Day's goodies and Cheap Foam Tires

I went to the local hobbytown today and found some goodies.

There are these things called 4wd Mini Racers that are smaller cars that basically have batteries, a motor, and an on switch. They have bumpers around them so they can run into walls and keep going. Yeah, yeah, I don't get it either, but here's the sweet part.

There were a ton of tire kits with foam tires for half off. Here in the picture, you can see the different kits. The orang set was 2 bucks and fit right on the foam tire kit rims for the xmods. Two of the tires are wider than fit stock, but nothing some trimming can't fix.

The green and orange sets have some really wide tires. The rear tires could easily be cut in half to make two tires out of one. In the picture you see one of the tires around the xmod foam rims, fits perfectly. Each tire pack comes with double sided tape to attach the tires as well. Those sets were $4 each. The rims look like they could be pretty easily adaptable in a snap on snap off type fasion. This would allow me to run some really wide rims.

You'll also notitce the gold rims, these were $3 model tires. The tires have really good grip on them, but they'll be more difficult to adapt to the xmods.

The blue rims come with a shaft and lock nuts that work on xmods. They'll need a bigger hole to be adapted to xmods, but stock tires do still stretch around them as one has a tire on it in the picture (though not as wide as they should be).

You'll also find com drops and a 180 motor from the $4 toothbrush at walmart. That's still one of the best motors.

You'll also see two black Dean's plugs in the middle of the picture. They were $1.55 a pair.

There's also that set of weights in the top right... it was $1.20 and I was planning to use it on some crawler ZZMT's. They have screw holes in the middle of each one to mount them.

Not a bad day's shopping. I was already wearing down my xmod set of foam tires. These seem a little thicker and should last quite a while. The orange ones are really soft and should have some really good grip. I might have to go back and buy some more.

And for anyone readin all the way through this, They also had a Mini-Z that has been there for like 3 years. It's marked at $70, but the guy said he could sell it for $50. I'm really considering it.... perhaps I could walk in there and say $45 and see what happens. What do you all think?