Best car of its era

[pugs]

i dont remember his manta ray/top force hybrid,but i can remember seeing his egress with a different wishbone set up and what looked like hotshot front hub carriers and it looked mint! maybe the hybrid car was development for the top force evolution?

[Garry Spice]

im just going off one here so bear with me.i`ve been racing rc since i was 14(now 35 and half) and in that time i`ve had some interesting cars.first there was the marui hunter,chain driven optima,optima se,the original ultima,yokomo dogfighter,and the one after that(the good looking one),pb ace,tomy intruder,top models hybrid.oh,there may of been a topcat and cougar in there and a tamiya astute! i dont remember selling many of them,but where did they go????can any one beat my crap rc car history? ps does any one know or remember parkwood offroad club in maidstone? those was the days when we had parkwood.maidstone club at the airfield and medway.3 clubs all withing 10 miles!

[janus_77]

Important cars 2wd:
-> RC10 - 1st real competition 2wd
-> Losi XX - 1st moulded chassis competition car
-> Losi XXX - nearly unbeatable when released
-> RC10B4 - nearly unbeatable

Important cars 4wd:
-> YZ-834 B - 1st real competition 4wd
-> Optima Mid - Basic Layout was used for next decade
-> CAT2000 - nearly unbeatable when released
-> BJ4x4 - Bleu print for most modern 4wd
-> XX-4 - Longest surviving competition car ever

Other:
-> MIP 3gear - bleu print for all modern 2wd gearbox
-> Novak 1 - 1st real competition ESC
-> Checkpoint - 1st real competition motor
-> Brushless - just makes life so much easier
-> X6 / S2 - 1st Midmotor 2wd's
-> Tamiya - 1st R/C car for most of us

[B44&501xRacerEX]

After looking at my LRP Ai pro brushless box these guys are on the
cover: David Sprashett, Matt Francis, Ronald Volker, and Cliff Lett.

Wasnt Matt with Losi? Losi has a chassis named after him, or did anyhow.

And how many championships has the rc10 chassis won?
This is my favorite car of all time, I should know because I own one.

[ben]

nice car BMag

[SHY]

God please tell me that's not a drawer with underpants!...

[Body Paint]

Oh good god SHY... I think you're right

[niggs98]

think i might have a little bit of sick in my mouth oi b mag dont ya use daz

[SHY]

Maybe maybe it's just white socks...

Oh well, at least there's no mirror... and a naked photographer...

[Twister]

Hi guy's, i would say Yokomo 870c is the best car of it's time and still is competive. And is simple in design. i love it..

[Welshy40]

Well I think that in reality the best car of all time has got to be the very first, just think that without it we may not be at the same point in this hobby. The first started the ball rolling, and since then every new car that has been released has been a step in the right direction.

[trd179v]

Well in 1985 I collected my first Turbo Optima. It had the Gold Shocks! It was so much more advanced than my Plastic Tamiya Grasshopper . It was built like a tank also!My Tamiya grasshopper was all plastic! I won many raced in SoCal with other people that took this sport seriously amd raced their RC 10s. I was the outsider! Kyosho was serious about racing and they kept re-engineering the car into the Mid-then Lazer!
Parts were generally hard to find, but the Optima was well made.
Thank You

[stulec52]

Originally Posted by janus_77

-> X6 / S2 - 1st Midmotor 2wd's

What about the Fabiix car, and wasn't the Tekin RC-10 also mid motor?
I had good results with my Fab !

[Eccentric]

Originally Posted by Gayo

Here is a little game for you old-timers.

Pretend you have been sent on a time tunnel that takes you back to 1985...
Obviously, you forgot to take with you the winning numbers at the lottery, so what is left to do ? RC, of course!

What would be your car choice over the years, now that you know what works and what’s not ?
Another way to say it would be : what was the best car of its era? 2WD and 4WD.

My choice :

4WD
1985..........Yokomo Bulldog
1986..........RPS Yokomo SE
1987..........Cat XLS
1988..........Mid LWSP
1989..........Lazer ZX
1990..........
1991..........Works 91
1992..........
1993..........Works 93
1994..........Predator
1995..........Cat 2000EC
1996..........
1997..........XX-4
...
2004..........BJ4 or X-5


2WD
1985..........RC10
...
1988..........JRX-2
...
1990..........RC10 Team Car
...
1992..........TRX-1 or Cougar 2
1993..........
1994..........Losi XX
...
1999..........Losi XXX
...
2003..........RC10B4


Feel free to comment and add your own list!

I agree with your list...except for the changes above in red!

[traffman]

I remember racing a swb turbo mid optima , i loved that car it just looked right and went round corners nicely and was pretty responsive.
I allways wanted to buy loads of carbon fibre for it , however i couldnt afford it back then.
My Tomy intruder was an interesting car , it was actually pretty competitive , in the hands of Jimmy Hamilton it did really well up here in Scotland.
The lazer mk1 was a nice car , felt heavy and the bodyshell wasnt the most attractive. I got a very early one from Elite models , the manual was japanese but the clarity of the pictures were well printed and i had no trouble working out what went where.

[chalky]

anyone remember the kyosho scorpion it must of being around 1980 the first 2wd competition electric race car

and also the bolink digger all grp construction

[CHEVY]

i remember the scorpion tomahawk gallop progress

had gallop what a pile of c--p no good in straight line
but would bite its own gear box on corners ie fourwheel steering

[chickentikka25]

Originally Posted by stefke

In the 90'ies :

If you look at the competition when it came out : the Losi XX was by far the best car of it's era, certainly compaired to the alu thub RC10. AE only cought up when the RC10B2 got dialed in, and even then the XX was the easier car for 80% of the drivers.

4wd : The CAT2000 (original or EC) was a phenominal car for it's era. It could even hold its ground against the later and more modern XX4.

Wha...??? What about the Traxxas TRX I think it was called; mid-nineties it combined the best bits of the Cougar 2 Team and the RC10 Team....that said, I used to race a C2T in the wet/mud and the RC10 in the dry/dust, it was the only way I could beat the Traxxas drivers....

And not a single mention of the PB Maxima or PB Ace!!!

[93works]

870c, jrx2. + the first moulded chassis was the junior 2 or was it the pro se not the xx