your first RC car?.........

[teamorsum96]

so what was you first RC car?..................

mine was the mardave mini stock:thumbsup:,metallic green with yellow bumpers... oooo yea i was cool :lol:

i no there is a few people out there that was racing RC cars that fred flinstone would of drove likes of you pete mason :lol::D

[bigchris]

Thundershot QD ... then thundershot kit buggy , clockwork charger and 1200SC cells

[adam_u]

Tamiya Grasshopper with 540 motor upgrade :thumbsup:

[teamorsum96]

Thundershot QD ... then thundershot kit buggy , clockwork charger and 1200SC cells

ooo i remember them battery's lol fort they where dogs balls at the time lol:lol:

[Bungleaio]

My 1st came from tandy, it went forwards and turned in reverse.

The 1st kit built car I had was a Mardave cobra sport, I thought it was the biz!

[teamorsum96]

My 1st came from tandy, it went forwards and turned in reverse.

The 1st kit built car I had was a Mardave cobra sport, I thought it was the biz!

me and brother got 1 them year after racing mini stocks and i did like to smack the ramps lol :lol: fun little car

[neiloliver]

Tamiya Falcon with Accoms MK2 Tx

[AfroP]

Tamiya madcap

never worked properly always sounded like it was grinding gears or something. even paid an "expert" to repair it and he ended up giving me my cash back as he couldn't figure out what was wrong

[eyeayen]

I think the first RC car I had was something from Tandy or woolworths or somewhere, it was called a winch, little red jeep thing with a winch on the front.

My first proper car was a Tamiya Fox, then I also had at the same time a Mardave Mini Stock which is were I got my first taste for racing.

Then I had a Clodbuster, then they sort of got forgotten as Motorbikes and girls sort of got in the way :lol:

[Ant]

Mine was a Mardave Apache - which I still have.
Mid motor, no diff or dampers. Indestructible.
Gearbox had 2gears which cost 35p each.

[Adam F]

then they sort of got forgotten as Motorbikes and girls sort of got in the way :lol:

Yeh, funny how that happens... its a good job that RC cars are about as addictive as crack or I wouldn't have come back to it.

My first proper RC car was a Tamiya hotshot... had loads of naff things from Tandy beforehand...

[teamorsum96]

Then I had a Clodbuster, then they sort of got forgotten as Motorbikes and girls sort of got in the way :lol:[/QUOTE]

you cant say that lol i took my girlfriend to a meeting and now shes racing mardaves at are club and doing very well :thumbsup: thumbs up to her :D

[Steven Forster]

Tamiya TL-01 with loads of hop ups which i still have :woot:

[mx0range]

tamiya ta01 with the escort rs cosworth shell. had a few ta01s over the years

[Tezcat]

Tamiya


Ford F150 Ranger XLT

Loved the waterproof compartment.

[i4n]

Tamiya Boomerang was my first, quickly followed by an original Astute (wish I still had that!)

[Mike Haswell]

An Associated 12E.

[watfordtrackwarrior]

my first proper r/c car was a tamiya subaru brat

first race car was a tamiya striker:lol:

[teamorsum96]

An Associated 12E.

posh lol

[AndyF]

Tamiya Hornet and now I could buy one again! I feel 11 all over again!

[Dudders]

White Tamiya Celica!

[xray-dom]

schumacher stt pro :woot:
alfa 156 shell............. and lots of tape :p

[kinggareth]

I used to use my dad's Tamiya Hornet for knocking about in the garden when i was really small.
But my first 'proper' car was a Cougar 2000 with touring car bodyshell mounts and an Escort Cossie body. Used to race it at Chessington before they built that 5-a-side football place on it.

[Dudders]

Ah yes the old bodyshell extension kit!. I had a Fiesta XR2i shell on my old Boomerang!

[coleman758]

Tamiya Hornet and now I could buy one again! I feel 11 all over again!

i had a Tamiya Blitzer (Stadium) then an FF-01 (Both are worth a fortune now!!)

I still have my old hornet !

[wes j.]

Tamiya Frog :thumbsup:.

