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Step again in time to the golden period of RC racing with the RC10T Classic, a trustworthy recreation of the enduring RC10T from 1991. As a tribute to the glory days of off-road racing, this traditional mannequin embodies the essence of its predecessor, capturing the spirit and efficiency that made the unique RC10T a legend on the monitor.
With its black-anodized aluminum tub chassis, the RC10T Classic pays homage to the unique design that captured the hearts of RC fans worldwide. This timeless chassis offers the proper stability of power and agility, permitting drivers to deal with any terrain with confidence and precision.
Team Associated is thrilled to have fun our sixtieth anniversary alongside the discharge of the RC10T Classic. It’s greater than only a mannequin; it is a journey again in time to a interval when RC racing was at its peak. Get able to unleash the ability of the Stealth transmission and write your personal chapter in RC racing historical past with the RC10T Classic by Team Associated.
This copy comes from the traditional RC10T field:
Team Associated’s RC10T is the quickest, most dependable race truck as a result of it was developed by the identical successful engineering that produced 9 World Champions.
Like all Associated RC race vehicles, the RC10T was toughened, refined, and confirmed in competitors earlier than the design was finalized. Even although our drivers had no truck racing expertise, they took on all comers from Coast to Coast to verify your RC10T is a winner, too. RC10Ts took first and second within the Florida Winter Championships towards a subject of 450 entries.
Unlike different truck and RC10 conversion kits, no compromises have been made with the RC10T. Working carefully with the most recent ROAR specs for Offroad Truck racing, our R&D staff designed a purpose-built machine with the response and dealing with severe racers demand.
Thus, the entrance and rear monitor of the RC10T have been widened for optimum cornering speeds. The wheelbase was lengthened, and a particular slender bulkhead improves high-speed stability. To address the bigger tires and longer suspension journey, shock tower design was important as properly.
Even the physique of the RC10T is a part of the successful mixture. Vacuum-formed low and light-weight, it protects the shock towers as properly.
The result’s predictably superior. With its excessive effectivity Stealth transmission, light-weight chassis and suspension, full race shocks and grippy rubber, the RC10T delivers explosive efficiency, even with inventory class motors and batteries.
THE RC10T. CHAMPIONSHIP-WINNING ENGINEERING.
The Truck class of off-road competitors makes distinctive calls for in chassis, suspension, and total design. Team Associated’s RC10T advantages from the race-proven engineering of our 2-time World Champion RC10. But in reality, the RC10T shares solely the alloy monocoque tub and racing shocks of the legendary RC10.
Prototypes of the RC10T proved extremely aggressive, ending first and second within the 1991 Florida Winter Championships. Unique options, all of that are included into the manufacturing RC10T, embrace an extended wheelbase and tremendous extensive monitor to optimize the Truck Class laws. Suspension arms are precision molded from virgin nylon and bolstered to be exceptionally robust, but very mild. The four-wheel unbiased suspension, shocks, and towers additionally permit for very lengthy journey.
Truck racing wheels and tires have been additionally developed specifically for the RC10T. This rerelease RC10T comes with customary extensive rear tires and the famously banned slender entrance tires. All wheels are light-weight, 3-piece modular design, molded completely concentric in virgin nylon. The slender entrance tires have been designed for the present ROAR Truck Class guidelines of the period and used on the successful prototype RC10Ts.
Other Specifications
- Tire Diameter 3.75″ (95.25mm)
- Wheelbase 11.2″ (284.48mm)
- Max. Clearance 2.16″ (54.86mm)
- Suspension Travel 2.48″ (62.99mm)
THE DEBUT OF THE RC10T 1991
FLORIDA WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Debuting on the 1991 Florida Winter Championships, the RC10T made its mark within the RC historical past books. With Cliff Lett in first place and Butch Kloebber in second, a brand new period of race-winning vans was born.
NARROW TIRE CONTROVERSY The ’91 Florida Winter Championships was the primary and final time the slender entrance wheels and tires would see skilled racing. After Cliff’s and Butch’s wins, they have been deamed an unfair benefit and subsequently have been banned from future use at top-level racing occasions. This new rerelease of the RC10T options the unique banned slender tires to copy the debut successful look.