Many, many thanks to JWeston for supplying the decals.
By Attila
24/04/2010 19:47:27
In 1991, I won the local championship ( Tamiya Championship standard class) with my Terra Scorcher, on 7 races, 5 winning, 1 second place and 1 third place. The car was standard equipped, except for rear universal shaft and blue plastic sealed ball bearings on the wheel hubs. The car was so fast that in 2 rounds, I made the all-time lap record, faster than the open class, where my friends were racing Schumacher, Yokomo and so on... I'm still in love with it... Now it is sitting on my desk....
By pikachoo75
10/12/2006 23:07:38
This was my second Tamiya car back when i was a kid. I poured over the Tamiya guide book for ages and felt it was the best spec buggy for the money. Good and easy to race at club level, decent handling and ballraced as std. Very durable, mainly due to the fact that the wishbones were made from kinda "jelly" rubber/plastic. Fitted with universal joint drive shafts at the front as standard too. The Terra Scorcher also had a polycarb chassis cover which tried to keep the grit and sand out of the speedo and also acted to complete the driver and cockpit. The CVA yellow shocks provided good smooth damping, though the limited set up for ride height was due to the molded "stops" on the wishbones that was inherited from the single shock models. Great buggy,rewarding to drive and easy to maintain. Unfortunatly my Terra Scorcher suffered from a brittle chassis, which shattered in two at the first round of a club meet!
By Jimbo4042
02/10/2006 22:51:24
Another typical Tamiya job of turning out another car with a previously used chassis. This of course uses the already pretty decent Thundershot Chassis and in many ways is like the Hotshot 2 was to the Boomerang type cars (only better)
The Terra Scorcher came already hopped up with its unique rear anti roll bar, white wheels and front and rear adjustable upper arms plus front UJ's. Whereas the Thundershot was around £85 - 90.00 RRP, the Terra was £125.00 -130.00 RRP. Taking into account these hop ups plus ball races as standard plus a twin shock front suspension set up this was a very competitively priced package indeed. I always felt and still do that prior to the Manta Ray chassis, this was Tamiya's best 4wd by far. It was light, very adjustable, strong (apart from the dreaded A5) and it was nimble.
Prices for this car are low, you can get them for as little as £35.00 and that is a total bargain. Great car, try one, you will be very suprised!
