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all based on the Ruskit, AYK manufactured a controller that was held in the left hand and had a lever that controlled the speed using the right hand. This controller was the standard in Japan for a while. AYK also OEM various slot car parts and chassis to
American companies. AYK also produced OEM parts for such companies such as Trinity during the 1980s for the 1/10-scale buggy market.
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market due to this class being less popular with overseas buyers. Early 1/10th AYK radio controlled cars from the 'golden era' (the early to mid 1980s command high prices) Many AYK slot cars seem to have been imported to
Australia and were actually stamped and sold as AYK. Australia would be a better source for AYK cars if one is hunting.
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AYK manufactured slot car chassis that included brass chassis, stamped steel chassis (similar to the Flexi from Parma), and a bolt together parallel dragster chassis to name a few. One item of note from AYK was the controller that AYK made for slot car racing. Unlike the current controllers that are
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are now extremely rare outside Japan and as such have inflated prices. Prices in Japan have also risen on and off-road cars dues to the ease that the
Internet allows overseas buyers to use Japanese auctions. While 1/12 on-road still may be purchased at reasonable prices from the Japanese second hand
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R&D Ishihara is a company named after its founder Naoki
Ishihara. He is a 1/12-scale racer in Japan that developed his own ideas about what he needed in a 1/12-scale car. Before the introduction of the NX series he was producing his own after market parts for 1/12-scale cars. Even though AYK
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between the right rear wheel and the motor compartment, but Ayk placed theirs within the axle, which centered the weight more proportionately and kept the differential gears protected. By 1984, they resorted to an outboard gear diff much like the current Delta of the time.
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produced the NX series, they still competed against them with their own series of cars. Ishihara is not the only company AYK produced cars for, many
European companies imported AYK cars and simply placed their sticker on the box.
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title in 1980, the first of three consecutive titles for the company. In 1984, Joel
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