ebay

[hederjr]

Amazing what some people will try. But thats just my opinion!
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-RC-MRP-BOAT-N-KYOSHO-TRAXXAS-TAMIYA_W0QQitemZ5993537872QQcategoryZ2564QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem

[Ron Olson]

It looks like he'll be hanging onto it for another 20 years! I've seen these as recently as 3 years ago and could have bought some at swap meets, one was $75.00 with batteries! I'd like to see who is dumb enough to lay out that kind of money for it. It's not that it wasn't a bad boat but it simply isn't worth that kind of money with all of the newer and better boats now on the market at lower prices.

[bugfanatic]

No way - I had that boat! It had a couple microswitches mounted to the top of the servo for the throttle. I finally tossed what was left of it sometime last year when I found it in the basement. A buddy of mine has a video of me running it into a submerged 2x4 that was floating out in the lake. It tore off my turn fin & prop which took me a week to fix. The piece of wood was waterlogged & not above the surface of the water anymore. Seems I always have my worst luck hitting things I can't see. Like the time as a teen I was 'turfing' a lawn with my headlights off (mom's car) & hit a pile of woodchips & went all Bo & Luke. I guess they had decided to do some landscaping since I was by there earlier. No idea just how much air I got.

[Micho523]

How bad was the car messed up??? Lmao!!!

[Hydro Junkie]

What's really bad is that is the early version. The late version had the decals already applied and cost about half of what he is asking

[decoy706]

What's really bad is that is the early version. The late version had the decals already applied and cost about half of what he is asking
I still have 1 of those same condition and 2 of the Pringles in the box same condition and tried trading for the newer model with the wigglets but no luck. I would sell mine in a heartbeat for that kind of money LOL about $100 is tops and I'm an MRP collector :D

[n.h.schmidt]

Hi everyone
You guys are right . The Ebay add is a total ripoff. The boat at beas is maybe worth $80 to $120 . If run as orginally intended ,they are dogs compaired newer LSH boats. I have three of them. One I have modified to work with a SS1 700 type motor using much bigger props (M445,P220 and K45). The boat really runs good now. It can run 33mph + for five min or more with good 3300's. Its not reall all that hard to do either. The worst is makeing a new motor mount for the 700. Once that is done the rest isn't so bad. n.h.schmidt

[Ron Olson]

Four days, two hours to go and no bids yet. Anyone surprised? :D

[bugfanatic]

Actually the car wasn't messed up at all. It bent the front license plate under the front bumper, but in Michigan you don't need 2 of them anyway so it got tossed. Car was still great - my mom had it for a few more years. It was a '77 Olds Omega which was a 6 cyl Nova clone. Not the cool Nova years, the later years where they got boxy. Anyway, we went back the next day to check it all out & I hit that woodchip pile dead center. I couldn't have planned it better. It had to have been from a dump truck because it was a tall mound (about 3') & about 8-10 feet wide. From what we could tell we flew more than 20 feet. There were a few surprises back then driving my mom's car, but that's for the off-topic forum.

As for the MRP Bud, it was what it was. It had a plastic hull that you had to reshape so the bottom had some bite to it. But it had a cool nylon gear setup to run 2 motors on 1 prop shaft. I enjoyed the snot out of mine. Every now & then the solder at the batteries would get warm enough to desolder themselves, but reattach & just keep running it. Heck, I never even let my batteries cool down & they were those horrid Saft battery packs. Saft was one of the first to make the 6-cell packs like we see today & I don't think they were any larger than 1000 or 1200mah back then.

[macleod]

Four days, two hours to go and no bids yet. Anyone surprised? :D

2 days 21 hours to go....and......wait for it....... 0 bids

I'd offer $1 USD for it... :p But is that too much ???? :confused:

[Ron Olson]

Go for it Ross before it's lost forever! :D

[macleod]

Go for it Ross before it's lost forever! :D

OH oh oh, the excitement is too much.....1 day 5 hours to go......and you guessed it......

0 BIDS......... :p :p :p ;) :D

[Ron Olson]

Three hours, 43 minutes and no bids. Time to start playing the "Final Jeopardy" music! :D
It's not like this is a '57 Nomad with almost no miles on it!

[hederjr]

If this guy only knew what his boat is worth.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5994705564&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[Ron Olson]

HAHAHA! He relisted it!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5994910100

[decoy706]

If this guy only knew what his boat is worth.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5994705564&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Hey leave my boat alone I want to buy it cheap heh heh heh It's the one I've been looking for that one has the wiglets all I need is the hull....... :D

[hederjr]

Only if I can have the rest of it. :D

[macleod]

HAHAHA! He relisted it!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5994910100

He states this 'MINT UNOPENED IN A NEAR MINT BOX' ,but he has photos of the inside of the box, hardly mint unopened is it.

I just love to nit pick......

[hederjr]

Its back again!
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-MODEL-RC-BOAT-N-KYOSHO-TRAXXAS-TAMIYA_W0QQitemZ5996410667QQcategoryZ2564QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem

[Chris LaPanse]

I love it when he said that they hve sold for near $1000. That one just cracked me up.