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Thanks Stingray. The "Royal Ripper" I have heard of/seen before. Just didn't know it was a rebranded Thunder Tiger. I always thought TT only made gas cars

Unfortunately these parts don't match what I see in the various pictures I have found of the "Ripper"....

So the mystery continues

I'm sure that I saw this type of piston. Marui buggy... or Schumacher????

I have checked the Marui Ninja, Samurai, Big Bear, Coors Melling Thunderbird and the Hunter and no match.
I don't know which Schumacher models they could be. Not the old Cats at least

Sure for the Coors mine had yellow shocks. I don't know if robbe or graupner made oïl shocks

We can now exclude the following Schumachers, as there were no matches:

CAT, CAT XL, CAT 2000, CAT 2000 EC, CAT SXII, ProCat, TopCat, Cougar, Cougar 2, Cougar 2000, Cougar SV, Mi1, Mi3.5, Mi4CX and Mi4LP

Maybe from the Royal Ripper

No, the "Ripper" is already excluded, as the parts didn't match

Yes sorry I missed that bit just looked back I think Lars is on to something as it does match Kyosho's sprue style

I'm quite familiar with Kyosho, and they don't match anything from Scorpion, Ultima, Optima or Optima Mid. And not the newer Kyoshos like ZX5, TF5 or TF6 either.

There are quite a few other Kyoshos that I'm not so familiar with, but I have checked with the manuals for Lazer Alpha, Gallop, Gallop MkII, Pegasus, Rocky, Turbo Rocky, Big Brute, Maxxum FF, Lazer ZX, Lazer ZX-R, Plazma MkIII, Raider, Triumph and quite a lot of the newer Fazers etc. but nothing matches.....

These have now been put in my box marked "X-Files"