Tamiya Nostalgia

[remotebandit]

Guys , im pulling allot of cars out of retirement these next few months and trying to reco 1 a week .

Ill start with the Hotshot .

This is actually a re-release so ive cheated in this case on the vintage but its still part of that generation .

1 thing that is original vintage is the acoms transmitter , this i had to use on it

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[remotebandit]

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[remotebandit]

Its all assembled and working as i went up and down the loungeroom and now it will live the rest of its life on the shelf

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[Emlyn]

how old is it???

[remotebandit]

this ones only a 2007 re-release but its an exact copy of the 1985 one but from here on they will all be 80s im restoring .

by the way emlyn , love your location ...lol

[Emlyn]

cheers mate,
sounds like you got a few cars then

[Maxd out]

A consultant for maccas that i work with was reminissing about the old HOT SHOT he played with as a kid , he tells me he still has it in his shed and is looking to sell it if he could find a buyer .
What would 1 of these things sell for :?

[remotebandit]

in good nik their fetching about $200 . NIB about $500 .

Id offer him a few Big Macs and take it from there ... lol .

Seriously mate , if its in good nik , try him for $100

[eichkay]

Not all that old but it is a real odd ball one and hard to find.. Ive recently grabbed this TR-15T off ebay, in mint condition and not a scratch. It turned up today with its bx and manuals.

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[eichkay]

Doh, cant post outside fourm pics.

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[eichkay]

open view

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[Matt]

Did you buy it complete RB, or build it yourself?

[Emlyn]

that looks mint

[eichkay]

Did you buy it complete RB, or build it yourself?



I got it built. Its just been put on a shelf and never used by the looks of it.
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[Matt]

Nah that was directed to RemoteBandit (RB), but thats ok ... :)

[*TOP DOG*]

aha either way thats what RB would say/do
like the 15T tho!

[Dazz 68]

Mic 68 scored one of those TR15's several years ago.It was sitting on a shelf in Cash converters in brand new condition.They wanted $450 dollars for it.We told the guy that we only wanted the car as the radio gear was of no use to us so he kept the $20 Sanwa radio transmitter leaving the servos and reciever in the car and knocked $250 off the price.
We just smiled Mic handed over $200 and quitely walked out the door with it.

[mik068]

yeah im ashamed of this !whistle NOT!!! !evil

[remotebandit]

Mauri Samurai .

Scored it on Ebay last week picked it up today

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[remotebandit]

was described in the add as needing tlc but its pretty spot on

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[remotebandit]

chain driven , reminds me of a kyosho javelin for some reason

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[remotebandit]

I quickly assembled this last night for a pix but will get it running over the next week and also give it a proper clean as its massivlely full of dust

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[remotebandit]

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[remotebandit]

Boomerang .

Unfortunately the box i had it in snapped the rear wing so ebay it will be to find 1

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[remotebandit]

King Black Foot .

Once again needs a massive clean

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[Emlyn]

RB they look mint,
how much did u score the Mauri Samurai for,
if u dont mind me asking.

[KingBob]

RB if you find a Tamiya Monster Beetle in the stash let me know. I wish Tamiya would re-release it!

[Emlyn]

RB, if you had all of your R/C's together, do you think they would all fit in one room?

[remotebandit]

Ive got allot of stuff but bd581 got ALLOT of stuff

[Emlyn]

lol, i wish i had r/c's were i could go ohhhh thats where i put that.

[remotebandit]

Actually all jokes asside King , ill be honest to say dad bought me my first rc car at age 5 for my bday and from there up untill i started working part time at about 14 - 15 he gave my brother and i a great incentive .

He used to be a hair dresser and had a pretty healthy customer base and each haircut they did there me or my brother would sweep the floor after each haircut and hed give us 10c a sweep so we used to go in after school and on saturdays to work .

What hed do with me and my brother was tell us that if we ever wanted anything that if wed come up with half the money , hed put in the other half which i reckon was such a great learning lesson as i did pretty much work for everything i bought and it did mean more to me than if someone just gave it to me .

Anyway , i pretty much worked every day he did to save money and spend it on RC .

I now do the same deal with my kids that if they want something , they must come up with half and could earn it doing stuff around the house or with Bday money etc .

Anyway just a little background on allot of the old stuff i have and the Fox reminded me of that story as that was 1 of the last things i bought where dad went half with me .

[remotebandit]

I bought this last week and it arrived today .

Im going to fall just short of saying this thing is Mintapart from a few scuffs on the rims .

Ive got the rear gearbox casing out of it as he sold it to me minus gears but ive won a set of gears for it last night .

This car to me has the most nostalgia of all the Tamiya cars .. yes even over the bruiser .


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[revsinc]

cool Wild One.,
the first rc car i had was one,
i used it that much , i replace every part on it, then i drove it in to the ground,
It ended up in the wheelie bin , it was that worn out

[remotebandit]

lmao .

Mate all i remember was the gear clunking in them and then continually wearing out the 3 planetary gears and the 2 other steel gears that were connected to them .

I remember it like it was ytesterday that the gears would eventually wear in 1 direction so wed remove the whole planetary assembly and reverse it , obviously then it would clunk in reverse

[remotebandit]

My optima Turbo rrived today .

I wouldnt go to the extreem of saying mint but im gonna say 95% new and excellent nik as its obviously been a shelf queen for MOST of its life .

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[remotebandit]

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[MarkG]

How old is that RB? I see it's got a caron fibre top deck!

[Matt]

My Tamiya Falcon as she sits today (on the shelf).

Purchased off ebay in 2005 as a clapped out, rough looking plastic bomb, and over the years picked up new bits here and there to get it to this point.

Still require new front rims and tyres...




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[bd581]

Ive got allot of stuff but bd581 got ALLOT of stuff

lol. And its still growing
I've been away from the forum for a while and just noticed this thread.
Over time i'll have to start a simular thread with piccies.

See there is an Optima Turbo on ebay at the moment for over $2,000 :eek: good luck to him

[remotebandit]

2Gs .... tell him hes dreamin

[BAGES]

pity none of the old pics work in this link - I love the old Tamiya's :D

[Matt]

Yeah that happened with the site change over unfortunately. Maybe time to start the thread again and repost pics?

[SNPY]

Yeah .. re-start the thread! .. i'd love to see the pics