Seeing these Frog videos is making feel really nostalgic! I love the skeleton style chassis so much.

My first RC was the Frog back in the mid 80s, fond memories spending all our time in Beatties model shop, that's in great condition, the alloy plate and underside of the battery tray on mine were almost wore through lol That gear that was gunked up was probably where the other gear wasn't touching and was old congealed grease, And I think the Tamiya thread lock from back then was like a blue glue, it did smell great *LOL*

I had a frog back in ‘86 and I put Lancia rally wide wheels on it . It had a Le Mans 480T motor too. It was painted the same as the box art too. What a beautiful beast it was

I also had this car back in the 80’s it was my first real r/c vehicle. Very nostalgic to see it again. I remember it having two heavy duty wire antennas on either side of the chassis that acted as a roll bar of sorts to protect the body in the event of a roll over. Great video 👍🏼

Nice.........always loved the Frog. Looking forward to this👍

Great project car. I remember as a kid always tearing down the gear box. I ran my Brat all the time cause it had the posi gear. I just built a rerelease Monster Beetle and put a MIP ball diff in it. I'm just gonna run it in the basement. I had tons of old screws and nuts when I restored tons of cars in the early 2000's. I replated all in gold, silver and black. Still have tons for projects. Love this old stuff.

I still have one. bought new in 1988. Works perfect still.

Beautiful job on the chassis Glenn, never gets old working on the ORV chassis for me. Always brings me back to my first RC the Blackfoot.

Brought back a lot of memories, mostly of repairing those !?@&#?@!? things...Awe, the good old days!

Great job Glenn.

Nice, what a classic!

How did I miss this video from 2 years ago. The green frog just makes so much sense 🐸

Yet another trip down memory lane. My first real rc model, since sold, re bought, turned into a truck, very few original parts left, but fun memories.

You don't have to pull an upright to fix your steering drag link. Just pull the screw from the servo saver, and use a screwdriver to pop the ball link off the steering knuckle (either one), and you will be able to manipulate either steering drag link bar off, turn it one half to reinstall on the desired side, and re-secure the ball joint, and put the servo saver screw back in. My first RC car was a used Frog back in about '87. Came with a Futaba twin stick transmitter. The eventual reason I sold it was because the transmission kept skipping gears, and I couldn't figure out why. I moved on to a Fox by then, which was a much faster and better engineered buggy. Years later I started racing on road flat chassis cars. I still have my original Fox, though it's in pretty tough shape. Well loved you could say.

Looking forward to the next video. I'm wanting a frog again BAD... Lol

Nice vintage frog, good to see a frog in great condition. Tamiya upgraded the gearbox quite a bit on the re-release, so no hex drive, Dog bones do help and I didn't notice the plate that meshes with the gearbox, in the re-release, but I could be wrong, as I've only built one of these myself a few years back. And yeah it's a headache of a gearbox to put together. Gravity Just holds everything in place Just before you screw everything down. Oh and mine did come with bearings for the gearbox but none for the car. And I also subbed. You're channel is very interesting and you have a good collection of tamiya. :)

Frog and a grasshopper are next 2 buggies on my go get list

Good memories of my Frog from the 1980's! Thanks fur sharing this!

The Frog was my first hobby grade RC car. That lead to an original 6 gear Associated RC10

Just watching your frog video as I’m building a brat and just love the ORV design. I can see why you like it so much 👍

just ordered the kit, had lots of "toy" rc cars as a kid never did the "hobby" grade ones. I really REALLY prefer the look of these old buggies over the new ones.

Epic job Glenn, Great to watch.Thanks!

Great blast from the past 👍👊

I want a T-shirt of the thumbnail. The box art for tamiya models would work out well on shirts.

Really enjoyed watching this Glenn. As you say, a great sense of achievement bringing it back from the brink. 😊

That's a very good restoration 👍👌

Fascinating and informative as always :) thanks for posting, look forward to the next one.

Nice Rebuild. I enjoyed building my Brat. Looking at doing a Custom Frog one Day.

I had a Fox and one of my buds had thr frog. It was a blast to drive. It is cool that they used that chassis on many of their other models.

Wow. That looks great!

