Tamiya BullHead R/c Truck

 So this past week I decided to dust off my R/C car & truck and get them back to operational. A good cleaning, a few bolts tightened and they were ready. Actually I needed a few new body mounts for my car so that remained on the shelf. I did get the BullHead out in the yard for a few spins. Since my Batteries have been laying for a few years the run times were pretty low. I am hoping that with a few more charge discharge cycles they get back to normal otherwise new batteries end up setting you back quite a few bucks.

As I was looking around for some tune up/spruce up parts for my truck I found out something very interesting. I am apparently a trend setter!  I built this truck 20 years ago. its been discontinued for 10-15 years. Well Tamiya is re releasing the BullHead (and clod buster) this summer and it should be available late august.

For those of you not familiar with the BullHead it is a clod buster with a different body. This is fantastic news. First off it is a top notch truck. The parts are very well made. (It only comes as a kit, I consider it an advanced build. 20 years ago it took me 12 hours and I would bet it would be the same today.) Secondly I could use a few replacement body parts. Mostly the chrome items you see in the picture. When I used to race the truck in a mixed class race I ran over a few smaller off road buggies which often resulted in a flip over situation so the roll bar and exhaust stacks have some wear. Searching for those parts right now yeilded little results and those that I did find were expensive. The re-release should fix that.

I long ago made up a battery cable that allowed me to use 2, 6 cell Battery packs at once for longer run times. This is a must do remember this thing has 2 motors where most cars only have 1.  I am also going to upgrade the manual speed control to an electronic version. Which by the way Tamiya's new BullHead kit has the electronic speed control standard.

Now go out and get an R/C car or truck and have some fun!