Yikes! Never mind
I am the original owner of a 1993 Tamiya Mountaineer which I still have today. It is currently sitting right here in my office along with a few other R/Cs. If I remember correctly I paid $350 for the kit ... but as you see the kits go for upwards to a grand now.
Tamiya made three different kits: The original Hilux, which is shown in the above Video and has manually locking hubs and hardly any plastic parts. Then they made a Bruiser, and then they made a Mountaineer. The quality of the kits dropped with each revision, making it more suitable for mass production.
They are so popular that Axial Racing made a version of it however it has 4-link coil suspension and only a 1-speed transmission making it far less realistic. But for something more realistic, take a look at RC4WD's Trail Finder Kit:
http://store.rc4wd.com/Trail-Finder-2-Truck-Kit-wMojave-Body-Set_p_2108.html The price is comparable to what I remember paying for my kit 20 yrs ago, however my kit had a lot of cast aluminum parts whereas this RC4WD kit has much stronger Billet Aluminum parts guaranteed to last longer.
An
amazing customer in Canada took one of the Axial kits and turned it into a Mini-Me for Marlin, check it out:
A few more pics here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150146905992725.288530.178624092724Regards,
BigMike