[dodgydiy]

first rc car was made out of lego, meccano and curtain rod, first proper one was a tamiya holiday buggy though

[dbizzle5]

Manta Ray:thumbsup: Awsome!

[shark]

Sand scorcher ..... bang tidy :thumbsup:

[sime46]

HOTSHOT! Smash your back doors in!!!xxx

[bigred5765]

Holiday buggy, then i got the hump back 5 cell pack for it lol it made it fly NOT lol wish i still had it,

[shark]

HOTSHOT! Smash your back doors in!!!xxxShaaaaating lmao

[Gazza]

Mardave 1/8th Circuit car 1978 with a Veco 19 and Ford Capri shell :thumbsup:

[big air]

First one i remember was a clicky in reverse mustang.:woot: Then i moved on to lorry's.

First 2 channel was a Niko F1 car from Tandy's and i did warm the tyres up in the oven:thumbsup:

Had many a good sesh with my 15 minute Ricko charger:lol: Double charge for extra punch:woot: Trinity turbo drops were awesome :p

[reg]

i cant remember what mine was but,it was 2wd buggy,it had a red swich at the back for slow and fast speed:thumbsup: i remember it had a driver in the middle with mesh side window and big frogeye head lights,it had a spare front wheel mounted on the roof or were the back window was,it was ace,but i always wanted a NINJA :wub

[teamorsum96]

Tamiya Hornet and now I could buy one again! I feel 11 all over again!

i am taking it this time you would take more care with it this time round lol

[The Chef]

I had a Tamiya Rough Rider in about 1981, I still have it now:woot: Then I got a Saubrau Brat, followed by A TAMIYA Terra Scorcher, then on to The Cat from Cat2000 on:thumbsup: Still have my boss cat works too:p

[mdb_75]

Tamiya Boomerang! :woot:

[teamorsum96]

Tamiya Boomerang! :woot:

old school :thumbsup:

does any one no if they do retro meetings?

[russmini]

Tamiya Terra Scorcher.

:thumbsup:

[gixxer]

i had a tamiya sand rover it was in mint condition and with the box and i wrecked it hahaha wish id just kept it now!!

[Big G]

Tamiya Manta Ray for my 10th Birthday.

Acoms radio gear, mechanical speedo and 1200mah nicds :D

[beckybean66]

my first rc was one of those cheap buggies that flipped over when i was like 12, truck on one side, car on other, charge it for like 12 hours and get 10 mins drive time haha, but was the bees knees at that age lol... but my first proper one is a mardave v12, started just over year ago, im such a newbie :lol:

[showtime]

Tamiya Striker. kinda like a F1 car with knobblies :confused:

after that a Hotshot & a long lay off until 8th buggies around 10 years ago

[teamorsum96]

my first rc was one of those cheap buggies that flipped over when i was like 12, truck on one side, car on other, charge it for like 12 hours and get 10 mins drive time haha, but was the bees knees at that age lol... but my first proper one is a mardave v12, started just over year ago, im such a newbie :lol:

we all have to start some where :lol:

[terry.sc]

Technically my first was a Lectricar BMW, although it lasted two weeks before being replaced by an AYK RX2000.

[Rick-J]

My first proper car was a Mardave meteor. Upgraded with ball races then long wheel base. Mechanical spedo, Later got a Schumacher Topcat 2wd. Those were the days.

[brian s]

optima mid back in 1987,seems like yesterday.

[damselfly]

Remember it well! In about '86 I was given a Nikko Black Fox for christmas.
It was my pride and joy.
Always wanted a Grasshopper but I lost interest for 20+ years and have just returned to the hobby.

[Pedros20]

Mine was a Tamiya Wildone, What a beaut! :thumbsup:

[lochness42]

Tamiya Manta Ray for my 10th Birthday.

Acoms radio gear, mechanical speedo and 1200mah nicds :D

Almost same here - got Manta Ray QD and I was about 4-5 years old :D

[xray011]

I didn't get my first propper rc car till i was 34.
i got a Duratrax evader rtr buggy.tough as old boots.
then my rc racing obsession started when it took it racing to fastracks racing.
Im forty now and run tourer and buggy n still loving it.

