Massey Ferguson BMW M1 G4 - Found at auction.

[Butter Face]

Got this at an auction and paid nothing for it, Looked interesting and thought I'd take a punt.

Never seen a model made by Massey Ferguson (don't they do tractors?)

Any idea when it may be from?

Cheers







Needs some D batteries so will be trying it out soon.

[ferrisbueller]

I think Massey Ferguson were the sponsors of the car, the car itself was made by Gama I think. I had one. They were pretty advanced for the time and had loads of functions, but they muller batteries.

How much did you pay for it?

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3360999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_uqL9Fnoc

Edited by ferrisbueller on Friday 4th May 23:27

[Butter Face]

Cheers for those links! Definitely need to get some batteries in there!

[elmo214]

is this bmw for sale?

[elmo214]

have 2 and a half cars here and none of them work,
band 1 ,band 4,band 6
the one on band 4 is in impecable condition and as new but has no transmitter,the other two i bought 30 years ago when i was a boy and they don't respond to their transmitter anymore

[Butter Face]

I sold it to a PH'er a long while back unfortunately. Maybe he'll update with how he's got on?

[elmo214]

do you or any other person know how to get a hold of a band 4 /27145 mghz radio control for this car i bought on ebay?
http://www.ebay.de/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&a...

its nearly perfect,just the antenna and the battery cover is missing,it works but does not respond to any other signals with my other radio controls from my other 2 bmw m1's only when i touch the antennas together(as i said they wont work at all anymore).

[MrYannah]

hi, the car I bought does work but the range is only about 1 metre which is a shame. Its band 2 and I have tried to figure out how to extend the range but no luck so far. I have since found anohter which is band 3, the range for this is fine but the communication between controller and car is erratic so as to be useless. I am going to keep tinkering with it and have considered trying to change the crystals to see if this makes any difference.

If you cant find a band 4 controller then I think the only option would be to swap the crystal on the controller to a band 4 crystal. For me this would be a bit risky, it involves soldering, which is a tricky business at the best of times. Still its great to have a childhood toy to put on the shelf for show.

[Olf]

so cool to see this. I used to have one of these was a highlight of childhood toys.

[Butter Face]

Cool to see it is going well!!