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Now it is a rarity. Most of first grasshoppers are recycled in pullover or other tupperware

stingray-63 wrote:

I know why it is off roader stamped on your chassis. It is a very early version. The late version have a hole for the front body mount for the hornet

I think that's spot on. It can never have been a long run before they realised they needed a bit of adjustment for the Hornet.
Now the question is indeed - how rare exactly...
Btw, vintage-tamiyaparts is showing the same chassis on one of their pics :

They wrote:

hahahhahahaaha stingray , and outstanding post edou the GH was first released on 14 may 1984 , and the hornet on 9 october 1984 , minus the adjustments to the chassis , which would take aprox 6-8 weeks before release would leave a period of 4 months or less after first release ? does this sound correct guys?

It might go batch-wise, usually they don't produce continuously but do a bunch at a time.
Possibly on the second batch (I don't see much time for many more) they adjusted it for the Hornet already...

Great stuff to figure out.

Edou wrote:

It might go batch-wise, usually they don't produce continuously but do a bunch at a time.
Possibly on the second batch (I don't see much time for many more) they adjusted it for the Hornet already...

Great stuff to figure out.

thanks greatly for all your help , so there is a mk1 and mk2 grasshopper , !!!! you heared it here first lol

I don't know if it was in 1984 but now Tamiya works in "flux tendu". The storage room is empty every night. Maybe tamiya produced a first serial of grass and developped new mold for the hornet or modified the original in few monthes?

stingray-63 wrote:

I don't know if it was in 1984 but now Tamiya works in "flux tendu". The storage room is empty every night. Maybe tamiya produced a first serial of grass and developped new mold for the hornet or modified the original in few monthes?

great info , im glad its sorted out though , just a bit more to discover now