extreme kits to go with the theme of the r/c park MRC help us to build. In various shippments of NTK's from MRC after the park opened I took extra time to go though every nut and bolt and resetup everything including going through the ball diff setups/gears with extra grease and adjustments. These NINE 3+3+3 NITRO EXTREME NTK kits got something extra... something hidden.