Knuckle Breaker

* Original
* BlackSP
* BlueSP

The **Knuckle Breaker** (Japanese: ナックルブレイカー, *Nakkuru Bureikā*) is a Aero Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on September 8, 1998.

It was featured in the manga and anime *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX* as Retsuya Ichimonji's machine, succeeding his Shadow Breaker Z-3 in the series.

## General info

The bodyshell is mostly the same as Max Breaker and Shadow Breaker, but with the flatter front bonnet design. It has a pair of vertical wings with faux-intakes. It sports both the stripe body decals and the flame-styled body decals. On the front-mid cowls, there's the faux-intake decals on them.

### Standard variant

The standard Knuckle Breaker has the white bodyshell, with red and yellow highlight and yellow, black and green stripes.

It was equipped with the fluorescent green, small diameter 3-spoke X narrow-type wheels paired with the black X narrow-type tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in brown gray and gray respectively. It doesn't comes with a motor.

A variant of the standard model, went on sales at the Japan Cup event before hitting the store shelves, has the chassis frame and A parts molded in black and smoke respectively.

### Black Special

The Black Special variant has the black smoke bodyshell, with the different body decal design with silver and red highlights.

It was equipped with the fluorescent green, small diameter 3-spoke X wide-type wheels paired with the black X wide-type tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black smoke and gray respectively. It doesn't comes with a motor.

### Blue Special

The Blue Special variant has the clear blue bodyshell, with the same decal design as the Black Special but with chrome silver, yellow and black highlights.

It was equipped with the cyan, small diameter 3-spoke X narrow-type wheels paired with the dark blue X narrow-type tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in dark blue.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*

In both media, the Knuckle Breaker, codenamed Z-1, is the second Z-number car (following the flawed Infinity Breaker Z-0) developed by Masamune Ichimonji. It was originally being stored inside the Borzoi School, until Masamune brought it to his youngest son Retsuya, who had lost his Shadow Breaker.

During the GJC-tuned-second-Borzoi-Open race in the anime, Retsuya installed the front driveshaft of the Shadow Breaker into the Knuckcle Breaker.

The rear wings of the Knuckle Breaker has the air-intakes on the front and the large vent on the rear, but they functions differently between media; In the manga, the car can initiate the 'Catapult Dash' special move where the rear vent discharges the air jets while the air-intakes are opened up, which make the car accelerate much quicker. In the anime, the Knuckle Breaker can generate the protective 'Knuckle Barrier' while half-opening the air-intakes, and when the intakes were opened in full (usually by having the car reaching certain speed or using the front side air-intakes of the car to open the intake eariler), it can initiate the 'Knuckle Storm' special move, which behave similar to Max Breaker's 'Max Storm'.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the Knuckle Breaker.Boxart of Black Special.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Knuckle Breaker at Tamiya Japan
* Knuckle Breaker Black Special at Tamiya Japan
* Knuckle Breaker Blue Special at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Knuckle Breaker Blue Special at Tamiya America