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Nice find Carni, some gravity defiance in tose vids:thumb:

looks like a descent crawler
 
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cool vids :thumb: interesting to see what can be done
 
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Essentially you have two different types of crawlers. Shaft driven and Motor on Axle (MOA) based chassis.

In those two categories though there are many variations or models. In each you will have crawlers and scale trucks based on those designs too.
MOA - Enroute Berg, RC4WD Bully and more recently the Axial XR10
Shaft - Losi Comp/Night Crawler, Axial AX10, HPI Crawler King, Venom Creeper, Axial SXC10

There are quite a few more but those are what I guess would be the primary complete solutions. Your typical off-the-shelf purchases.
You could got to a competition though and not recognise anything visually due to customisations.

For a long time there really was nothing off the shelf that fit the mold, so there are a hell of a lot of third party add-ons for more typical cars. The other thing was a lot of things were scratch built and parts harvested from different chassis.
 
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Wheel size, which is common to the "crawler" classes, where 1.9 is common to the "scaler" classes.
 
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Scalers have things like how much wheel/tyre coverage the fenders have to have. It has to have say a maximum height between tyre and body. Generally though any production car body on a standard scale chassis would be fine unless you did something dramatic to it.
Crawlers may have to have a body with certain characteristics like that it goes from axle to axle coverage. Things like min width may come into it depending on the class and who is making the regulations.

Then there might be other restrictions like 4ws, digs, winch, etc depend on the class.
 
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Lol. No probs. Probably easiest to let a vid do the talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPzSw9SFrQk&feature=youtube_gdata

there are a couple of different ones but all do the same thing. Because they have full 4wd and spools front and rear the turning circle is ****. By locking the rear drive up, it pivots around that point. They can also be set to free-wheel on the rear to be front wheel drive.
 
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Wouldn't be anything on that rig. Need a camera too!
 
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Hard to say depending on exactly what is in there. Could be anything from say 700 to 1500.

You might think it is tough to get it that expensive but the wheels alone are close to $200 US with tyres. Plus dual motor an possibly dual esc. If he has a couple of Tekin fxr's in there that's about $240.

I'd be leaning towards 1200+ Aud with radio gear :)
 
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