Dan, I can see where your coming from, it would seem a shame to build it and sacrilege to run it, then again, I've had it for 20+years and I'm tempted to do both every time I look at it
It would seem that eBay is the way to go, as much as I'd rather not.
I'm glad to hear that there is are losi people out there, although I don't have any other vintage ones as such, I think I've got at least 6 running cars from xx4's to a 22.2.