Christmas is coming...

Well, they arrived, and all are cosmetically in brilliant condition. Better yet, they arrived on my birthday (what are the odds LOL)

Next test will obviously be taking them to the track, the 485 appears to be unused (no joke) but the Super Hikari had a lot of hair, red carpet fibres and dust inside the gearbox, so a quick stripdown and clean was in order

However, I'm gonna say the Super Hikari might be a record holder here on BPT for the oldest tires on a Plarail model




No, those aren't black Trackmaster tyres, these are the original 30+ year old tyres (probably from 1988) that have perished so much that they've turned a translucent reddish-black, and also rock solid.



I've had to gently peel them off using a thin blade to split them, but yeah, these things are fossilised lol

Update when I get them onto the track 😁