Thank you GCM, enjoy the variety in rc rig reviews you present, which always come with much inspiration for fellow rc model enthusiasts and in this episode, really nice and in depth reviewed Beetles!

Love the Herbie, I think were going to try this too! I love both chassis! Great review! 👍

Amazing masterpiece as usual! Thx guys!

Great kits guys. Love this review.

In the early 1970's my best friend had one of the actual Herbie The Love Bug cars from the film. It wasn't the one that split in half. It was one that was used in parked scenes, and for promotional use. The sun roof was not real, it was only on the outside. It had the most beautiful paint I have ever seen on any car. It wasn't white, it was a very deep multi layer pearl. In the sunlight you could see down into the layers and see every color of the rainbow. From a distance, or in the shade, it just looked white.

@TheTankRC

4 жыл бұрын

Nice, actually I painted mine pearl white because I did not want to have a true white paint.

@DFDuck55

2 жыл бұрын

@Dr. Bri-Borg: In the 1968 Disney film "The Love Bug".

@DFDuck55

2 жыл бұрын

@Dr. Bri-Borg: No I don't know. We just knew that it had been used in parking lot scenes in the film, and for advertising.

Awesome vide, keep up the nice work

Hi, you are so right with the shocks. I love them so much. After you telling me that I have to use them and try them they are awesome. I use them now not only on the cmax but on ALL of my rigs. Thanks again for the best idea of all. Cheers mate. Jens

@GCMRacing1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Great shocks yes!

@jenslothert7129

4 жыл бұрын

@@GCMRacing1 I look all of your videos. Great done. I decided definitely to order next the second cmax for my second Range Rover. This time the 4 door. Cheers mate

Alas; I came for a performance comparison! Great presentation and beautiful cars!

Cool VWs, on very different chassis’s. Great video 👍🏻😎

Nice video guys. Just getting back into the hobby and have been eyeing this bug. Too bad no one seems to be into racing these enough to do like a Class 11 RC spec series like the real baja bugs. Those things are fantastic. And since they're pretty much all stock except for maybe the tires, the same rules could apply to the RC bugs as well.

I love us Canadians EH! Keep up the great work guys! Asplenia.

Always wanted to get one of these but was turned off by the body post holes. Great ideas for keeping those bodies clean!

Great video guys

@GCMRacing1

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Still can't believe you guys thrashed the tomahawk and scorpions like that.

I'd try low kV brushless; either normal or all in one. My project would be an AWD Karmann Ghia restomod with a light kit. Magnet body posts for a clean look.

good job to both of you Bravo Zulu

Stupende... ciao dall'Italia

Chrometrim stickers wasn’t doing it for me on my bug. So i bent up and made my own trim out of some 2mm 316stainless tig filler rod. and glued them into the grooves with clear glue before painting the body👌🏼😅 ALOT of fiddly work,but turned out good.

@rjz1313

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! I had to do something about the fake headlights myself. Do you have a video of this custom trim?

Hi can you tell me where I can get headlight buckets for this model please as the kit comes with silver horable things

Man I talk alot... lol it's always nice and fun to do a ridge review with you.

Hi love your vids I just have a question there is an option we can extend the chassis but what about the drive shaft pls help

Hi Please can you advise what you used for the soft roof on the herbie

Hey. Awesome herbie...how did you do the fabric top?

Bellissime queste 2 beetle -----

Frank's cars top is basically a Targa that was for the beetle.

Herbie’s cool, but stripes don’t look right over the ragtop.

Ce Papa génial appartient à,,,,,,, Hahaha, nice t-shirt 👍

Hello Im just in the process of building an M06 beetle and have got to the part where I fit the servo and have noticed that in with the two sticky pads that hold down the receiver and ESC there’s also a Square bit of sticky back foil and was just wondering if you knew where it goes I’ve had a few looks over the manual and can’t see where it goes any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

@GCMRacing1

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. I don't know. I had a thought that some of the thin foil might be to cover the gaps in the gear case halves so you don't get dirt inside the gears. Otherwise I don't know. It might be just extra stuff.

@imlee5217

2 жыл бұрын

I found out that it’s for covering the steering servo wires so that the battery don’t cause interference and or ware through the wires I was told buy someone on KZread where it goes and that it shows you on step 25 in the manual and he was right

Hi! great beetles! Which ecx shocks are those exactly? Having trouble finding small ones, seeing allot of 78mm and up in some searches.

@GCMRacing1

4 жыл бұрын

exc213000 is the number!

@rjz1313

4 жыл бұрын

@@GCMRacing1 Haha! Thank you so much. Keep up the tiny work!

I have both of these cars. I also have the even older M-02L beetle but I never built it. I modified my MF-01X beetle with the Yeah racing long suspension. It works very good. I also got oil dampers for it too. It is very hard to set-up, but worth the time. I also did the "Herbie" on my M-06 chassis beetle. I had really hard time getting the decals to stick. Did you have this problem? I also got those decals on eBay from the UK.

@TheTankRC

4 жыл бұрын

No I did not have too much problem with the stickers, they stuck on pretty good the only one that was tricky was the one on the hood for the number

@alfredyost7972

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTankRC Yes, that is the one that I could not get to stick good.

I'd like to buy a beetle, but I am shocked at the lack of replacement bumpers and body parts for it. any suggestions? it's holding back my purchase.

@GCMRacing1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they seem to be ONLY available in the body set unless you order the parts tree from Tamiya directly. (which they do all the time...)

Did you use the ecx barrage shocks. I just bought the mf01x chassis and I'm collecting parts before I build

@GCMRacing1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir, it's ECX 213000 part number

@joshmartin7924

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys

I think Tamiya has 75 mm shocks for their cars as an option specially for the rally cars.

he chaps, how did you make the ragtop for herbie?

@GCMRacing1

2 жыл бұрын

@thetankrc might be able to help you with this question. He has videos linked in the description on this build.

Frank and Chris, together again!! Been a while. LOVE the Bugs guys! Carmine ✈🚂🚙

@CarminesRCTipsandTricks

4 жыл бұрын

François.... A Beetle is a CAR!! 😜😆

@CarminesRCTipsandTricks

4 жыл бұрын

Chris, do you have a part number on those Shocks?? Good idea!

@TheTankRC

4 жыл бұрын

@@CarminesRCTipsandTricks LOL

@TheTankRC

4 жыл бұрын

Quality time with quality friends. 👍😜👌

@CarminesRCTipsandTricks

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTankRC indeed!! 👍👍🍻🍺

What! No punch buggies? What a wasted opportunity.

@TheTankRC

4 жыл бұрын

LOL so true, we missed out on a good opportunity that's for sure. 😜

You know they're re-releasing the Terra scorcher?

@brspeedysgarage

4 жыл бұрын

Brad Kalman hadn’t seen that, I had one of the originals, not a bad piece.

Where does a man get those wheels like is on that hurby bug?

@GCMRacing1

4 жыл бұрын

I think those are the Tamiya kit wheels...

Decent bugs. I'm old school when it comes to RC so, body posts have never bothered me.

I hated the poles poking the body

@GCMRacing1

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, no kidding! I don't know why these manufacturers keep these post and clips. I know it's 'cheap' but there's lots of other ways to do that.

sound like Bob and Doug instead of beer it's RC cars

Beautiful vehicles, guys! In the first Herbie movie in some shots, he had very wide deep dish racing rims and tires. You probably know that Hot Wheels makes a die cast Herbie model that accurately replicates the racing rims. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaiNqZWvpcWyiNY.html If you can install wheels like that....wow - that would be even more amazing!!! What you’ve done is fantastic!!