i had a tamiya sand rover it was in mint condition and with the box and i wrecked it hahaha wish id just kept it now!!

Tamiya Manta Ray for my 10th Birthday.

Acoms radio gear, mechanical speedo and 1200mah nicds :D

my first rc was one of those cheap buggies that flipped over when i was like 12, truck on one side, car on other, charge it for like 12 hours and get 10 mins drive time haha, but was the bees knees at that age lol... but my first proper one is a mardave v12, started just over year ago, im such a newbie :lol:

Tamiya Striker. kinda like a F1 car with knobblies :confused:

after that a Hotshot & a long lay off until 8th buggies around 10 years ago

we all have to start some where :lol:

Technically my first was a Lectricar BMW, although it lasted two weeks before being replaced by an AYK RX2000.

My first proper car was a Mardave meteor. Upgraded with ball races then long wheel base. Mechanical spedo, Later got a Schumacher Topcat 2wd. Those were the days.

optima mid back in 1987,seems like yesterday.

Remember it well! In about '86 I was given a Nikko Black Fox for christmas.
It was my pride and joy.
Always wanted a Grasshopper but I lost interest for 20+ years and have just returned to the hobby.

1st rc car
 

Mine was a Tamiya Wildone, What a beaut! :thumbsup:

Almost same here - got Manta Ray QD and I was about 4-5 years old :D

I didn't get my first propper rc car till i was 34.
i got a Duratrax evader rtr buggy.tough as old boots.
then my rc racing obsession started when it took it racing to fastracks racing.
Im forty now and run tourer and buggy n still loving it.

Marui Hunter :woot:

I have an unbuilt kit up in the loft that I'm saving for a rainy day :wub

Tamiya Fire Dragon, then a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special (followed by a Lazer ZX ... a theme built from then .. lol)

Tamiya Bigwig, with technigold motor and 8.4v battery :woot:

Tamiya Grasshopper. I would like another one too.

Had a Frog.

.... and then a Boomerang, an Optima Mid Turbo, a Procat, an RC10 (with gunmetal grey chassis).

Tamiya Manta Ray.
Eventually got hopped up to Team spec thanks to Jamie Booth. :)

Wish I'd never got rid. :(

You forgot your yok Andy!!

As for my list
Mardave meteor
Kyosho rocky
Cat xls
Converted to procat
Optima mid cs
Lazer zx
Yok dogfighter masami works
Laser zxr
Rc10 andys graphite special

Ahhh. Lovely old school goodness

This thread has had me checking google and youtube to find the cars I used to run. Brings back some good memories.

1. Tamiya King Cab (bought it second hand with loads of carbon upgrade bits, loved this truck)
2. Kyosho Lazer Alpha
3. Kyosho Sandmaster ST-2

I had a Tamiya MudBlaster in around 1987/8 ish, put Monster beetle shell and gold wheels on, plus bought the blackfoot shell too. Raced it in 1989 a couple of times, then in 1990 bought a Lazer ZX and started racing properly, struggled with the ZX (It was rough, bought used), so got a Procat soon after.

Crikey, I did! ... must be because I didn't race it much before "retiring" !

:thumbsup:

Tamiya subaru brat, Kyosho tomahawk, Associated RC10 :thumbsup:

I remembered some more I had, I sold my Clod buster and bought a Kyosho Double Dare but it was dreadful and put me off everything being young and having saved ALL my money to get it so I left it for a while.

Since then I've had an eight Buggy, I think it was called a Swift ? Distributed by Schumacher and at the same time a Yokomo MR4TC Pro Hara Worlds Edition, and a Tamiya Mini.

Just getting back into it all now :D

After my tamiya madcap i got a blackfoot. Used to race it as well with my sanwa dash sabre radio. The yellow tamiya oil shocks and a trinity green machine motor. Consistently finished top of B mains trucks.
I bust the body mounts in a crash the day before a race so had the body lashed on with masking tape and picked up the name of "band aid"
Had to sell that to get my rc10T

My first RC was a Tamiya Striker. The second was an Ass B4. Many years there between without an RC car.

The first one I remember having was a Tamiya Cheata, but didn't start racing till the Hotshot came along a few years later.

traxxas slash 4x4

tamiya boomerang !!! then cat xls when i knew a little more..

tony

A Grasshopper with a 360 motor. I persuaded my mum that my dad couldn't live without one and she bought it for him as an Xmas present! I dont think he ever got near it.

Tamiya fox which i still have:thumbsup:

Firts proper car was Kyosho Pegasus with SAFT nicads, followed by a Turbo Scorpion, then a chain drive Optima with 'yellow sticks' cells then belt drive Optima with Futaba ESC woooo!

My first car was a bit of an unknown. It had a Corvette Stingray body shell on it (It was 30 years ago:o)

Then i got a Tamiya Falcon

Tamiya Thundershot (kit)

I had a tyco jet hopper buggy in the 80's. It had a turbo mode on the throttle, up and to the right. Then tamiya nissan king cab. They were the days, when one set of tyres would last the cars life.

My first car was a Grasshopper clone, the Academy Galaxy Buggy. (the one pictured here isn't mine, but I am on the hunt for another one!)
My second car was a Kyosho Shadow. My latest vintage purchase, I actually just bought one the other day. (very stoked about it, too!) Just took a bunch of pics of it this morning:
Kyosho Shadow Score <- clicky
Unfortunately, finding another Galaxy Buggy may prove to be much more difficult!

my fisrt car was tamyia blackfoot in 1993 i think:thumbsup: 1st 4wd booscat ,2wd losi xx,1st 4wd on road tamyia tao3f pro,2wd onroad ff02 pug 306 maxi:wub

My first car was a Tandy Porsche 928 forward and reverse thingy,then after much persuasion I got a 2nd hand tamiya hornet which I raced at school Parma 1400scr's blue with red ends!!!! ( if you had these you were a racing god!),then after the usual bunch of bashers I left school and started racing at a proper club-tamiya madcap hopped up to the hilt then a cougar 2 racer then works edition also dabbled with a mantaray then a procat then after 3 years I left to follow beer and skirt.... Now after a return to the hobby I race and run allsorts and after having over 300+cars since I ever started I wished I kept all of them even the rare ones fab2000 cougar 2000,top models hybrid,all the rc10's I've had and last but not least my pb maxima.....only got rid of it due to modern batteries won't fit through it.....

I had a few as a kid but got fedup waiting for the battery to charge for it to only run for 3 minutes :(

I had a Tamiya Fox and then moved to a Mardave Marauder. Things got no better with that as I used to use a rubber wheel fixed on my dads electric drill held in Black & Decker Workmate. That was better as I used to fill the tank up with the engine running. That was until the throttle jammed one day and it went flat out through my mums greenhouse!

Built a few after that such as the Mardave IC stockcar and an original Mardave Mini but never raced for a further 26 years!

Now 26 years later I have a Mardave V12 and loving it!

my 1st was a tamiya m01 which was a love hate relationship i loved driving it and was pretty competitive but hated it as it cost a fortune for a sheet of plastic parts which you only got 1 of the part you needed to fix it,then it was the same part that kept on braking,
got a tamiya ta03 standard plastic thing then n was my dream car lol was in the a finals every week to with it wish i never swopped it for that preditor dtm now pile of dog muck that was!

Mardave Apache 1984.
I used the cycle six miles with the car, batteries, charger and tools in a back pack and pray that someone would let me use their car battery to charge off of.