Good vid again!👍 Don't forget to put on what actually finishes the frog! The twin metal Ariel's and be careful with that technigold I put one in my Subaru brat back in the day and it absolutely destroyed the diff and stripped the dog bones🤦‍♂️

I had the Frog and the Hornet when I was a kid. And several Blackfoot's

Just love the Frog, just finished my first Frog today a re re, byt great build just paint to go and I found some 540 sport tuned Tamiya motors so pretty excited to get it runnung

Lovely Glen!!!. As I’ve said before I never had any love for this one back in the day even though it was really popular with the boys at my school. Maybe I missed out on something Glen!!. Watching you work from that original manual was brilliant... that really took me back👍👍👍👍

My 1st car was a Frog xmas 1984,after discovering your channel a few weeks ago I wanted to get that and the hopped up Fox and Boomerang which I raced as a teen back from mothers.Rather miffed to find out she dumped them years ago.I was so disappointed when the terrible hex half shafts stripped after a couple of weeks,because of this it hardly got used and became near mint shelf art.

Looking good so far. 👍

Good to see as always.

Great job, thank you

MIP differential, AmPro suspension and 10.5T Tamiya brushless!

and YES go old school speedo !!!!!!!!!! feel the history :D

I had the Hornet and another I can't remember the name! Awesome video.

Wow. I’ve got a frog and a black foot. They’re interchangeable. You can turn one into the other. I even have the old speed controller that a bunch of windings on a shaft.

Glenn. Shocks are built similar to modern cva's. You can download re re manual from tamiya. Looks like the diff gear gas been in back to front. Very crucial it is in right way round

Fantastic Glen , so makes memories ordering this from the catalog with Acoms radio set . If I remember a few things the rear shocks came with various piston plates with different amounts of holes it had twin steel aerials . And manual speed controller gave me no end of trouble and was brutal on the gearbox and drive train . I guess fitted with the more powerful motor it could be worse. Go electronic speed controller .

Glue the resistor plate to a piece of plastic gift card, it's flexible and durable, cut it to shape and paint it if you want.

Great video Glenn l am really a big fan of the ORV chassis l started the hobby back in the day with a Subaru Brat and then modified it to a Frog and started getting really decent results with it on track!! I had some big issues with it too though with those hex drive shafts( many will remember those damn things) and the gear box was a bit weak especially if fed decent power through it! so be careful with that gold motor Glenn 😉👍 Yeah big fan of the Frog and family! Nice job so far mate! You going boxart?? Boxart looks amazing on the Frog! Pink lol never looked so good!!

This was the model featured on an episode of Punky Brewster in the 80's... She was supposed to have won a tea set but the store thought she was a boy and sent her the Frog instead. It was that show that opened my eyes to real RC cars and I started saving my money immediately. I eventually saved up about $200, a lot for an 11-year-old with a propensity for candy and baseball cards, but was still nowhere near where I needed to be for a new kit and everything else. Fortuitously I ran into a guy selling a used, fully-modified Blackfoot and all his other gear from the trunk of his car at Little Caesers pizza, and the rest is history.

Bec receiver will shed the weight of the 6v servo batteries! I prefer the old mhz system over ghz because hardly anybody uses it nowadays + the signal transmits through water,rc subs, aircraft in cloud/fog. One part I wouldn't keep original is the hex shafts as the corners will shear of especially with a technigold!!!

Ive never had a frog bit ive always wanted one. I will have it one day. Thanks for reminding me of that Glenn.😉

Awesome beast 👍👍👍

If you flip your manual to the parts page at the back, and look in the "screw bag B" section, behind the 3x20 round head screw it does actually says "B2" as stated by the screws in the manual as you shows :-) I really don't use which bag to use section in the the manual, I go by the letter and number. Works for me :-) Frog is one of those I have never liked or owned, sold the first edition of a re-re Brat I got in a trade some years ago, but I do own both BF and MB x2. For some reason the ORV chassis has never been my thing. But the Frog do grow on me, so I may get one in the future :-)

Great vid Glenn.

Wow, is just a buggy version of a Blackfoot. Never knew that, but I could tear it apart and rebuild it without the manual! LOL! My first Hobby grade was a Blackfoot! Thanks for sharing! I must have bought 100 pairs of the "hex shaft" ugh! I eventually changed out the rear end to a Blackfoot 3 rear end that has dog bones! (and upright rear shocks)

I just bought a lunchbox last week for my local tracks vintage race. Gunna put some short shocks on it and keep it low.

Nice job 👍

I too had a Frog. In fact 2 I think. I have a 83 instruction manual somewhere if it helps. Happy just to send it.

I still have my original frog i was also able to locate a CRP steel counter gear to replace the brass one

Excellent Glenn! We saw a rere super cold buster kit for sale at our local and I was torn on whether or not to pick it up. We didn’t get it, but, it’s possible that we will have it in the next few days....

