| funny i too used to have mardave model cars, firstly a min stock, which over time was modded and modded for yet more speed !- i eventually fitted and hot motor and i hacked two holes in the side to accomodate the 8.4 v pack, the car used to fly in a straight line, corners were another matter and the car used to look odd with a cell ' hanging out' either side of the body shell, but for a while it was the fastest electiric car in my ' group of RC car mates'- and especially good as it was such a cheap little fun thing not an extremely expensive all siniging all dancing 4WD jap car kit !
i subsequently moved onto a mardave marauder...... an IC 'grass track' car at 1 to 8th scale, basically a slab of metal with an irvine 20 ABC engine bolted onto it, a crude but effective centrifugal clutch, resin wishbones and springs for suspension and foam tyres.........no universal joints in the axles but a circle of rubber that the half shafts were bolted onto, the rubber flexed and you maintained axle rotation...... very very crude but effective- again a screamer of a car in a straight line, get the foam tyres wet and the result was zero grip.....and corners again were difficult to negotiate....
but mardave were british, parts were cheap, and if you ordered parts on a monday after a weekend of crashes the jiffy bag of bits were usually on the door mat by friday....
if you needed one wishbone then 85 pence got you one.... not like tamiya where you have to buy a whole sprue for £25 or bag of parts just to get one item you needed to replace.........the mardave cars lasted alot longer than the other cars i owned from tamiya and kyosho..... simble yet durable was mardaves key qualities.... and they were cheap to own and run....
those were the days.... i look back at running mardave cars with fond memories......
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