I just got a new(used) 8th scale onroad car.

price:0,zip,nada

brand: AE
model: rc300

engine:old irving 20

?'s:
can i change this engine if it doesnt run?
what options do i have?
what bodies,wheels,parts can i use?
steering servo choices??

Call the Smithsonian and see if they will take it. This is one of the first 8th scale cars as well as one fo the first r/c cars ever. You're best bet I would think would be to clean it up real nice and put it on the mantel or find someone that collects old r/c cars as you are not going to find any parts for it unless on ebay and they will be rather used. But it is a very nice piece of r/c history.

what is that cylinder behind the engine? is it the receiver pack?man that thing looks old school!

what is that cylinder behind the engine? is it the receiver pack?man that thing looks old school!

That's the muffler system. I believe it is a brass barrel/expansion thingee. I'm trying to think but I believe this car is early 80s. I believe it went RC250, RC300, and then RC500.

Kevin from St. Clair Shores - is that you? I think that car sat in my basement for 3 years if this is indeed Kevin from StC. I got it from Paul Brower who probably got it with a pile of stuff he bought from a racer getting out of racing in the early 90s.

Too funny.

well, it had a airplane tank on it that had a hole in it,and the fuel line was shot,so in the trash they went!