Mardave Apache

[Radish]

Seeing as there's a thread for the Cobra on here I thought I'd post a few pics of my earlier Mardave, the Apache.
I raced this back in the day as they were a cheap alternative for the cash strapped racer on paper round money ;-)
I found this one after a long search and it's all new! I bought a virtually complete car in it's original box and then sourced the remaining parts.
When I used to race I had a ball diff but sadly that went when I sold the car many years ago.....

[Ant]

The Apache was my first car also. Still got it.
A complete gearbox rebuild used to cost 70p and driveshafts 35p each.....

[Radish]

Yaeh, that was the beauty of the Apache, tough as old boots and cheap. We used to buy the complete front suspension setup and graft it onto a Rough Rider as it was stronger and more reliable (plus only a fiver), I even fitted one onto a Holiday Buggy after the top spring mount snapped off the chassis. Sacrilege now....
The body was around £2.50 and could be fitted on a Rough Rider chassis too if you weren't running the radio box.
Happy days!

[mr. ed]

I was given one of these and have been thinking about modernizing it.
But before going wild: would it be hard to source gears for?
I don't want to go too deep and be stuck with a nice car but with broken irreplacable gears after a couple runs.

[daveyboi1973]

Originally Posted by mr. ed

I was given one of these and have been thinking about modernizing it.
But before going wild: would it be hard to source gears for?
I don't want to go too deep and be stuck with a nice car but with broken irreplacable gears after a couple runs.

Have a chat with neil at R/W racing,maybe he can help with the gears. .
You can contact him here :-

http://www.rwracing.co.uk/.