Wow!!! That was quick!!

Earlier I wrote that I'd put the redundant donor Clod bits up on eBay to see if the they'd go. So I put the shell and the chassis into the auction this evening and guess what - they both sold for the full 'Buy It Now' price within 25 minutes! £17.99 for the shell and £19.99 for the chassis!! That's recovered almost exactly half the cost of the initial purchase price of the original Tamiya - making it a doubly definite bargain!

So it's out with the old and in with the new. Here's the new shell the last time it was in the company of the old one. It's lexan instead of ABS, was made for a Hoboa Monster Pirate nitro truck, and weighs in (complete with a flexible subframe) at 8.5oz (240 gm) as opposed to 1lb 5.5oz (575gm).


It came new, ready painted on the inside, with internal decals by Jackal (again from eBay) for £18.50. Also included was a sheet of external stickers for the windows and lights etc, the only snag was that the windscreen one said 'Monster Pirate' on the top of it, so a strip of ordinary black insulating tape has become a sunshield. Quite a good bargain I though to myself, being as similar unpainted shells, if you're looking for something specific, can easily fetch £45.