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www.ebay.fr/itm...2c87447f5a

Note the font, colours & packaging design on this Taiwanese knock-off ... "interestingly" it's no cheaper than the genuine Tamiya item

Vintage Fox prices really took a hammering from the "Nova Fox" re-release - this one is up at 60 GBP + 12 GBP post BIN & looks pretty good - I'd have thought that should have been snapped up

www.ebay.fr/itm...58b319a5cd

Are you sure you didn't mean to put that in the "look at the state of that" thread? That s the saddest looking Wheeler I've ever seen - I've thrown away cars that were better than that.

It looks restorable at first, then you quickly start noticing the horrors - perished Scorcher tyres, the missing bumper & block, the fact it must have had a front end smash & the bodged up "replacement" front bulkhead & suspension "pipe clamp", the missing gearbox parts ... and then the body, and it gets worse - the poorly repaired break, the painted windows, and, worst of all, the badly hacked about wheel arches.

TBH I think it's at it's money already, and I hope the winner plans to break it for spares & give the body a Viking burial.

Maybe we should send ASCII art flowers via "ask seller a question" ?

Jonny wrote:

- perished Scorcher tyres, -

Actually those are not SS tyres - they are from an AYK 566B Super Trail and are quite rare. They are perished though...

And check out how square the front axle to the chassis isn't.

Martin wrote:

Jonny wrote:

- perished Scorcher tyres, -

Actually those are not SS tyres - they are from an AYK 566B Super Trail and are quite rare. They are perished though...

Yes, I can see the difference now - the paddles very obviously extend a lot further onto the sidewall

Does the rareness trump the wrongness though ?

Jonny wrote:

Are you sure you didn't mean to put that in the "look at the state of that" thread? That s the saddest looking Wheeler I've ever seen - I've thrown away cars that were better than that.

It looks restorable at first, then you quickly start noticing the horrors - perished Scorcher tyres, the missing bumper & block, the fact it must have had a front end smash & the bodged up "replacement" front bulkhead & suspension "pipe clamp", the missing gearbox parts ... and then the body, and it gets worse - the poorly repaired break, the painted windows, and, worst of all, the badly hacked about wheel arches.

TBH I think it's at it's money already, and I hope the winner plans to break it for spares & give the body a Viking burial.

Maybe we should send ASCII art flowers via "ask seller a question" ?

Your points are exceedingly valid, but look at all those parts for the picking

andyaus wrote:

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Your points are exceedingly valid, but look at all those parts for the picking

Yeah, but 80 GBPs worth? When the problem areas on the chassis are all the usual suspects?