Guys I recently stumbled across a new in box Tamiya Madbull model 58205. I've been encouraged to do a build up of the car here on RCU so over the next couple of weeks I'm going to document the assembly process and hopefully get a vid or two posted of the completed project. I'm not sure where the project will go from there but i have plans to do some simple mods and see how well the car responds. Parts for this model are kind of hard to get so i'm going to keep the mods pretty tame. No brushless systems on 3S for this model
From what I can tell in the limited research I've done it appears that this model was not very successful for Tamiya. When compared to other models there seems to be very little info out there and almost nothing in the way of hop up parts.
Here's a little back ground on the model.
The MadBull is model number 58205. From what I can track down it was released somewhere between fall 1999 and spring 2000. The Madbull is an interesting combination of off the shelf parts. It's shares it chassis with only two other cars in tamiya's line up. The Fighter buggy and mad fighter. The wheels and tires are pulled direct fro the Lunchbox and the body is a lightly modified version of the hard plastic shell used on the Grass Hopper 2. All of this was combined to create this unique half truck, half buggy thing.
In talking to people over the last week I've learned that people have very different opinions of this car. Some have refereed to it as the first truggy while Others have called it a moon buggy. Some really like it while other have made comments I can't post here
This is certainly something you will either love or hate and I know it will not have to following of some of the more common buggies like the Hornet or Grasshopper.
Below are a few links and pics i've found on the net. There's a little info out there but not a whole lot. Here's what I've found.
We'll start with the link to Tamiya's site
http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/ite...oduct-id=58205
Link to the Madbull on TamiyaClub.com
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/car.asp?id=211
Here is the link to Tamiya's promo video for this car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQAhdPtyx4
Here's another misc Youtube Vid of the Bull. There are a few of them but most are poor quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9N1B5g2gKM
Pretty decent review
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...1/ai_n9010581/
There is a little more info out there but not much.
I'm planning to start my build sometime next week. Until then I'd like to encourage anyone that has one of these cars to post up some pics, tell us your story and please sit back and enjoy. I know this isn't the most exciting car Tamiya ever produced but it certainly is an odd one.