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Re: 8448 Super Car -- a rave and a review
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Mon, 8 May 2000 22:13:51 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> After weeks of not having enough spare time, I finally built my 8448 Super
> Car Mark 2. It was worth the wait. It is simply the best model I have built,
> and I think it will be hard to beat, superb looks and nifty mechanicals.
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> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8448
How large is it when fully assembled ?
> If you haven't had the pleasure, there's a working gearbox (5 forward, 1
> reverse), working differential, rack-n-pinion steering (a nice long rack
> too, useful for other projects), and a looks-like-its-working engine (you
> have to add a motor -- not included -- if you want to actually have it
> self-propelled). It looks divine, and the working convertible hood is so
> much fun :-)
I like the technic trucks like the barcode truck and the tow-truck, do you
think a 'truck-head' would be impressed enough ?
> In the interests of objective reviewing, what's not so good:
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> 1. it costs heaps (and this is the only reason for not buying it IMHO)
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> 2. the exhausts should have been chrome and not grey. I tried to simply swap
> the grey sleeves for the chrome macaroni off the 5561 Bigfoot 4x4
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> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5561
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> but sadly they are the wrong diameter and fell off too easily, so I had to
> put the grey sleeves back on. I will need to do a bit more replacing of rear
> parts to see if I can get my chrome exhausts to fit on.
Grey exhausts, is that common for Technic vehicles ?
> 3. I'd like to put someone in the driver's seat but I don't have a figure
> anywhere near big enough. The biggest one I have is the fireman from the
> 8253 Fire Rescue Helicopter:
Those Technic dudes are pretty spindly chaps. From the look of their
'reconstructed' legs they must have ridden motor bikes.
Or you could use a Belville blonde woman and pretend she's Kylie Minogue
scale-wise.
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8253-1
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> but he looks like a 6-year-old at the wheel. I guess I'll have to try to
> make a figure, but doubt I can make one smooth-enough looking to match the
> beauty of the car.
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> Future plans. Apart from rebuilding the car to be right-hand drive (C'mon
> Aussie C'mon), I plan to try to fit my RCX into it to enable remote control
> of the engine and steering. Sadly I don't think it's possible to control the
> gears from the RCX, but I'm open to suggestions. I can get hold of a second
> (and perhaps even a third) RCX if the need arises, although at that rate,
> you'd have to tow a trailer on the back of the 8448 to carry them all, which
> might detract slightly from the glamour of the car :-)
You might have to start a conversion business adapting them for Australian
shelves. ;^)
pete.w
> If you are interested in buying an 8448, I have only seen them in
> Myer(Brisbane CBD) and Toys'R'Us. I have never seen them discounted :-(
>
> Kerry
>
> --
> ===========================================================================
> Dr Kerry Raymond, Distinguished Research Fellow kerry@dstc.edu.au
> CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology Ph: +61 7 3365 4310
> University of Queensland 4072 Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311
> ===================================================== www.dstc.edu.au/kerry
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| "Peter White" <aztekium@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:Fu9Hr3.BxH@lugnet.com... (...) Super (...) built, (...) It is about the same size as all the other 'super' technic cars (8860, 8880), that is; (grabs for tape measure and handily (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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