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Alongside the Boomerang, I started restoring the Terra Scorcher.
This one had been on my shelf for much longer than the Boomerang and I don't know where I got it from!

This Terra Scorcher came with its box, its original manual and a Fire Dragon body. There were also a few Hop-Ups in the box.

I took advantage of having dismantled this one and the Boomerang to do a combined cleaning.
Here's an overview of the box's contents:

 

It came with gold rims, certainly an accessory of the period.
It also has front and rear Hi-Caps, but these were used for my 2001 Avante ( Resto Avante 2001 )

There are also a few new vintage plastic parts

 

 

And here's the general condition:

 

 

 


 

Once everything was disassembled, I was able to start making a parts list:

-white rims as box art
-body set if possible, as the paint isn't very nice
-tires
-despite the presence of the original shock absorbers, the bronze bushes are missing.
-both front knuckes

 

I don't think anything else is missing, except that the bumper is scratched, but I'll try to get it back.

Here are all the parts after cleaning: 





 

Finally i got all the needed parts to finish this one too :Body Set Rims And the new front knuckles  I've started reassembling the rear transmission with the assembly of the differential   And then put all together in the rear differential case   

The next step was to install the rear suspension arms.

 

 

The plastic looks damaged in the picture, but in reality it's not as bad as it looks on the picture.
I could have replaced them with re-re ones, but since they're not damaged or cracked, I preferred to leave the original ones.

Installed the motor

 

And finally the stabilisator 



 

The terra is the only one I keep on this serie.

Love builds like this!

I do have a Terra Scorcher body, but no TS.
Got it with a Super Sabre chassis I bought, that is missing the body 

A little progress here...
Once I received the parts for the missing BB17 brass damper mount, I was able to get on with it.

The clean chassis is ready to receive the components.

 

Installing the MSC



And here with the steering servo

 

The next step was the installation of the steering liks. As a few of them has suffered and had bad markings from the previous owner, i replaced all the plastic adjusters

 

And everything installed

 


 

The i installed the previously cleaned and refilled shocks

Front:


Rear:


I also checked the wheel hubs and i had to replace some of them as they where cracked

 

Had new wheel nut ready

 

And then i assembled everyhing together with the new rims and tires

 

 

 

 

The next step was to start working on the front bumper. As i don't want to put a re-re bumper on it and couldn't find a new one, i decided to give it a try and repair it. I started sanding the old one.
Here as it was:
 

After a while sanding, here the result. I could have don a bit more, but then it would have been too noticeable so i stopped it.

 

I'm going to give it a good polish and hope it comes back shiny.

The last thing i did, was trimming the body.. (i hate lexan  )



I'm going to wait a few days to raise my motivation level for painting.