Just can't get enough of these Traxxas Villain boats ...
Hiya Guys,
Wow, it's been awhile. Anyhoo, I've went & done it again. I just can't seem to get enough of these Traxxas villain boats. I know I got out of the hobby primarily but I thought I'd still be nice to have a boat or two to dabble with on occasion . I finally went and bought myself a really nice Venom King of Shaves V.2 twin because I've always wanted one since I drooled on one at my local HobbyTown when they were new.
Well I recently finished getting the ekos set up and ready to run once I'm back on my feet, and I'm almost done setting up my new exceed MaxStone 8 crawler as a 3s multi-purpose Trail rig and that got me to thinking that it would be nice to have another Traxxas Villain project to work over and setup that I might even make a trailer for to pull behind my MaxStone so I went on the search for one.
I didn't realize how rare the villain boats are getting since I bought my last villain let alone how hard it's getting to find a really good deal on one. The first two places I checked where the classifieds at RC Tech and RC Universe only to find out that neither one of them has had a villain listed since the last one that came up for sell at RC Tech and few years ago which I purchased. Then I checked with eBay and figured out why. Apparently Traxxas villains in really nice condition have been selling for a mint compared to what they use to sell for. I did find one I was interested in on eBay but I decided to pass on it because $160 was a little much IMO. I put my googlefu to use which led me to several that were for sale on Craigslist in a couple different states so I started making some phone calls to inquire about them which finally led me to this all original Villain IV Chaparral from the mid to early 80's that I got for $100 shipped.
The gentleman I bought it from decided to tear it apart so he could strip it down and repaint it but he didn't get any farther than taking it almost completely apart before he sat it aside. Thankfully he had all the parts and all the original nuts bolts and screws to to put it back together again. It also came with a pair of vintage Trinity monster horsepower 1987 World Finals 40,000k motors which I definitely plan on installing in the boat. The boat had a couple years of dust setting on it (literally) and the ABS plastic might be a little yellow but it's not brittle or cracked anywhere. I gave it a real good douching with some furniture polish and it cleaned it right up and conditioned the ABS nicely. Overall even though it's a 35 some year old boat it's in really nice shape and will make a worthy villain project boat
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Originally Posted by properchopper
. I haven't really been active on the board since the layout of the board was changed a couple years ago but I still have a few Villain build threads floating around & I still like to dabble with the vintage boats. 
, then I remembered fun RC boats so I checked with them real quick and I'll be damned if they didn't have one so I ordered it before someone else beat me to it. It also seems that most everyone is out of stock and back ordered on k&s 11/32 tubing which I usually always order from Tower Hobbies since they're generally the most reasonably priced out of everyone. Their website says they're backordered until early next month so I guess I'll bide my time and order some when they get it in stock again to upgrade the drives in this villain.
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