Agree! Not everything has to be ‘restored’. Yes a restoration is often called for. But just sometimes, aside from maintenance, buggy or car should be left as a snap shot of that time! Keep up the great work 👍🏼

Very unique piece of history

That's nice! Congrats on getting that platform!

Nice piece of history

I have currently a 1989 Australian worlds Masami Hirosaka car..

Very cool piece of RC10 history! I picked up a used gold Pan a number of months ago that has been drilled multiple times and will be a perfect donor for a trailing arm conversion to a factory works chassie. I'm looking forward to getting started and slowly collecting what is needed. Great video! Would love to know more about that car's history

Yep, I upgraded my RC10 in 1988 with the Houge carbon chassis and trailing arms.

I miss Novak electronics...

What are the stands you use? Are they custom build?

This is a great throwback for me! But please forgive me because your friend you purchased this great relic of rc history has made a great error. Houge never made aluminium parts nor a single bellcrank steering rack, and furthermore never made front suspension arms. Allec and Lane (A&L) made these parts. Both Houge and A&L seem to have back in the day came out with similar rear suspension products for the RC10 about the same time. Houge had a plastic bellcrank system which was a huge upgrade and replaced the stock AE bellcranks with a 4 bearing system and Losi also made a terrible steel version just before that which the bearings would not fit into without ruining them. A&L developed the longer front arms to widen the narrow front end of the car, and Houge made a wider front end with wider shock tower and used the existing front stock arms. I was sponsored by Houge and know this all as fact.