MY 1st EVER R/C

[Dlux]

Thought I'd share with you's something a lil dear to my heart. It's pics of my first ever r/c car. A Toyota Celica. I remember wanting this one because my mum owned a celica when I was 5-6 years old. She was very hip then.............we were the Jones (hahaha). She had a white one though. This thing still works after 27 years of ownership. It's got pop up lights and air filled tyres. No biggie, just thought I'd share.

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[Dlux]

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[Dlux]

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[JD]

sweet, is that like a plug inlet on the exhaust thingo? lol

[KingBob]

haha, you know i used to hav one of those! Exactly the same popup headlights, charge jack and everything! Just didn't have the same stickers

[Dlux]

This thing has taken a real beating. Especially when I was younger. I'm stoked that I still have it after this long

[remotebandit]

sensational and you know whats the sad part , a collector like me would pay a fortune for it , but if it goes on ebay it wouldnt even get $10 .

i love the old stuff and thats a classic tandy example correct me if im wrong , takes 1 x 9V in the remote , 1 x 9V in the car along with 4 x AA

[Dlux]

almost. It takes 1 x 9v in transmitter and 6 x AA's in the car.

[remotebandit]

what scale is it dlux , looks like 1:24

[Dlux]

1:20

[remotebandit]

how much you want for it Dlux

[JD]

remember dlux he said he'd pay a "fortune" for it :)

[Dlux]

sorry. Gonna try and keep this till I pass it on in my will. Thats a bloody long time yet

[remotebandit]

hey , jd , you have a beautifull girlfriend there , i suggest you cuddle up with her on the couch and get off line till dlux gives me a price ... hehe

[remotebandit]

$100 in form of an Aus post money order , final call mate .

[Dlux]

Can't do it

[JD]

thanks adam, she was just here before lol

TAKE HIM TO THE CLEANERS DLUX!

[Dlux]

Can't put a price on memories. It's been with me in 3 different countries in 3 decades.

[remotebandit]

dlux , its sort of drifting off topic but i will stop after this comment but i was in Tandy on Thuirsday last week and there was a guy in there looking for a charger to charge an old RC car called the overlander . This cat is a 1:14 scale Version of the Wild Willy i guess youd say ( the Tayio version ) .

Anyway , it was in prestine condition and i had no shame and went up to him and sussed him out and told him i wanted to buy it there and then cash . He laughed it off sayig he was getting it all running for his grand son so no sale ( nicely ) . I pulled out a greeny from my wallet and said to him $100 now ( nicely ) and he still shrugged it off , anyway , i just got paid for a job and after pulling out 4 greenies , he still wouldnt sell . There is a model / hobby shop 3 doors down from this tandy store and i told him id buy his grand son a brand new Nitro RC car ( he had 2 he was clearing for $399 ) and the bloke still didnt budge .

I walked out of there ( nicely ) but in discussed , i cant believe he didnt want to sell up . The reason i wanted it like extreemly bad is because that car had sentiment to me as it was 1 of my first of the better cars . I swear to god , when he opened the box , i can even remember the smell of it as it was a childhood memory o never forget .

Anyway , that was my story .

[Dlux]

One day you too will be approached with offers. It's very hard to let it all go.

[James]

my first RC car was a "jet hopper", it had "turbo" on the transmitter! ph33r! :) I then 'upgraded' to a Tamiya Hornet, then Tamiya 'vanessas lunch box' then monster beetle, the rest is history :)

[remotebandit]

lmao@ James , very well put .

Yeah , the jethopper , first RTR Rc car that was able to hit 30kph , i loved it , in fact ive still got mine in its original box somewhere in storage . As far as the hornet go , Tamyia had 3 cars released that era which were the frog , the hornet and the Fox . ahhh , they were the days , the days you could win races with a Tamyia Fox ... lol

[BAGES]

ha ha ha Jet Hoppers - yeah I had a few - did a twin motor conversion on one once! It was Insane !!!!

[RohaN]

I had a mattel "fast trax"
I've still got it under the house somewhere & it still works!
I'll dig it out & post a pic some time
ahh nostalgia lane

[remotebandit]

hey bages you dog , twin motor on the jet hopper .... metro must have gotten the idea off you then when they brought out the bullet a few years later ... hehe

[BAGES]

ha ha ha never heard of the bullet - But my conversion was the best r/c EVER for donuts !!!! :-)

[remotebandit]

youve never heard of the bullet ... wtf , this is a first .

It was a twin motor 4wd 1:12 or 1:14 scale , bloody hammered hard . They were releasd about 2 years after the Jet hopper .

[BAGES]

kewl - I think you need to invest some of those greenbacks in a Hotshot - speaking of which...................:-)

[JD]

I don;t think i was even born when all thi was going on lol

[Dlux]

My first love was the Hornet but then I found other interests back then................GIRLS.

[slylux]

i got a frog when i was 12, ( now almost 26 ) i sold the frog for like $150 or so .. i never did anything but donuts .. just keep doing em till new tyres req .. but damm they went hard !