[Hairy Spider]

Marui Hunter :woot:

I have an unbuilt kit up in the loft that I'm saving for a rainy day :wub

[RogerM]

Tamiya Fire Dragon, then a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special (followed by a Lazer ZX ... a theme built from then .. lol)

[/tobys]

Tamiya Bigwig, with technigold motor and 8.4v battery :woot:

[chris brown]

Tamiya Grasshopper. I would like another one too.

[AndyG]

Had a Frog.

.... and then a Boomerang, an Optima Mid Turbo, a Procat, an RC10 (with gunmetal grey chassis).

[telboy]

Tamiya Manta Ray.
Eventually got hopped up to Team spec thanks to Jamie Booth. :)

Wish I'd never got rid. :(

[steveproracing]

You forgot your yok Andy!!

As for my list
Mardave meteor
Kyosho rocky
Cat xls
Converted to procat
Optima mid cs
Lazer zx
Yok dogfighter masami works
Laser zxr
Rc10 andys graphite special

Ahhh. Lovely old school goodness

[Armie]

This thread has had me checking google and youtube to find the cars I used to run. Brings back some good memories.

1. Tamiya King Cab (bought it second hand with loads of carbon upgrade bits, loved this truck)
2. Kyosho Lazer Alpha
3. Kyosho Sandmaster ST-2

[Chrislong]

I had a Tamiya MudBlaster in around 1987/8 ish, put Monster beetle shell and gold wheels on, plus bought the blackfoot shell too. Raced it in 1989 a couple of times, then in 1990 bought a Lazer ZX and started racing properly, struggled with the ZX (It was rough, bought used), so got a Procat soon after.

[AndyG]

You forgot your yok Andy!!

Crikey, I did! ... must be because I didn't race it much before "retiring" !

:thumbsup:

[stegger]

Tamiya subaru brat, Kyosho tomahawk, Associated RC10 :thumbsup:

[eyeayen]

I remembered some more I had, I sold my Clod buster and bought a Kyosho Double Dare but it was dreadful and put me off everything being young and having saved ALL my money to get it so I left it for a while.

Since then I've had an eight Buggy, I think it was called a Swift ? Distributed by Schumacher and at the same time a Yokomo MR4TC Pro Hara Worlds Edition, and a Tamiya Mini.

Just getting back into it all now :D

[AfroP]

After my tamiya madcap i got a blackfoot. Used to race it as well with my sanwa dash sabre radio. The yellow tamiya oil shocks and a trinity green machine motor. Consistently finished top of B mains trucks.
I bust the body mounts in a crash the day before a race so had the body lashed on with masking tape and picked up the name of "band aid"
Had to sell that to get my rc10T

[Thomas B]

My first RC was a Tamiya Striker. The second was an Ass B4. Many years there between without an RC car.

[JohnM]

The first one I remember having was a Tamiya Cheata, but didn't start racing till the Hotshot came along a few years later.

[_den_cedric_]

traxxas slash 4x4

[tonymong]

tamiya boomerang !!! then cat xls when i knew a little more..

tony

[Skelbo]

A Grasshopper with a 360 motor. I persuaded my mum that my dad couldn't live without one and she bought it for him as an Xmas present! I dont think he ever got near it.

[Robocop]

Tamiya fox which i still have:thumbsup:

[Ted Maul]

Firts proper car was Kyosho Pegasus with SAFT nicads, followed by a Turbo Scorpion, then a chain drive Optima with 'yellow sticks' cells then belt drive Optima with Futaba ESC woooo!

[dobber]

My first car was a bit of an unknown. It had a Corvette Stingray body shell on it (It was 30 years ago:o)

Then i got a Tamiya Falcon

Tamiya Thundershot (kit)

[DomSmith]

I had a tyco jet hopper buggy in the 80's. It had a turbo mode on the throttle, up and to the right. Then tamiya nissan king cab. They were the days, when one set of tyres would last the cars life.

