RC cars

Ocean Breeze · 26 Dec 2019 at 15:39

wazza300 said:
Haha I still have my original 80's tamiya lunch box

Did you even use it? It looks new!

wazza300 · 26 Dec 2019 at 15:45

Ocean Breeze said:
Did you even use it? It looks new!

Thats not mine just a reference pic,mines up in the attic,same yellow colour,my dad built it and painted for me for christmas

Ill have to grab a pic if I get chance,they started making them again in 2006 or 2016 I think

MissChief · 26 Dec 2019 at 15:58

I got a Tamiya Hornet kit for my Christmas one year. Then had to wait until September for the RC kit for it! Was awesome though and chuffing fast too! Not sure what happened to it either. Might still be in my parents loft.

Vidar · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:02

Am going to have to pick one of these up I think...

The Funktopus · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:16

Had a Tyco Bandit as a kid in the early 90’s, bloody thing went like poop out of a goose and was damn near unstoppable. Only issue with it being so fast was that it’d run out of it’s controller’s range if you weren’t careful, and would just keep going until it eventually hit something going full tilt. Spent ages glueing it back together.

Mobius 1 · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:20

My nipper got a carerra mario Kart rc car a few years ago for his birthday, and it went like the clappers. Really fast over wooden floors or carpet.

wazza300 · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:24

The nitro cars are even faster 60mph

@MissChief I remember the hornet aswell

Duke · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:30

I had one of the Tandy ones with decent suspension :cool:

This exact model/livery:

xb8browney · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:37

My username is actually from my nitro days

MOOGLEYS · 26 Dec 2019 at 16:54

MissChief said:
I got a Tamiya Hornet kit for my Christmas one year. Then had to wait until September for the RC kit for it! Was awesome though and chuffing fast too! Not sure what happened to it either. Might still be in my parents loft.

I swapped my Master system for a Hornet and lots of spares. Was great fun and quick although the battery packs did not last long. We used to build jumps out of milk crates and road signs.... lol....

K.C. Leblanc · 26 Dec 2019 at 17:33

Mrs Leblanc bought her 7 year old a hot wheels remote controlled car. It had stopped working within 20 minutes.

adam cool dude · 26 Dec 2019 at 18:24

I bought my daughter a wltoys stadium raider. 1/18th scale a couple of years ago. Cost £35 from China and is a lot quicker than my Tamiya Celica GT-Four I had as a kid. Last a lot longer with lipo batteries as well. Ni-Cad were really terrible. I never understood the hype with Tamiya anyway. Yes their bodys were the best but the chassis always left a lot to be desired. Plastic bushes, non locking differentials. Only able to accept stick batteries. My associated TC3 was in a different league.

Yrkoon · 26 Dec 2019 at 18:27

wazza300 said:
The nitro cars are even faster 60mph

@MissChief I remember the hornet aswell

nah get the traxxas leccy one that does 100 mph out the box

edit: i got my self one of these when i was a kid for my main chrissy present, i had so much fun with it and the thing was near unbreakable

https://www.rcscrapyard.net/uk/kyosho-tracker.htm

went for it over the lunch box.

Nasher · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:13

adam cool dude said:
I bought my daughter a wltoys stadium raider. 1/18th scale a couple of years ago. Cost £35 from China and is a lot quicker than my Tamiya Celica GT-Four I had as a kid. Last a lot longer with lipo batteries as well. Ni-Cad were really terrible. I never understood the hype with Tamiya anyway. Yes their bodys were the best but the chassis always left a lot to be desired. Plastic bushes, non locking differentials. Only able to accept stick batteries. My associated TC3 was in a different league.

People use plastic bushes in real cars (polyurethane). They never rot

adam cool dude · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:15

Nasher said:
People use plastic bushes in real cars (polyurethane). They never rot

I meant bushes as in the rotating kind. Uprating them to ball races was almost mandatory as the nylon ones would oval in a matter of seconds.

arc@css · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:18

I remember them taking forever to charge up (~16 hours), only to yield around 20 minutes of use before going flat again.

Nitefly · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:37

I don’t think anything in life has ever got me as pumped up as the advert for the rebound 4x4.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:41

First semi-decent car was a Tandy Turbo Fox, cost 30 quid in the late 80s. Had a speed selector switch on the back- actually pretty quick in 'Hi' mode, but took an age to get there...
Took me years to kill that thing. Built like a brick outhouse.

Kinda fell out of the hobby before getting much further into it, but a few years ago I picked up a couple of nitro cars on Ebay, one road car and a Hobao Hyper 7 buggy.
They're still sat in a box. Haven't used them once! I'll get round to it one day...

hyperseven · 26 Dec 2019 at 19:56

Losi 1/18 cars are decent for kids, fast and tough but expensive.

wltoys 12428, very popular, fast-ish and loads of parts available and quite cheap RTR from ebay/banggod etc.

theone8181 · 26 Dec 2019 at 20:00

Nitefly said:
I don’t think anything in life has ever got me as pumped up as the advert for the rebound 4x4.

That's what my little brother had. My parents still have it but the controller is dead. I had some green lizard thing, may have been a Tandy special. That thing took 8 AAs iirc. I've bought my kids some little cheap things from Amazon and they're great, but too small for outside use (1:24 scale), they were around a tenner so not exactly expensive, but as the kids are young I didn't want to spend a fortune and these (and my skirting

) have suffered a lot of abuse.