[remotebandit]

that was 1 of the biggest problems with the hornet and the frog ( from when i remember ) , they had soooo much power that you could actuially make the rear tyres bald in 1 charge and thats no bull . I remember even in 1 weekend at philip island id kill a set of rears and that was running it on gravel . Dad hated it and my chrissy , easter , birthday prezzies for a year were a few sets of rears .

Hey dlux , interest in girls ? was it you that about a month ago didnt even have the guts to talk to your bank chick , i could be wrong ... lol .

JD ... Those were the days when the generation of RC took off and started , you might have just been born i reckon and wernt old enough for the hype , now its just gone out of control .

[Dlux]

no not me

http://www.teamadrenaline.net/forum_viewtopic.php?9.11745

[JD]

remote, what year was it?

I was born in 85 :) but yea i was probably too young...

My first RC car, was some sort of 2wd buggy, me and my brother both got them fo christmas when i was about 5 or 6, I don;t know how good they were, it had one of those little changeble gears thingos, that you could change from high to low gear.. lol. Probably crap, but we had a ball with them :)

I have no idea where it is now, probably throw out years ago.

[remotebandit]

lets see jd , i was in grade 4 so were talking 1984 for the release of the jet hopper / mini hopper and about the same for the hornet , frog etc . In fact the bruiser was introduced bout 85 ( give or take 1 ) so you were born in a good year .. hehe .

dlux , that link dont work man

[remotebandit]

i just remembered , my first real competative car was called a PB mini Mustang and that was a gift for my 13th birthday , 1986 / 87 . Does anyone remember those cars , 1 of the first that needed an ESC .

[Dlux]

try again.

[mik068]

i remember the pb mini mustangs they had 2 speed gears and they killed off kyosho's hold on off road 4wd racing back in 86 for you young blokes

[remotebandit]

Mik , you da man . thats the 1 and obviously from the era ... lol .

Those cars were off their heads and unfortunately at the time due to fund the Typhoon Hovercraft that was just released , i sold the bastard for a measley $150 . The PB mini mustang now goes on ebay for over $900 if you can find 1 that is .

[mik068]

yep i sold mine cheap just after i stoped racing in 88 damn i sold all my gear back then optima chain drive and belt and the ultima only thing i have left is my fast attack vehicle

[Driphta]

Yep i must have been too young as well :o)

I remember racing RC's in America when i was 5 and i even believe i came 2nd in a race against adults but i don't know if they were going easy on me :o)

I don't know what it was some kinda monster truck thing that had a brass colour chassis... it got stolen about 5 years ago!!! Very very annoyed!!!

[rc101]

i had a tmaiya super hornet which realy copped a highding i had it upside down in water, new chassis, its even been up in flames and it still going stron it in bits now.

[ned]

holy shit
i just remembered ive got my first rc here. it an old tandy Porche Super 959. has digital proportional throttle and takes 6 "c" batteries and a 9v. i might buy some batts and have a go with it again.

[ned]

does anyone know the Tandy Unimog? im pretty sure ive got one of these here as well.

[Jai]

my first RC was an old porche and it didnt have steering u had to reverse to turn it around.. then i got some white off road 2wd buggy all plastic with friction shocks... then got hooked on the Kyosho RC cars about 5 years later

[fleggy]

My first RC, like soooo many others out there, was a Jet Hopper - xmas '88. I remember running it down at the park that morning with dad... After that I had to get a job to buy my next one - KFC kitchen hand >: - saved up then bought the Tamiya Fox and started racing at Baysie. Upgraded to a JRX2 not long after that and, well, here I am 15 years later with another Losi back at Baysie!!

[bazz]

i too had a jet hopper when i was 10 or 11, thought it was the coolest thing on earth. then my my older brother got a marui rip off of the wild willy called the golden eagle or something. i then got a marui hunter then a big bear that my brother put a le mans 600e in it. it went sweet though went through gears like they were going out of fashion. then a fox,hornet monster beetle,i also had a pb minimustang when i was 13 or 14. i had a few others , i got some photos somewhere i will put up. thats right i also had a shumacher cat xls. memories best time of my childhood.

[remotebandit]

my first ever rc car

[remotebandit]

try again

[remotebandit]

Matt Reckons its working so ill try once more .

My first ever RC car still mint in box working

[remotebandit]

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[remotebandit]

OK figured out why it wouldnt work , cause i posted this picture ALLONG time ago in another thread , it must be blocking duplicates , hence renamed the photo and now all good .

Get rid of this " duplicate " thing , its sux .

Anyway , nother shot of my first car

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[JD]

Cool - my fist RC car was a hornet i think , me and my bro both got one, one xmas when i was like 8 (and he was 7) got thrown out a loooooooong time ago lol

[Matt]

what duplicates?

[Matt]

what duplicates?

[desertgator]

my first car was a tamiya super hornet i no wat u mean about the rears the first time i drived it they were basicly bald now there like sliks so i use em as sliks lol im pretty cheap

[Vampyre]

My first RC car was some dodgy Tandy jeep thing that self destructed if you even took it close to a rough surface.When I was a bit older (can't remember when..too long ago) I got a Super Hornet which got the arse thrashed out of it.I still have it and it still goes.I have just cleaned it up a little.See my Super Hornet thread in Members Rides.My other cars are listed in my sig.



Vamp