[tsan]

My first car was a Grasshopper clone, the Academy Galaxy Buggy. (the one pictured here isn't mine, but I am on the hunt for another one!)
My second car was a Kyosho Shadow. My latest vintage purchase, I actually just bought one the other day. (very stoked about it, too!) Just took a bunch of pics of it this morning:
Kyosho Shadow Score (http://www.tsanrc.com/2011/05/kyosho-shadow-score.html) <- clicky
Unfortunately, finding another Galaxy Buggy may prove to be much more difficult!

[stevemardave]

my fisrt car was tamyia blackfoot in 1993 i think:thumbsup: 1st 4wd booscat ,2wd losi xx,1st 4wd on road tamyia tao3f pro,2wd onroad ff02 pug 306 maxi:wub

[quincey]

My first car was a Tandy Porsche 928 forward and reverse thingy,then after much persuasion I got a 2nd hand tamiya hornet which I raced at school Parma 1400scr's blue with red ends!!!! ( if you had these you were a racing god!),then after the usual bunch of bashers I left school and started racing at a proper club-tamiya madcap hopped up to the hilt then a cougar 2 racer then works edition also dabbled with a mantaray then a procat then after 3 years I left to follow beer and skirt.... Now after a return to the hobby I race and run allsorts and after having over 300+cars since I ever started I wished I kept all of them even the rare ones fab2000 cougar 2000,top models hybrid,all the rc10's I've had and last but not least my pb maxima.....only got rid of it due to modern batteries won't fit through it.....

[leverington]

I had a few as a kid but got fedup waiting for the battery to charge for it to only run for 3 minutes :(

I had a Tamiya Fox and then moved to a Mardave Marauder. Things got no better with that as I used to use a rubber wheel fixed on my dads electric drill held in Black & Decker Workmate. That was better as I used to fill the tank up with the engine running. That was until the throttle jammed one day and it went flat out through my mums greenhouse!

Built a few after that such as the Mardave IC stockcar and an original Mardave Mini but never raced for a further 26 years!

Now 26 years later I have a Mardave V12 and loving it!

[ch!3f]

my 1st was a tamiya m01 which was a love hate relationship i loved driving it and was pretty competitive but hated it as it cost a fortune for a sheet of plastic parts which you only got 1 of the part you needed to fix it,then it was the same part that kept on braking,
got a tamiya ta03 standard plastic thing then n was my dream car lol was in the a finals every week to with it wish i never swopped it for that preditor dtm now pile of dog muck that was!

[Steve.T]

Mardave Apache 1984.
I used the cycle six miles with the car, batteries, charger and tools in a back pack and pray that someone would let me use their car battery to charge off of.

[pugboy]

Tandy porsche 935 (2 speed!), tamiya pajero (how unstable?!), tamiya fox, kyosho salute, yokomo yz 870c, rc10 graphite, schumacher cougar, tomy intruder (retired 92)

[Teaboy]

Tamiya Supershot was my first raced at the origional Hereford track at the TA center, soon followed by swb Cat.

Cheers

Rich

[ch!3f]

i love the fact that nearly everyone started with a tamiya!

i remember why i got my 1st car now my brother bought a schumacher cougar 2000 second hand n it was like s**t off a stick was silly quick which made me want 1 but i got the mini probably the slowest car on the market but still made the b finals with it!

[teamorsum96]

i love the fact that nearly everyone started with a tamiya!

i remember why i got my 1st car now my brother bought a schumacher cougar 2000 second hand n it was like s**t off a stick was silly quick which made me want 1 but i got the mini probably the slowest car on the market but still made the b finals with it!

i didt lol :thumbsup:

[adon30]

i love the fact that nearly everyone started with a tamiya!

Mine was a Tamiya Super Sabre kit with acoms technisport, 1200SC tamiya cells and clockwork charger. It was painted in Tamiya green and aquired the nick name 'The Green Brick'.
After my first race meet I bought another pack of 1400Scr's to help me rotate batterys between heats. Then I went wild and brought ballraces, electronic speedo, Std motor and two more packs of batteries. I managed to win the club championship with this set up, standard class of course.

[twisty]

Tamiya Holiday Buggy for me,back in 1980.