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Can anyone ID these shocks for me, are they a tamiya hop up, non tamiya, I have not a clue
It’s an original 58058 Blackfoot chassis as far as i am aware

They look to be early 80's 1/8th off road gp rc. No tamiya sure. Yankee mardave or other like these brands.

stingray-63 wrote:

They look to be early 80's 1/8th off road gp rc. No tamiya sure. Yankee mardave or other like these brands.

Would they have a resale value Flo?

Probably but not too expensive

Or an after market like you G???

Don't look like YOU-G stuff to me I am sure they were always blue. But I do admit they have a very "you-g" looking mounting end, just a straight rod with a hole in it.
Sometimes I look at the old hop-up parts that we had back in the day ( I do still love them ) and can't believe we thought they would make the car better Heavier yes...better ????

Some of the engineering or lack there of is highly questionable, I have a you-g front shock setup for my Frog, the one with the balance tube, and am really not sure what they were thinking, how is that even suppose to work , sure it looks cool but???

But to be fair the trend still continues today, replacing perfectly good moulded parts for colored alloy parts of questionable engineering and manufacture. I have always found the moulded parts have a bit of "give " to them where the alloy stuff just bends or breaks off or transfers the shock load to another component further in that breaks One needs to look no further than the Asia T's website to see the incredible array of shiny alloy bits available, very pretty, very pretty.....

There were a lot of overnight start up part suppliers back in the day so it's hard to know, they are cool looking and if they work I say clean them up and use them

As as we are into shocks would love to know who made these. Apparently they fit the Willy M38 chassis.

Team CRP????

waterbok wrote:

As as we are into shocks would love to know who made these. Apparently they fit the Willy M38 chassis.

They look cool, nice design

OK waterbok,, you win!
Those are very cool. I have never seen any like that before, I wonder how well they work? Anything that would take the bounce out would be good.

Although I was not a fan of the new chassis for the wild willy II at first I did build one for my wife to run. The first change after we ran it was to add shocks! Then I understood and liked the new chassis idea