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23-08-2010
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Remember the pred isn't a car from the past guys
now it's very reliable and still fast look at Kev Lee last week you can still return too that old love, you won't regret it (that's my opinion  )cheers 
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23-08-2010
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I loved the Predator. Way ahead of it's time.
Was fortunate enough to know Richard Weatherley (and his brother John who was British Rally Champion in a Mazda 323 in the early 90s). Richard built a test track in his back garden where the car was developed, remember testing with and without the wings, made a massive difference.
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24-08-2010
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Yeah definitely, the car was a nightmare if you lost the front wing during a run - i remember having all sorts of problems cornering but especially jumping.....
I still think it's the best 4wd car i raced, and that was 2001 - Even then it was considered pretty old so great stuff that it's still winning now with essentially the same design 16 years later.....
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29-08-2010
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Hi there,
I thought you would be interested in seeing some more old Pred stuff... I'm too young for having raced those in the days (I'm not racing anyway, no tracks here...) but I love those cars, how they are made and how they feel and look! I hope you'll like those! So here is a Pred XT      Those guys were mad : I love the fact the spoilers came with lexan parts to make them like an inverted plane wing  The spare axle is a one-way version  And now, a NIB DTM. I love this also because every purse is labelled with the name of the guy that made it. It's pretty impressive!      It misses the instruction manual though  Hope you liked it! Julien
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04-10-2010
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06-10-2010
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VERY nice cars Julien !!!
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06-10-2010
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Some nice cars there, i had one in the 90's, swapped my Bosscat for it. the other guys couldn't stay away from solid objects (at any speed!) let's just say the Bosscat suited his style! Predator was soooo smooth on carpet indoors, love the DTM one too.
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13-10-2010
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 I had two preds first a "stick pack" car owned by William Mitcham with a Kev Moore shell on it 2nd car was a later "saddle pack" chassis (xk98?) Also remember Graham Alsop flying at worksop indoor series (late 90,s) never did manage to set gears properly !! howling like a demented banshee! Oh happy days still have a 410k keypad in my f103
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28-10-2010
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Thought I`d join in...
I just pulled this out of my basement after forgetting about it for a couple of years. I don't know the exact model but the guy that gave it to me said it was a Predator. I`m thinking of restoring it but it`s very hard to find parts for this thing.
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28-10-2010
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Looks to be mostly XK98 to me ? You rarely see a pre-x10 Pred thats totaly original though due to people breaking/upgrading them and using whatever parts they could get at the time no matter what model it was
 Myself and a mate have got a couple of full boxes of brand new packaged Pred parts, maybe 250-300 odd packets... including a few gems such as an original '94 XT Pred large propshaft ( work of art in itself ), early gearbox tops, suspension arms, shocks etc etc and all parts moving all the way up to the P8. When i went though all the suspension arms for example i never realised there were so many different revisons with very minor detail changes ! Ill be restoring my Preds but ill do a parts list next week if anyones interested in NIP parts from the XT to P8 and everything inbetween.... ?
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28-10-2010
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Looks like a Predator XK98 with the saddle pack chassis and the red anodised bits, although the body is the older international/FTQ type.
Seeing the Schumacher Cat 2000 battery straps fitted to yours reminds me of a gang of us racing the Predators in late 90's, the other common modification was Losi XX4 rear wing mounts and associated rear wings to get more down force. Thumbs up to collecting the old cars, definitely tempted with the P8 on ebay atm!
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06-11-2010
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david i remember you racing that car up at stonehaven at one off the scottish rounds, in 1994. it was the day that ayrton senna unfortunitly. and i also remember that car cart-rolling up the back straight at full speed and all the wheels and wishbones ripped of it. dont know if youll remember me (martin wallace) i think you were giving up buggys when i started them. i was running a yokomo yz10 from mike martin. cars looking great btw. i have a predator international also and looking to restore it to. the buggys are coming back to life in scotland again for next year. you up for a comeback if you arnt already?
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07-11-2010
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I remember you Martin, and I also remember racing Stonehaven the day Senna died, and for some strange reason remember driving home from Stonehaven to Dundee as I was learning to drive full size cars at the time (and what a fortune that has cost me since then, but thats another story!) but I remember nothing at all about the race meeting, in fact dont recall that much about racing in 94 apart from the British rounds.
I bought a 2nd hand b44, and raced once at the Scottish regional Stonehaven and then a club round and thats it so far. Plan to do the Scottish next yr, but have some set up work to do. Maybe see you racing in '11. Cheers David
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08-11-2010
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I still have a huge soft spot for the Preds. My first was an XT, then a 95 Pro, XK98 then P8 which I still have.
Was an awesome car and I never really suffered too much with breakages to be honest (except the XT I have to admit that). I remember doing an entire season, regionals and nationals with the P8 without putting a single part on it ... not even a spur or front wing! On the sub topic I used to live down the road from Rory Cull. His dad, Roger, helped me a lot to get back into racing after my father died in 1990 and his mum, Fran', and I ran the club in Evesham for it's whole duration. Some of the nicest people you could hope to meet. Almost every time I drove one of Rory's cars I'd say "thats got no steering" to which he always replied "gets around alright". I think all my kit came as cast offs from Rory and Dan / Nick Marson for quite a number of years.
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I've bought mine of RC/Tech : it made the trip back from the US to Europe 
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