What was your First RC vehicle??

[A_McT]

Been browsing Ebay and stumbled across a listing which had me feeling all nostalgic. It was for my first ever RC vehicle, a 1985 Tandy Dash truck.

Where did everybody else's RC journeys start??

[Roscopeco]

I had a few cheaper smaller ones before this but I too had a Truck like that from Tandy , wasn’t as early as 1985 though probably more like 1991/1992 . Remember so looking forward to going to get it only to be disappointed at how slow it was when I got it home lol .

[A_McT]

To be fair I don't think I got mine in '85 either, late 80s I think.

A few years later and my Grandad spoilt me with a Cougar 2 Team from Otley Modelsport as it was back then. All ready built at the shop too, with a Futaba Attack SR transmitter. :thumbsup: To say it was an upgrade was an understatement!! I broke too many front ends on that and was always losing circlips from the front hinge pins!

[Crazy L]

My 1st RC car was a Knight Rider, made by a company called Matsushiro, or something like that, they also made a Miami vice Ferrari and Facemans Corvette.

[Bungleaio]

1984 with one of these badboys

https://i.ibb.co/S6M9Sx0/s-l640.jpg (https://ibb.co/nwY5p0f)

It did miles and I was forever asking for new batteries.

I didn't get serious with RC until 1994 when I got a Mardave Cobra!

[timmy]

My first rc was a toy grade Corgi Capri Rally (still looking for one..), first proper rc was a Tamiya Pajero(with wheelie bar), first race car was an Optima

[Buggyman]

Tamiya Fast attack vehicle. Crashed is so many times the entire front end was held together with superglue. Happy days.

[teamorsum96]

It was a mardave mini stock in 1987 :o

[mark christopher]

Tamiya rough rider, Christmas after tamiya rere my wife surprised me with one, still need to build it, more than likely be my retirement build

[A_McT]

My 1st RC car was a Knight Rider, made by a company called Matsushiro, or something like that, they also made a Miami vice Ferrari and Facemans Corvette.

As an 80s child.... Sooo jealous!! :o. I did however have a die cast Kitt with realistic lighting. One of my best Christmas presents ever! :D

[toyracer69]

I treated myself to a Tamiya Super shot, with my first wages from the apprenticeship I started at Kodak in 1986!!! :woot:

[JohnM]

My 1st RC car was a Knight Rider, made by a company called Matsushiro, or something like that

I had one of those as well:lol:

Wasn’t my first rc car though, that was a Tamiya Cheetah.

[masons01]

Tamiya XR311
Army jeep based thing if I remember correctly.
Followed by a sand scorcher,

[fidspeed]

second hand tomy intruder my first r/c purchase I started late almost 30 when I got hooked a fellow mechanic in garage I worked in was blasting a cat xls round yard at back of garage and I was hooked

years before as a snotty kid I'd look in local model shop at early tamiya like datsun 240z and lambo countach but never got one
one xmas I got a cox control line nitro Ryan pt19 aeroplane did half a circuit before crashing g :lol::lol:

Dave

[martgifford]

Tamiya Manta Ray with a Futaba Attack II in that lovely beige.....

[A_McT]

My Attack SR was the same lovely beige. I think they did a grey version too. The beige version really was "of it's time" though.

[Aire valley]

Bought a second hand Rough Rider for my 9 year old son and ,because he wouldn't let me use it, an AYK Supertrail for myself..! That was a long time ago..

[xfactor]

I had a paper round. Just to set this out. £3.00 a week YES !!! £3.00 a week.. That was early mornings, afternoons Monday to Saturday, with PINKS at 5.45pm Saturday and a Sunday morning killer with all the magazines.....

I saved for a Tamiya Grasshopper. Anyway got the £69.00 I think it was then, then off to Puntiloio in Hinckley ( not sure of spelling) Modelshop. Walked in and WHAM !!!! BAMB !!!! SLAM !!!! GEEEEEZZZZZUZSSS There it was the NEW RELEASE with a massive fluorescent orange STAR on it. PRICE £89.00 :( oh no Ive only got enough for the grasshopper. Mummy came to my rescue and gave me the rest.

IT WAS THE FROG !!!!!, Then later on when I started racing in 1989 I had a TERRA SCORCHER which then became the PRO-CAT and a TOP-CAT.....

Good memories......:D

[Mattyb6]

I had many cheap cars growing up, but my first proper rc car was a tamiya ford escort cosworth, which I wish I had kept nice now. I raced it around the southport track back in the late 90's which then started me with competition cars with a b3.

[lofty2332]

I had a load of cheap RC cars as a kid mostly Tyco or Nikko's from Argos.
First proper Hobby grade was a Tamiya Grasshopper 2 Super G, followed by a Mardave Meteor.