MrJinx76

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Your very first R/C car. What was it? Do you still have it?

Mine was a Tamiya Superchamp shared between myself and my younger brother. It was a Christmas present back in the early to mid 80`s. I still remember having to charge it for 12hrs just to get 10-15mins of runtime, but damn it was great fun!

[[john]]

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Mine was a Kyosho FW-05S, my Grandparents bought it for me during a stop-over in Singapore on the way back from the UK in 04/05.

Andrew Barr

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Kyosho nitro "Nostalgia Series" 250GTO (based on Pure Ten). Bought it back in 97 and ran it about 5 times . With the radio it cost me around $650. Just sold it on ebay.

My first RC Car I used for racing was a Tamiya TB02 (Calsonic 350z body) and that was about 5 years ago.

prinsipe

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My first RC is Tamiya Wild Willy for bashing only not for racing.

floss

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1st car was a Brand New Kyosho Pegasus 24 yrs ago , no longer with me

BBQboy

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My first ever R/C car was a tamiya TA-01 with a subaru impreza shell.
I used to race it at the north shore electric on road club. the front bumper on it destroys anything in it's path. Funny thing is that I still have in my garage.

BBQboy

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It also looks like at the moment that tamiya is dominating as the manafacturer who people chose as their first rc car.

shanemac

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My first R/C car was a Tamiya Hotshot , purchased from Hobbyco in Sydney when on an off weekend when I worked briefly in the Hunter Valley , around 1983. Built it in my construction camp "donger" one night and thrashed it around the place before bringing it back to Melbourne for more bashing. Never raced it though.......

My first race car was a Tamiya Fox , purchased in 1985

RIKSTR

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Mine was a Tamiya Fox, got it in about 1986, slowly upgraded with a Yokomo Turbo Motor,copy cat tyres and random electronic speedie. Still had it but lost it in the Canberra Bushfires

CraigM

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Tamiya Manta Ray, which shared a lot of parts with my first touring car the TA02 (celica gt4 rally version)

THAT SUX!!

LOSI123

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Mine was a Tamiya Super Hornet in the late eighty's i think it was.

Dragonfire

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My mates 1st car was a manta ray as well... Got it with a few other cars and lots of.old cells for $100 quite a few years ago. Raced those cars around the old BORMAC track for a few months.

My 1st sub C powered far was a tandy thing, 3 step forward reverse with the same basic chassis design as a hornet. Replaced with a madcap (tamiya) and then a dynastorm which was a seriously faster car.

magnuts

My first was 1984,a Pontiac, Trans Am, Firebird, static model I converted to rc. All radio gear and batteries were hidden in the engine block, seats and the boot(trunk for any USA readers). Looked brilliant, was not a racing model.
The first RC race car, I got 2 around the same time. Associated RC12E, and a Tamiya Subaru Brat.
The RC12E didn't need anything to be competetitive, but the Brat got the works. Ball diff, modified rear suspsension hangers and pivots, monoshock front and rear, anti roll bars, and a Volkswagon beetle for a body.
Sadly, neither have survived the years. The 12E became a 1932 Ford Coupe drag car, and caught fire when the speed control blew up. The Brat had a radio failure with a 10 turn motor in it, at full speed into a wall, it wasn't pretty.

Snowy

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My first car was also the Tamiya Superchamp.

My Dad bought it for me in 1985 after a stopover in Tokyo, after playing in a rugby tournament in England.

He also bought my brother a Frog and a pair of Futaba Attack stick transmitters. You should have seen his entire luggage! Lucky there was no such thing as excess baggage charges back then.

The trouble was, the instruction manuals were all in Japanese. But this didn’t stop me. Thanks to the very detailed pictures in the Tamiya instructions, I was able to build both cars without any problems.

We both ran the cars into the ground and then we upgraded to the Supershot and Fox. Sadly, the Supershot is the only car I have left but I will restore it once I have some free time.

Ah, those were the days...

Sandman77

It wasn't that long ago but mine was a Duratrax Evader BX in 2007, and I still have it