Memories of 1st RC cars

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by joelwhite

Midnight Pumkin for me.Blasting up and down the street.Im pretty sure the front wheels never touched the ground. Wheelie machine!

tamiya rough rider 1979 ish using a futaba 4 channel radio didnt know much better i was 4

[MHeadling]

MantaMan76 Now gotta a Manta Ray & B4

Lets see some pics dude! I had 2 Manta Rays, I fancy another one and TRF it!

[dodgydiy]

my first was a tamiya holiday buggy, a week after they came out. second was a mardave apache, still have that holiday buggy, although it looks a bit sad now after its mistreatment by me when i was a lil bugger

[QuackingPlums]

Originally Posted by joelwhite

Midnight Pumkin for me.Blasting up and down the street.Im pretty sure the front wheels never touched the ground. Wheelie machine!

Me too! Although I got that quite a bit later - after my Cats and Optimas I think. It was definitely a fun truck - wheelies down the street and tumbles off the kerbs made it a bit more fun than fixing the old buggy after every race meeting...!

Speaking of which, does anybody else remember the old Amstrad CPC6128 lap-counting system where somebody had to shout the numbers out on the cars as they went past, whilst someone else tapped them in on the number pad?! TQ and FLD were somewhat less accurate in those days...

[Crazy L]

Awww. Mt 1st "real" RC car was a Kyosho Big Brute, does anyone actually remember that kit? I tell people and they look at me like I'm mad.

It wasn't a present of any sorts, I saved up for it with my pocket money and originally wanted the lunchbox but the lhs had sold out and had this left. IT was proper tough, the only thing that ever broke were the wheel adaptors.

It was even better when my sisters boyfriend bought me a Trinity Monster Horsepower motor for it.

The radio gear I bought was a Nikko Discovery 2 system. Quite a nice radio, aesthecally more pleasing than the acoms of the time

I was 13 and hooked

[MantaMan76]

Hello Mark,

Sorry no pics at the mo,but will post some soon-what TRF parts will fit TA01 chassis????

Stu

[qatmix]

you can fit the Topforce chassis kit to the manta ray. Or the RW racing chassis.

My first proper RC was a holiday buggy which I loved. The first one I raced was a boomerang. It ran so well I used to beat the cats and PB's at my club with it

[terry.sc]

My first proper r/c car for racing was from 1979, an AYK RX2000 , this was replaced by a Schumacher XL. My first buggy was a much modified Sand Rover, and my first racing buggy was a Frog which had all the hop ups of the day fitted to it.

Still got all except the Frog, which unfortunately is the one car that would be impossible to recreate today.

[Garry Spice]

i started when i was 14 and brought a muari hunter(am i the only man never to start with a tamiya!).i got the kit with my christmas paper round tips!
went racing at parkwood club,which then we was only racing on a cricket pitch...then dad started to.then mum and dad took over the club!
now,im 37 and still have the hunter in my loft,dad has a huge collection of old rc cars in his basement. i know many ex-parkwooders are still racing including my dad who now 67 and loves his mardave v12 and his got my young nephew
racing now too.
ps,tom...how many cars did we go thro at parkwood??

[kitesurfer73]

My cousin had a sand scorcher late 80's i think that got me into the hobby first rc car was a
Tamiya hornet ballraced and with a modified motor in, great at grip rolling lolthen a tamiya frog which i loved she turned into a shelf queen...
Got into racing then at the wirral Car Club with the hornet then a mardave meteor,everyone else had a cat i was jealous as anything so went out and bought tamiya porsche 1/12th dont ask..seen how much they go for on flea bay man should have keep hold gutted..
Had a gap of about 18yrs and have started all over again
with losi xxx and now a x6 and also a cat 3000 which am looking after for a friend...great car....

[poopers]

My first proper RC car was a Monster Beetle back in 1990. It was built by my local RC shop in Doncaster (closed down by ’92) and never worked right, found grub screws in the diff, that sort of thing. After messing around with it on the street, a neighbour who was into RC racing got me to take it along to a club meet at Rotherham Buggy Club at Rawmarsh to run in the noob class. As usual my beetle was playing up and a chap called Tony, from Tony’s Models of Sheffield, if I remember right, spent most of the meeting rebuilding my car.

That’s one of the things that got me started in rc racing, the fact there were so many people crowded around my little monster beetle belonging to someone they’d never seen before trying to help figure out why the steering wouldn’t centre, and missing their own races to rebuild a servo for me. After that my dad took everyone’s advice and bought me a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special, and we never looked back.

Oops, I’ve gone on a bit

[Nick Goodall]

I had various "Toy" R/C cars as a kid, but then at 10 years old in 1992 i got this bad boy:

[Garry Spice]

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i know it was over engineered but i loved it....pls mr.tamyia release it again!!!!

[QuackingPlums]

Originally Posted by Garry Spice

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i know it was over engineered but i loved it....pls mr.tamyia release it again!!!!

The Astute was a good little runner! If you think THAT was over-engineered, then what did you think of the Avante?! It was a thing of beauty, but I remember that even without batteries it was heavier than my Cat!

[Freakypen]

I can't remember what year it was 1989-90? but I remember nearly pleading with my Dad for a Tamiya Bigwig as every time I went to my local model shop I would watch the Tamiya videos saying it was the "ultimate" !!It cost a small fortune back then!!

I wouldn't listen to my bro when he said the rc10 was the best at the time...he was correct -but those disc wheels, technigold motor and shots of sand flying everywhere had corrupted my imagination!! Haha!!

Strange thing is-20 yrs on and I still can't afford a Bigwig!!

I ended up with a 2nd hand hornet as my 1st rc car-I put an MG Brown Dot motor in it and it was mad fast in a straight line-I'd rather not mention the cornering ability!!Was mega fun though

[Cosworth]

First proper rc car was a Tamiya Porsche 959 that my dad built for me when I was like 3-4... remember driving it round the garden like a nutter... naked in the rain...

then I remember selling it for £10 because it was a complete dog by the time I was 14....... Boy do I regret that now! It's no wonder i'm such an angry person now....

[Pablo668]

A Tamiya Hornet of course.

Damn thing was bullet proof. There may still be parts on my current Hornet from my original one......not sure which bits though.