The Clod Buster Junior (Japanese: クラッドバスター Jr., Kuraddo Basutā Junia}) is a Wild Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on September 27, 1988.
It was based on Tamiya 1/10 RC monster truck Clod Buster, which in turn was based on the 3rd generation Chevrolet C/K pickup truck.
A modified Clod Buster Jr., named the Moby-Dick (Japanese: 白鯨, Mobī Dikku), was featured in the manga Dash! Yonkuro as Musashi's machine.
General info[]
The Clod Buster is a 4x4 stepside pickup with rectangular, mesh-styled air intake with headlamps on the front and rectangular signal lamps on the rear. It had a large, silver-colored bumper on the front and a supercharger-like air intake on the bonnet. Behind the cab were the roll bars, with 5 headlamps on top of them. It was mainly red, with black and yellow stripes on it.
It was equipped with the standard wild-type wheels with monster truck tires.
About the 1/10 scale monster truck Clod Buster[]
Tamiya RC Clod Buster (Filmed in 1987)
Musashi's Moby-Dick.
Released on September 21, 1987, the Clod Buster is a 1/10 scaled R/C monster truck released by Tamiya.
The chassis, dubbed the Clod, featured a bathtub chassis frame and was supported by front and rear solid axle suspension linked with trailing arms and had two pairs of friction-type dampers on both the front and rear. Each solid axles had their own gearboxes and 540-size motors, and had four-wheel-steering mechanism through rod linkages.
The chassis would be later re-used for the Bullhead R/C truck and later its successor, the Super Clod Buster.
In media[]
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Dash! Yonkuro[]
Musashi's Moby-Dick.
In the manga, Musashi owns the white-colored Clod Buster named the Moby-Dick.
Musashi and his gang challenge the Dash Warriors as he thought that the Racing Mini 4WD cars has no place for the Mini 4WD racing because those cars had stripped off the ability to run on off-road tracks to become the circuit machines. This led to the race in which his gang race against Yonkuro's Dash-1 Emperor and Genta's Dash-W1 Wild Saurus in the sewer.
During the race, Musashi revealed that he had modified his car to include another sets of gears to the other side of the chassis, eliminates the need to the driveshafts between the left and right wheels, doing so to making the car running better on even the harsher terrains.
Technical info[]
| Variant | Body | Chassis | Wheels | Tires | Motor | Dimensions | Gear |
Standard |
Color: Red, Black Smoke |
Type: Wild |
Size: Extra Large |
Size: Extra Large |
Standard |
Length: 142 |
75:1 |
See also[]
External links[]
Tamiya Japan[]
- Clod Buster Jr. at Tamiya Japan