My new pred

[Retro RC]

What country did you find this is Justin?

[Peakey]

Originally Posted by Retro RC

What country did you find this is Justin?

Portugal

[mintzant]

Back to the future...
Quality!!!!

[RJJ]

Very nice Justin, you always amaze me with your hunting skills of finding nice cars or parts buddy

[jeps]

Great find !!!

We can see black shocks bodies on your car. On others XT, I saw silver anodised shocks bodies. What are the originals ? Blacks for 93 until mid 94 ?

And for the upper front wishbones, are they the originals ? I have another model slimer.
So same question : do you know when the upper front wishbones have been improved ?

front upper wishbones

[fil9144]

Originally Posted by Peakey

Just had some more on the serial numbers from the man himself.

The 2 means February. The 4 means 1994. 102 means it was the 2nd car made that month. (The middle numbers always started at 100) Some years, we swapped the end digits so that the month was at the end of the number and the years was at the beginning. Some years we also reversed the middle three numbers. It's simple when you know the code! I'm happy that all these years later no one figured it out.

so if i had car: 111594?

any ideas

[Peakey]

Originally Posted by fil9144

so if i had car: 111594?

any ideas

A replacement tub from what I found out

[fil9144]

Originally Posted by Peakey

A replacement tub from what I found out

hmm well happy with it being a carbon tub got a nice x10 and x11 now so cant moan really

[oldenoughtoknowbetter]

Awesome looking pred!!! seriously jealous

[Welshy40]

Well if interested even though I think its £300 more than what its worth ones for sale in the normal for sale section for £500.

[daz75]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Well if interested even though I think its £300 more than what its worth ones for sale in the normal for sale section for £500.

In Backforfun wanted thread the guy with the x11 and nearly 2 cars in spares wanted £400 so sounds expensive/money making excersise

[fil9144]

Originally Posted by daz75

I'm Backforfun wanted thread the guy with the x11 and nearly 2 cars in spares wanted £400 so sounds expensive/money making excersise

Any vintage car is only worth what people are willing to pay with these predators they are becoming collectible again which will only push the price up...
I paid £380 for my carbon tub and to me personally it's a bargain but to someone else they may not be willing to pay that.

There been a X11 in Spain for some time now 600plus euro but think that might be bit to far for a standard car as is £500 as I have just sold 2 predators for £300.00 each as I want a nice yokomo yz10 to go next to my rc10's

The one thing that drawn me to the predators is they are a really bit of history and the design so out there with the engineering!
but I am afraid after driving Leon's at mb track I will never run mine they for the shelf

[Mr Satchell]

I want to run mine more. I like the way it drives. Need to do the tm4 gear swap thing. I didn't buy my preds to make money I bought them because I like the design and there's not many about. I have a new build one that's never had electrics fitted never mind seen a track. Someone out there would problem snap my arm off for it but it's not for sale

[daz75]

Originally Posted by fil9144

Any vintage car is only worth what people are willing to pay with these predators they are becoming collectible again which will only push the price up...
I paid £380 for my carbon tub and to me personally it's a bargain but to someone else they may not be willing to pay that.

There been a X11 in Spain for some time now 600plus euro but think that might be bit to far for a standard car as is £500 as I have just sold 2 predators for £300.00 each as I want a nice yokomo yz10 to go next to my rc10's

The one thing that drawn me to the predators is they are a really bit of history and the design so out there with the engineering!
but I am afraid after driving Leon's at mb track I will never run mine they for the shelf

Did you not like the way it handled then?

[oldenoughtoknowbetter]

Ive always loved the look of preds and was lucky enough to have 2 xk98s as a kid. Price wise, yes they seem expensive but they will never be re released and only getting rarer

[fil9144]

Originally Posted by daz75

Did you not like the way it handled then?

Wasn't that it's just drove one now nearly bought one when I was a kid to be honest and drove Leon's it went ok but to be honest I just prefer 2wd now my rc10 nearly done now that will be a runner