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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Team associated RC10L pan car (grandfather of what Higgins has) 
hot battery, custom wound motor, does close to 50 mph when I gear it all the way up. BTW Jeff, 4WD is for sissies
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What dog compared to today's standards - or Higgin's car...that 4 stroke is flippin sweet! I do RC Airplanes and almost nothing but 4 strokes. I'd love to trick out my .15 powered car with a 4 stroke like that. I think that engine is a little rare - not a lot - just a little. Does it run hot, 4 stroke exhaust is quite a bit hotter than 2 stroke too.
Anyway, back to bashing sammy's oldie!
RC10L's HA! 2wd! HA!!! today nearly everything is 4WD and the motors are brushless. You pop a brushless in there and even with the same old a$$ Sanyo SCR's you'll go twice as fast (and probably have little to no control to boot!).
I love it. My first job was in a hobby shop at 13 years old building cars and airplanes for customers. I worked part time at hobby stores into my mid-twenties even when I had other 'real' jobs. If I had the time today I would build airplanes on contract. My favorite buggy for a looooong time was the RC-10 - man I wish I still had one of those old a$$ tanks with the aluminum tub chassis. I would trick it out with an undersized brushless and a lipo battery and it'd be a rocket.
Oh - here's my latest airplane:
It's a P-51B (Sig ARF) with retracts and a very old OS 120 4 stroke (like 25 years old). I think it's like a 64" wing span and about that long too, about 12 pounds. It scoots along pretty good but when one with a more modern engine gets in the air mine looks like it is standing still.