200+ MPH Tether Cars

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:13 pm

I could care less about tether cars, but damn, still... 200+ MPH is pretty cool
http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpGa ... tether.mov

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:18 pm

Link no work. Takes me to home page.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:34 pm

You can right click "Save As..." on the link above (I edited the text in the link above)
or
here's a link to the movie embedded in a page
http://www.muchosucko.com/video-200mphtethercars.html

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:37 pm

You wouldn't want to fall down in the ring when that thing is going. I imagine that tether would be like a cheese slicer going through Velveeta.

JDM-R34 · Post by **JDM-R34** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:42 pm

talk about being close lined, that would hurt like shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttte, There's no point in having a RC car that fast, It'll be out of sight in like a few seconds, other wise it'll be out of range, so I mean that's faster than most real cars.

cj · Post by cj » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:36 pm

The scale on those cars is about the same as an Xmod/iWaver. So scale speed would be 200+ * 24 = 4800+ Scale Miles per hour. Now how can we get one of those engines in an iWaver?

MattPaintballer · Post by **MattPaintballer** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 2:55 pm

I'm still kind of confused on what a tether car is but whatever...

If you want to see the video without saving it on your comp and without porno ads all over the place, you can see it at Atomic Mods

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:24 pm

tether cars are almost as old as the combustion engine. there's an antique toy store near me with some classics from the 40's. these guys were true pimps as materials were scarce due to war rationing so they had to improvise pretty much the whole car.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:34 pm

the body made out of roo scrotum?

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:35 pm

wow these seem kinda awsome to make, really complecated though

And a lot more Pictures and a lot of helpful information here
http://www.amrca.com/about0.htm

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:28 pm

cj wrote:The scale on those cars is about the same as an Xmod/iWaver. So scale speed would be 200+ * 24 = 4800+ Scale Miles per hour. Now how can we get one of those engines in an iWaver?

you would have to get rid of most of the plastic shit.

stampede_dude · Post by **stampede_dude** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:14 pm

they arent r/c cars...petty little cox .049 engines on them. they do not have any way of throttle control so its just stop or go.