What was your first R/C Car?

[raney120]

I got a Tamiya Fox for Christmas in 89. My mom threw it away.

[samrsnow]

Jul 8, 2008 20:57:19 GMT -5 raney120 said:

I got a Tamiya Fox for Christmas in 89. My mom threw it away.

right after you got it?

[thebrushlessdan]

My first real RC was an E-Maxx in 2003. Before that, I went through eight toy RCs from Radio Shack, Tyco, and Nikko. Now it's all coming back to me...

[chiefmasterbeast]

my first Hobby Grade R/C was a used Traxxas Rustler, electric. it was in pretty poor shape when i got it, and never got any better. It had NASCAR Chevy Monte Carlo body on it and i remember having planns for that thing. but i broke it far too ofen, then the motro fell out and i just never got to fixing it. ( i was rather young at the time) so it sat, and sat. and i think it was thrown out after i moved out. my next was a Traxxas Jato. way too fast and too much to handle for me and i traded it in for an E-Maxx, which i had a lot fun with. Thats in pieces right now, some of them are on the T-Maxx i bought. Both the Maxx's are in the truck of my car back in New Jersey, but my Slash should be here soon.

[paloaltok5]

My first Hobby grade RC was the Tamiya F-150. Basically a Sand Scorcher/Rough Rider with truck wheels and body...back in...1983...got it for my 10th b-day and built it in a day...I miss that rig....

model number 58027
model name Ford F150 Ranger XLT
released 7-Oct-81
drive 2WD Rear
suspension Swingarms rear w/torsion bars, trailing arms front with hairpin springs, oil filled metal dampers
chassis desc. GRP w/aluminium stiffener, waterresistant radiobox
body Hard plastic
motor RS-540S
same chassis Click here for car list
original price 19000 Yen
width 222mm
length 407mm
height 187mm
wheel base 250mm
weight 2,200 grams

scale 1/10th
front tire Semipneumatic rubber tire
rear tire Semi pneumatic rubber tire



description:
The Ranger was the last of the racing buggy chassis cars (with the waterresistant radio crate) and was a poor man's Hilux (58028) at the time . In its own right it's a really great car and very detailed , the grile is a nightmare to paint and decals are impossible to find and the Sand Scorcher / Rough Rider chassis can make chassis spares expensive.

[skulliwulli]

Jul 2, 2008 12:35:08 GMT -5 createacrawler said:

My first RC car was a Tamiya GrassHopper. I ran the crap out of it. My brother rear-ended me with his BlackFoot and split the rear axel in half. I glued it back together using epoxy and nylon string. After the GrassHopper took all it could take I mowed lawns for what seemed forever to save up 140 bucks for a Team Associated RC10 that I bought from "Al" at Al's Hobby Shop (LHS). I ran the crap out of that too! It must have taken on every form of vehicle imaginable. It was a buggy, truck, street car, and a few others that don't even fall into a class. For example: A rocket car powered by Estes rockets. After that I bought a few cars here and there but mostly started piecing kits and raw material together to make my own stuff. It's been full speed ahead since then. I found RCC and Scale4x4 a while ago and it was like slipping into an old pair of shoes. There were actually people out there that had the same intrests as me. I was never happy with just going out and buying a kit. My latest project (in my free time) is a crew cab HighLift.

Holy cow, you sound like my twin that I never had! I started out with a hornet in 86, then a RC10 in 87. The rc10 had a few incarnations as the black Vette from The dead Pool, the Mercury from Cobra, and a double stretched rig I used from a sheet of thin plywood!

[Xipton]

Been doing slot cars for years,then one day in 2006 i bought my first one a Mini-T,never stopped since then hehehe