Originally Posted by burnineyes

Check out hobbypartz.com and hobbyking.com, they have great deals on some good items. I recommend you pick up very basic components for your first car. Later down the road you will have a better understanding of what you want or need from the components, and you wont have so much invested that it will hurt to replace them with better stuff. If you try to buy fancy stuff now it may do more harm than good.

I suggest the Flysky GT3 radio, very basic and reliable, but also very cheap.
I also recommend starting with a couple of cheap Nimh packs and a basic charger for your car. Lipos are just as cheap and offer better performance, but your car is not equipped to handle them and they do require that you learn alot about them before use for safety reasons.