What was your First RC vehicle??
 

Been browsing Ebay and stumbled across a listing which had me feeling all nostalgic. It was for my first ever RC vehicle, a 1985 Tandy Dash truck.

Where did everybody else's RC journeys start??

I had a few cheaper smaller ones before this but I too had a Truck like that from Tandy , wasn’t as early as 1985 though probably more like 1991/1992 . Remember so looking forward to going to get it only to be disappointed at how slow it was when I got it home lol .

To be fair I don't think I got mine in '85 either, late 80s I think.

A few years later and my Grandad spoilt me with a Cougar 2 Team from Otley Modelsport as it was back then. All ready built at the shop too, with a Futaba Attack SR transmitter. :thumbsup: To say it was an upgrade was an understatement!! I broke too many front ends on that and was always losing circlips from the front hinge pins!

My 1st RC car was a Knight Rider, made by a company called Matsushiro, or something like that, they also made a Miami vice Ferrari and Facemans Corvette.

1984 with one of these badboys

https://i.ibb.co/S6M9Sx0/s-l640.jpg

It did miles and I was forever asking for new batteries.

I didn't get serious with RC until 1994 when I got a Mardave Cobra!

My first rc was a toy grade Corgi Capri Rally (still looking for one..), first proper rc was a Tamiya Pajero(with wheelie bar), first race car was an Optima

Tamiya Fast attack vehicle. Crashed is so many times the entire front end was held together with superglue. Happy days.

It was a mardave mini stock in 1987 :o

Tamiya rough rider, Christmas after tamiya rere my wife surprised me with one, still need to build it, more than likely be my retirement build

As an 80s child.... Sooo jealous!! :o. I did however have a die cast Kitt with realistic lighting. One of my best Christmas presents ever! :D

I treated myself to a Tamiya Super shot, with my first wages from the apprenticeship I started at Kodak in 1986!!! :woot:

I had one of those as well:lol:

Wasn’t my first rc car though, that was a Tamiya Cheetah.

Tamiya XR311
Army jeep based thing if I remember correctly.
Followed by a sand scorcher,

second hand tomy intruder my first r/c purchase I started late almost 30 when I got hooked a fellow mechanic in garage I worked in was blasting a cat xls round yard at back of garage and I was hooked

years before as a snotty kid I'd look in local model shop at early tamiya like datsun 240z and lambo countach but never got one
one xmas I got a cox control line nitro Ryan pt19 aeroplane did half a circuit before crashing g :lol::lol:

Dave

Tamiya Manta Ray with a Futaba Attack II in that lovely beige.....

My Attack SR was the same lovely beige. I think they did a grey version too. The beige version really was "of it's time" though.

Bought a second hand Rough Rider for my 9 year old son and ,because he wouldn't let me use it, an AYK Supertrail for myself..! That was a long time ago..

I had a paper round. Just to set this out. £3.00 a week YES !!! £3.00 a week.. That was early mornings, afternoons Monday to Saturday, with PINKS at 5.45pm Saturday and a Sunday morning killer with all the magazines.....

I saved for a Tamiya Grasshopper. Anyway got the £69.00 I think it was then, then off to Puntiloio in Hinckley ( not sure of spelling) Modelshop. Walked in and WHAM !!!! BAMB !!!! SLAM !!!! GEEEEEZZZZZUZSSS There it was the NEW RELEASE with a massive fluorescent orange STAR on it. PRICE £89.00 :( oh no Ive only got enough for the grasshopper. Mummy came to my rescue and gave me the rest.

IT WAS THE FROG !!!!!, Then later on when I started racing in 1989 I had a TERRA SCORCHER which then became the PRO-CAT and a TOP-CAT.....

Good memories......:D

I had many cheap cars growing up, but my first proper rc car was a tamiya ford escort cosworth, which I wish I had kept nice now. I raced it around the southport track back in the late 90's which then started me with competition cars with a b3.

I had a load of cheap RC cars as a kid mostly Tyco or Nikko's from Argos.
First proper Hobby grade was a Tamiya Grasshopper 2 Super G, followed by a Mardave Meteor.