Winter project has finally arrived!

[Peakey]

I've been looking for one of these for the right price for the last couple of years but the way most have ended on eBay and other places they've just been too expensive.
I stumbled across this whiles looking for Losi XX parts as I'd not long acquired one of those too and the gay had this for sale with a reasonable start price and no bids. So it went into the watch list and for days it didn't have any bids so I thought I'd drop a bid on and see how I got on, well a few days later and it ended with just my bid so I was more than happy to finally own one.
That was just over a month ago it spent ages in customs in the US and here but I finally got my grubby paws on it today.
My first (and probably only) Yokomo 834B

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/07561A32-55EA-486D-9467-FC52A6410281_zpsnagbqrwe.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/07561A32-55EA-486D-9467-FC52A6410281_zpsnagbqrwe.jpg.html)
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/6E5D2A89-1D05-497F-9AA7-5A50754C25E4_zpsrh952fdo.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/6E5D2A89-1D05-497F-9AA7-5A50754C25E4_zpsrh952fdo.jpg.html)
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/DCDFB747-B607-481A-ADB8-C8738DF36D7E_zpstsimmnkk.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/DCDFB747-B607-481A-ADB8-C8738DF36D7E_zpstsimmnkk.jpg.html)
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/305EC549-6F3E-42FD-BD44-0CC0D86AD8A5_zpsng3ggmyd.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/305EC549-6F3E-42FD-BD44-0CC0D86AD8A5_zpsng3ggmyd.jpg.html)
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/E8F8D821-4CDF-4A4A-97BD-B80DF74FC321_zpslvkkvrhb.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/E8F8D821-4CDF-4A4A-97BD-B80DF74FC321_zpslvkkvrhb.jpg.html)
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/7A0E49E4-822B-4481-AD35-484B74744E16_zpsuyn7akwg.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/7A0E49E4-822B-4481-AD35-484B74744E16_zpsuyn7akwg.jpg.html)

It's been used and it in need of work but it's going to as it's 30+ years old but I plan on building it into a nice runner, it's been converted to the twin shocks front and rear and has a nice set of platinum shocks but they'll probably be replaced with something else but I've not decided yet.
I've got a couple of alloy parts for it already and am deciding on the chassis, that again will probably make way for a nice carbon one. I'm sure there's loads of bits broken and wrong with it but I don't care i like it and I know they'll be a lot of people that don't :lol::p

[tahustvedt]

Nice find.

It's an absurd design. Toy grade almost. Incredible to think this was the best 4WD in 1985.

[Peakey]

I know especially with the flex from the kydex chassis

[tahustvedt]

I think Losi made his own chassis from aluminum for the car he won with. He talks about it in this video: https://youtu.be/sVKu4hur4NM

It's one of the coolest cars to have in a collection.

[Welshy40]

Wasnt this the car that they built in the plane on the way to the worlds? Superb find though.

[Peakey]

I think Losi made his own chassis from aluminum for the car he won with. He talks about it in this video: https://youtu.be/sVKu4hur4NM

It's one of the coolest cars to have in a collection.

Great video! He said graphite chassis but you can't get sheets of graphite now like you use to be able to, I would like one cut from the same material that Yokomo used on he works cars but that's probably just a dream.

Wasnt this the car that they built in the plane on the way to the worlds? Superb find though.

No idea but quite possibly

[Peakey]

I got these before the car arrived but I hadn't taken a photo :thumbsup:

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p662/peakey29/Yokomo%20834B/B133CD93-938E-42F7-968F-F2F4DC3EC6E1_zpslgu76kvn.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/peakey29/media/Yokomo%20834B/B133CD93-938E-42F7-968F-F2F4DC3EC6E1_zpslgu76kvn.jpg.html)

[daz75]

https://youtu.be/VcgRaf38uCQ

:D

[Peakey]

https://youtu.be/VcgRaf38uCQ

:D

I've told you before about posting videos of yourself Daz :lol::lol::lol:

[daz75]

;):thumbsup:

[Dadio]

Nice find.

It's an absurd design. Toy grade almost. Incredible to think this was the best 4WD in 1985.

Some of the design ideas in 1985 were odd , they were just leaving the mono shock for everything phase but trailing arms at the rear were very popular , there was even an "upgrade" trailing arm system for the rear of the RC10 so it persisted for some time .
I have an 834b in original mono front and rear and it's not at all supprising from the way it drives that it won races ,I raced a highly modified Hot Shot back in the 80s and the dogfighter would eat it alive , I love driving mine, it's such a joy to use but with spares so sparse I have to restrain myself .
Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do .
Just one thing I'd say about all the alloy parts from PG , I use them on mine and found that the genuine front drive shafts are a little short using the alloy suspension parts , not sure where the difference is as I've never had a genuine set to compare them to , I made a new set up using Scorpion ReRe shafts extended , the ends of the scorpion shafts are perfect but they again are shorter but I was happier cutting sleeving and silver soldering a set of easily replaced ReRe shafts than ruining the genuine but slightly too short for the alloy upgrades ones .hope you have better luck but it would be a shame to loose a shaft that's so hard to replace .