Memories of 1st RC cars
 

As im knocking on 30 and i don't have kids i think im turning in to a miserable old git as Christmas seems to be less and less entertaining.
This year however i feel like ive been shot back to my childhood as i decided this year to get my 6 year old nephew his 1st RC car.
I managed to get him a little 1:18 Nikko Subaru WRC and naturally i had to give it a go to try it before wrapping it up yesterday. Within seconds i was whizzed back to 1987 when my dad bought me my 1st car, a Nikko Chipmunk!! which still gathers dust in its box in my wardrobe. I remember being soooooo exited when i first opened the little box lid and i first laid my hands on the car that seemed so big back then and now it looks like it would fit in Tracy's handbag, box included!
This seems to have started a bit of a chain reaction as this morning i have found myself upstairs digging out my old Tamiya Williams i got for Chrismas in 1993 and as i speak my little Nikko chipmunk is whizzing round the landing !wicked! im 8 years old all over again! now it feels like Christmas!

Just thought id ask if any of you remember your 1st memories of your RC world and what car you had?

the same one santa bought me today, tamiya rough rider

Lucky man!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:

mmm my fist car was a tamiya frog and then a kyosho optima mmm great car in its day if only kyosho would biuld it again ,,, treated myself to my b max for this year though :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Tamiya TA02, with Acoms radio, Speed Master Silver Star ESC and an LRP 21x2 GT1 motor. Complete with a Protoform Volvo S40 body, Metallic green with sky blue painted windows, and matchstick light buckets.

Secondhand, but I loved it. :)

You not running the pred this year mate?

tamiya cheetah
 

wish i still had it if anyone has one for sale let me know

My first proper RC racing car was a Maruri Shogun (1/10th electric off road) painted in black like the box artwork, looked the business and went well too. The earliest and fondest memory of a RC to car is my Knight Rider, my mate had the hopped up 2000 model but the standard looking car was the best :)

My first car in 1986:bored: was a tamiya hornet, then a gold tub rc10 followed later by my most loved car...an optima. And as a trip down memory lane I have just got another optima and Im slowly doing it up:thumbsup:On the lookout for some original tyres now,just got to sell an organ to aford them:woot:

nikko dandy dash then an original avante

Tamiya grasshopper 2 super 'g' then tamiya king cab, class truck!!!

My first RC car was a Nikko Porsche 956.

First 1/10th buggy was a Tamiya Thunder Dragon.

First "race" buggy was a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special ... still very fond memories of that car, wish I still had it! There started the Kyosho afair ;)

Tamiya Hotshot, think it was Christmas 1989... It always went quicker in reverse than forward... weird..

Tamiya Falcon, then a Kyosho Progress. Progress was meant to be my Dads but it was just so much better than the Falcon so I 'commandeered' it. My Dad then got an Optima Mid for himself. I nicked that too, figuring it was better than the Progress, but my Dads hopes of getting the Progress back were dashed when my younger brother decided he wanted to join in!

In the end my Dad got me an RC10 (original gold tub) and my brother a Topcat in order to finally get us to leave his Kyosho's alone.........

I got one of the first Tamiya Hornet cars in 1984. Man I had so many good memories of that buggy. When I started racing I got myself a Tamiya Manta Ray 4WD which was in a different league! I bought a Hornet again last year, for my son, I was surprised how basic it was. It's up the loft now resting for the next 20 years.

Mk1 Mardave mini... £30 c/w charger 'n battery... I sold it on the bay last year for £40!! result!! my first buggy was a Kyosho raider, box art sadly... (I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it tho'...) But my first nitro was the Kyosho Advance(?) c/w 'C' cell strapped to the front bumper and an Enya.09 engine... I've still got it in the garage.. 'n it's a runner..!

I had a Tamiya Boomerang for Christmas 1986, quickly found out that they were no good for club racing and sold it for a Kyosho Optima Mid in '87 -that's the car I have the best memories of! :thumbsup:

1987 I got a Radio Shack Golden Arrow the first RC I ever got
One is on Ebay right now
http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-Golden-Arr...L-BUGGY_W0QQit

1988 I got one of these Tamiya Blackfoot Trucks(competely stunk the dogbones would only last a couple batteries)
Then in 1989 I got a another buggy I had a used Raider ARR(tranny was weak only could handle a silvercan motor)


1990 Radio Shack Released another RC called the Black Phantom it was a 4wd dual motor buggy, I think twin 360's and it ran on a standard 7.2v stick pack. I had one of those, it was fast for what it was, no were near hobby quality though.

I dont really miss any of them, what I have now is lightyears better.

I had a Tamiya Sand Rover with an Accoms radio "combo deal" when I was 9. It was rubbish - terrible handling, rear wheels bounced along when cornering and that horrible blade speed controller that burnt out unless I drove it at full speed...

1st car was a Yokomo Works 91

Bought March 93 to get into hobby. SilverStar esc (Blue Shrink Wrap Brick). Yuasa Batteries. Powerpole connectors. Demon 19t Motor. Servo??? Stick Radio on 27mhz. All bought from Stockton Modeller.

The spending hasn't stopped since :woot: