I always had toy grade RC's as far back as i remember. My dad was a tinkerer and always tried to make them faster somehow, usually with the result of them going really fast for a couple of minutes and then going up in smoke.
Eventually he relented and bought me a Tamiya Falcon in '86. I ran the falcon so much it muyst've been completely knackered. A few friends had Grasshoppers and the more advanced Falcon made mincemeat of them.
In either 89 or 90 he must have realised the Falcon was on it's way out and floated the idea of getting me a new RC car for Christmas. He took me to the local model shop (long dead Bury Model Shop) and i saw a Bullhead "i want that one, the big one" obviously... anyway, the guy who ran the model shop and my dad talked me round into buying something called an "RC10 Team" as the shop originally ran what has now become Bury Metro Buggy Club (then Bury Model Shop Buggy Club), and i could go and race it.
So there i was, 89/90 racing my RC10 Team with an LRP Blue brushed motor in a small community centre on rolled out carpet with drainpipe dividers, no jumps, just flat all the way around. That thing felt so fast back then, i was hooked.
I've had breaks from the hobby over the years, but i always come back to it. I've never been very good at it though
