Kids buggy / recommendations ??

[Doomanic]

Originally Posted by RogerM

Look at Doom's lad Callum. Started with a Tamiya quick-drive at a very young age and now, only a couple of years on, is sometimes lapping quicker than the big man himself!

Not quite, you cheeky beggar, but it will happen.

I have no idea where the QD is, but his TC3 (bought for his 5th b'day) is still going strong, as is his B4.
I would definitely recommend going with a decent car, not an Argos cheapy. I limited the little fella's car with a stock motor and 4 cells initially and he's up to 6 cells and a spec motor now.

To all the dad's out there buying cars for their kids, just be careful, the older he gets and the more he races, the more I turn into "Racing Dad". You know the sort, getting arsey when he drives badly, shouting at the marshals, and all the other bad traits that I promised myself I wouldn't do....

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its time to give up dom!

[Metla]

I just bought my 3.5 year old a Tamiya Lunchbox(second hand, meant to be a minter,didn't cost much), going to give it to him for Christmas.

Though, I won't be surprised if he tries to ride it, rips the tires off and loses them, and in six months time I find it thrown over the fence.

Over the fence we have some hellish over growth and a 20 foot drop into a bitch of a stream.

[purpletimbo]

I would say run with a1/14 tamiya QD, plenty cheap boxed ones kicking about, I have a wealth of spares, gear bags servo savers etc, all available still, and with some 2500 nimh AAs the runtime is amazing, plus if you drop the gear selector on the gearbox, you can make them quite controllable speed wise, and limit the top end of the throttle.
For about £30 you could have a real nice looking one small enough for the graden but will cope with grass
You can even go MT
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tamiya-1-14-Ra...QQcmdZViewItem
I've got one of these and with a good 9.6v nimh its quick and stable.
Plus there are Kyosho FA 1/14 if you prefer not to go Tamiya, these Sammo bombers steer as well as anything I own

[xx4-nutter]

thats the best one ive seen so far.. good idea is that