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Default What was your First RC vehicle??

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??
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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 .
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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. 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!
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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.
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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!! . I did however have a die cast Kitt with realistic lighting. One of my best Christmas presents ever!
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I treated myself to a Tamiya Super shot, with my first wages from the apprenticeship I started at Kodak in 1986!!!
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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

Wasn’t my first rc car though, that was a Tamiya Cheetah.
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Tamiya XR311
Army jeep based thing if I remember correctly.
Followed by a sand scorcher,
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1984 with one of these badboys



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