loving this nostalgia thread!
my mate got a thunder dragon for christmas in 1990. it was the first time either of us had seen a 'proper' RC car - up to that point, we'd spend the afternoons after school running a little non-proportional cheapo 2wd nikko buggy around his hallway with no tyres on, for entertaining drifts.
neither one of us could believe the speed on the thunder dragon, and this was with a standard silver can motor. I can't remember if he saved up his pocket money and bought the technigold motor... there was also talk of getting the hump-backed 8.4v battery pack
within a few months I'd managed to save enough pocket money to buy a midnight pumpkin and blackfoot as a pair from another mate. I'm not sure he really appreciated how much those cars were worth at the time, I think I managed to get them both for £25 inc radio gear
