What was your 1st RC car?

[terik.m]

I was going thru old boxes and found my old Tamiya Grasshopper. I loved that thing!!! It was slow as hell so I upraded to an RC 10. I found that one too. Were any of you into RCs back in the day too?

 

[gnpoweredrail]

Tamiya Super Champ,Sand Scorcher,Grasshopper,Monster beetle.
I have had over 30 r/c cars

 

[Boost231]

my first REAL one was a RC10 gold pan. i wanted a grasshopper so bad, my neighbors was so fast. but then again he had more money then me

 

[jlat]

hello people; Mine was a optima mid. I started late in the RC. I was in my
20's and it's an off road 4wd car I was using on carpet.
IBBY

 

[ZNix]

Nikko Monster Truck! The best truck ever

 

[KevinB]

My first real one was an team associated rc10 too. Second was a losi lxt. Used to race them from the ages of 13-17. I think I can trace my car addiction back to this hobby. I kinda dropped the hobby when I started working on my first car and the fact that the races were on the weekend nights which was not a good time to have them for a highschool kid. Beer and girls and my 68 fairlane took over lol I still have all my equipment. Thinking about getting it out for my young boys.

 

[SGRIM]

The Frog!

 

[gunslinger]

Tamiya Hornet, then a Frog.

 

[NEVER ENOUGH]

I was going thru old boxes and found my old Tamiya Grasshopper. I loved that thing!!! It was slow as hell so I upraded to an RC 10. I found that one too. Were any of you into RCs back in the day too?

First was a grasshopper.
1st real one was an 1984 RC10.....Yup still have it

 

[Mike Licht]

Gas Powered RC500 was the first, then a Clodbuster
ML

 

[pwr6kid]

First on for me was a CEN Racing Stadium Truck that lasted a year (i was 13) . I got out of them and last spring I started with a HPI RS4 and a Ofna MBX.

 

[alwayscode390]

My first one was a TRAXX ( it had tank like rubber ). Thats probably not the right name, lol.

First Nitro is a Tmaxx and rs4 (bought them together ) ---

 

[terik.m]

Haha LMAO check this out. Is the owner of this a forum member?

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC0-W23RnJQ[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Fast87Buick]

Mine was a gold pan Associated RC-10 in about 1985, which was later converted to a truck. Went on to race everything electric from dirt off road 2wd (graphite rc-10) and 4wd (optima's), dirt oval 2wd (custom built cars) and 4wd (dominator) to on road 1/12 scale (rc-12 and agitator) and on road 1/10 scale (agitator and custom built cars). Ended up racing at the regional and national level before the money ran out. Even had a tamiya road wizard and hornet for fun. Still have most of them, about 15 left. Never did get into the nitro cars though. Was fun at the time, but when I think of all the money spent, it would have been better spent on the real car hobby or invested in stocks.

 

[V6RACER]

Grasshopper was my first..then RC10s Ultima's aluminum and graphite chassis.. Dumped a lot of money into that back in jr and high school went all over racing them too.

 

[cchilly]

I started with the Optima, then Monster Beetle, Clodbuster and RC10(gold chassis). They were a lot of fun. Just wish the damn batteries would last longer.

 

[Rodney87GN]

My first real RC car was a Tamiya Boomerang...it was kinda slow because it was 4WD and didn't have ball bearings, lol. In contrast my good buddy had a Tamiya Fox and he'd always whoop my ass in a race. I put in a Twister motor and turned the tables on him hahaha.

I remember back in the day everybody had a Frog, Grasshopper, or Hornet.

Good topic...hearing all these old school RC cars brings back good memories.

 

[gnpoweredrail]

Tamiya has brought out alot of the old cars again and are for sale at hobby shops.

 

[chopped39]

My first was the Big Bear then the Wild Willies jeep. I had a Vanning then a jackrabbit.Then the helicopters started and then ended:biggrin:. I just traded a big block chevy engine for a Hyper 7.This thing was fast for five mins before I smashed it into the fence

 

[Roc87]

Electric 1/10 Bolink, no suspension, foam tires, monster truck motor that would kill the battery in 7 min. Had a Monte SS nascar body, couldn't find a regal