Christmas / What was your first real RC?

[big78ford]

My first real RC was Tamiya Midnight Pumpkin. Back in 1988 my girlfriend and I were shopping in Kansas City (100 miles from home), my roommate was also along with us. We were at the JC Penney outlet store and I found the Midnight Pumpkin in kit form complete with Futaba 2 stick radio. I was real interested in it but didn't have the cash to spare.

Fast forward a couple of weeks to Christmas and my girlfriend hands me a pretty good sized box, It's the Midnight Pumpkin and I'm trying to figure out how the hell she got it. She distracted me at the store and my roommate buy it and sneak it out to the car. I had no idea she did that.

I put it together and started playing with it in the house and promptly ran it into her shin (oops). Yes I married her and now she has her own scaler. I still have the Midnight Pumpkin too, although I've replaced many parts on it. Just picked up a new chassis for it to replace the cracked one.

 

[jeepcrawler2011]

my first real r/c was tamiya falcon i was like 13 then i got a rc10 gold pan i wish i still had both cars i loved them merry christmas

 

[drywallguy]

Tamiya did pretty well off us. I had the old Grasshopper. Upgraded with oil shocks.( like it helped )

 

[TwistedXT]

Cox gtp

 

[Strychnine]

First R/C was a Tamiya Super Champ in 1983, wow I'm old...LOL...wish I kept it...

 

[tedo]

Mine was the Tamiya Lunchbox back in 1987!

I helped my stepdad build it, then we test drove it, then he boxed it up and put it under the tree for three more weeks...

One of my best christmases ever. I still have it, and it still runs with its awesome Airtronics stick radio.

I actually tried to harken my childhood memories by re-interpreting the "modern" Lunchbox....

 

[foratm]

My first rc was the one my father bought me when i was about 1 or 2 or something he actually bought it for himself it was a traxxas sledge hammer. He has pictures of me as a baby in a wagon tied to the back of the red sledge hammer being towed around.
Best part....
I still have it!!!!"thumbsup"

 

[Rockfrog]

Started off with a Marui Ninja 4wd, still have it and a parts car for restoration.

 

[Krawler Konceptz]

My first was a tamiya blazing blazer and wish I still had it. Almost got another about two years ago, but the guy was "odd" :shock:

Rob

 

[crunky]

aside from my tyco turbo hoppers, tyco bandit, and my nikko buggy my first hobby grade rc was the blackfoot i had gotten second hand from my dad's buddy. it came with a ton of different motors and a box of trail spares. i think i spent more time playing with motors, the gears and replacing them damned dog bones than anything.
"thumbsup"

 

[ceedawwg]

6 or 7 years ago I bought a Radshack Avalanche 9v 4wd which was pretty cool considering...couple years later I bought a Redcat Avalanche and I was hooked. Now I am the proud owner of 26 hobby grade RC's...this hobby is a phenomenal way to burn money and I couldn't be happier with the bonfires I've built...LOL.:lmao:

 

[King James]

team associated rct10

 

[FAT49F1]

My first was a tamiya blackfoot, amd still have whats left of it.

 

[Charlie-III]

My first real RC was a Tamiya Clodbuster , this was when the Clodbuster was new ! I am old lol
I remember building that kit , and still today , the build is one of the fun parts of RC .

Frikkin kid...........:shock:


:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Sheesh, some of us were into RC cars for years before the Clodbuster was released.

Glad you had fun as well as staying into it. Good times......"thumbsup""thumbsup"

 

[BLKXJ 96]

First was a Grasshopper, in about 1985. Then a Blackfoot, that I turned into a Frog. After cutting grass and collecting beer cans at the baseball fields across the street. I bought a gold pan RC10, ran that for a while. then got a black pan RC10 with a stealth trans.....This made me the "bad ass" (in my eyes)of all the 14 year old kids in the neighborhood!!!


I still have the RC10 and some of the Blackfoot....I think I have a Losi JR-X pro buggy around here too.

 

[cogfounder]

Tamiya Rough Rider, back in 1980.

Some pics here of the SRB series from back then,
not the updated re-issue kits.....


Vintage Tamiya SRB Series

 

[Rckcrwlr]

I had a Latrax LTX-40 Series Pan Car

 

[Josh_Br]

I remember that the same Christmas I got the Stadium Blitzer, two friends got gold pan RC10s. I thought they were sweet, and they had the resistor style esc, so they had reverse when I didn't . They still have the RC10s, and on that note I congratulate everyone above who still has their old rigs!

 

[EvilTwin v2]

I had a Nikko buggy that looked a lot like that Thunderbolt, but mine was black and had a 540 motor.

My first real hobby grade kit was a Tamiya Super Sabre (same as the Boomer. I remember I lost an e-clip when building it and had to wait 2 weeks to get to a hobby shop before I could run it.
The most fun I ever had with it was when a friend's parents drained their in-ground pool and we were allowed to run it in the empty pool.
Oh. I still have it along with another parts car.

 

[West Cork Basher]

First time a bought a propper RC was way back in the 80's from our local hobby store, seen two that a really liked ,I'd got compo money from a motorbike crash so I had the money to buy the two I wanted. .

Tamiya Grasshopper and the Tamiya 4x4 Hotshot. . . .

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