Interesting stuff, and you can tell you enjoyed it! I had a Brat back in the day, loved the body but was (sacrilege alert) kind of disappointed with the chassis, mostly for being so unlike a real car but also for being so massively overbuilt. It hardly helped the underpowered motor and battery back then... BUT! It definitely works better for me with the frame-hugging Frog body shell on it. And I've loved the look of those rear spikes since forever. That Frog is going to look ace. Nice one. 👍😀

TAMIYA is the BEST. All the others are just toys. 😆

Looking at your grasshopper box brings back memories 😁 I completely trashed mine back in the late 80's. I cracked the white body from all the rough and tumble. I've probably still got it in the attic. The only thing I use to this day is the little orange handled pozidrive screwdriver that came with it ( I think it was for wheel assembly ) 😂👍

Awesome😊😎Its supposed to have copper spacers at the front👍

Each screw is called out with a reference, e.g., b5. The "parts" section of the manual tells you what that is.

It's been over 30 years since I handled one of these Glenn and I can still feel that battery tray peg on my thumb tip! and oh how that diff was grindy lol So many memories.. I believe the blue gunk was the original thread lock that came with some Tamia models back in the day, I recall getting it everywhere at one point lol Was commenting about the steering thing when you noticed it in the video haha thought it looked a little off lol

great build video mate my mrs nick name is frog😂👍👊😊🇬🇧😎

There was a slight anomaly on some of the frog diff gears that you had to flip the diff gear the other direction or it would rub the case slightly. This would also be a great time to shim (CRP shims or equivalent) the diff carriers to prolong the life of the bevel gears. Get a ultrasonic cleaner with just water+soap (no purple or green cleaners as they will mess up the aluminum) would work great at getting all the nooks and crannies. The brass spacer is correct for the front bumper mount to suspension.

Looking good, I restored one as well

Just went lookin for my frog . Only found the well used body an wing .Gonna go to my mommas house an look LOL.

I want one, I’ll name it Pepe 🐸

glenn the screws are galvanised and yes they are cov shocks

not box art no.... but if you watch the original tamy ad vids it was shown racing pink white and a black green :D

' i have tamiya frog with traxxas parts on it... another one is a tamtrax car as half tamiya and half traxxas... very goood model

By the end of the video I am thinking "Now I need a Frog!"

Want one and put a mip dif in it. It's a fun car for what it is.

My first car. Took 10 months paper round to buy in 85

I had a Frog back in the 80s. I HATED the gearbox. I could never get that clunky thing to work right. The rear axles would always come apart too. Biggest PIA car I had. I had more fun with my Hornet.

You do take pics of everything while taking it apart right?

Hi Glen, This is where I love youtube - I have an original Tamiya Frog and I believe mark 1 in as good condition (being dumped so rescued it) and am wondering what battery and charger you would recommend? (Ireland) . I just got it working again as a project with me and the son but the battery pack is the original and thinking of switching to Lipo. Any help would be great. Totally

What screwdrivers are you using?

awwwwww sp28 servos.......... :D

You used to use an ultrasonic bath to clean your parts with dont you use it anymore glenn

I'd probably get strung up by the purists out there. I have several vintage Tamiya buggies, and I just remove the period electrics from them, and I'm not overly shy about putting re-re parts in them either. I like to get them running in fair to good condition and not worry too much about authenticity. Having said all that, this buggy is turning out quite nice. Edit: Oh, and I'd turf those old hex drives as far as I could throw them.

Aren't the springs with the plastic caps the front shocks, and the springs are the "arms" that goes to the front bumper?

Well shit now I want one too

What is the little plate off with the 2 screws

The metal gear at 8:45 looks to be bronze while its aloy on the rere. I am sure the bronze is 100% better.... why did they move to the aloy one :(

What is the resistor for?

You know those arms were talking about their I also think they seem to be like anti-sway bars I think they do double duty on the front suspension.

I remember this model and my friend had the hornet ,,I always wanted one but my parents was tights bastards !

That's a nice car👍👍👍

If I could only own one Tamiya buggy I would choose a frog. What would everyone else choose?

I thought you were a Tamiya surest and I am to an extent I just want to put modern things at it sometimes it's very hard to get from Tamiya because the stuff is expensive but if I can get the right motors for certain cars I would like that.

You need a front upright lol

Hey can you use that metal plate for the ESC because that would help in its cooling off itself.

You might still be able to get brass pinions from Tamiya or someone else that will fit them.

Are you going to get the re re version too?

What do you pay for a vintage frog??

Hey Glen can't you put full ball bearings in the gearbox somewhere?

If possible, you should try and run it with the original MSC (it looks to be in reasonable condition with no corrosion: the contact plates just need a clean) for that ultimate retro analogue RC experience. You can't beat the sound of those old speedos, even if they were hazardous when the BEC nicad power ran low and the car suddenly took on a mind of its own!

Get a ultrasonic cleaner glen