1999 Question of the Week:
What was your first R/C car?
My first R/C car was a nikko buggy which took 8AA batteries to run the thing for about 20 minutes. Then my friend's dad got a TAMIYA Falcon, boy was this buggy sweet. The Falcon was so so big compared to my nikko buggy. The falcon had a 6cell 1200mAh battery that took all night just to charge. Then finally I got a Tamiya Falcon, futaba attack radio, and a pro-tech "quick" 8-) charger about 7 months later. The car was awesome at that time but would look primitive by today's car standards. But starting out cheap really isn't a bad thing because after awhile I started beating RC10's with my falcon.
Associated RC10DS
My first R/C was a New Bright (toy company) Riccochet. My second car was a Nickio Jeep.
Then on my tenth birthday i received a Traxxas RTR Stampede. Two months later I purchased
a Tamiya Tamtech Ferrari as a kit. Later in June I bought a Tamiya TL01 as a kit. This
December on my 11th birthday I received a RC10GT. The GT was the best car I ever owned!!
So in the space of about a year I have four hobby quality kits and I'm only 11 years old!
Now that's a dream come true!
John "go get em" Pearlman
RC10 Team Car
a teamlosi XXsport
my first was a RTRtoy
My first car was a Traxxas Rustler kit.
my first real rc car was a RC10GT not including radio shack and tyko stuff I got when I was really young
I bought a 1/14 scale Tamiya Mantis. It still runs! I have it stored until I can give it
to my children
kroupa
My first car was a Kyosho Raider. I had it for about 8 years. Then I recently got the T3 team. (HUGE upgrade)
My first R/C car was RTR toy, but I just purchased an RC10GT for my 16th b-day.
Tamiya SuperChamp
My first RC car was a turbo optima.
My first was an RTR, the MRC MT10S. A guy at the local track convinced her to buy it because it came assembled thinking I did not like to do that stuf. But now I never buy another rtr unless it is for my kids. I love my B3 and T3, just get me my TC3!!!
Kyosho Outrage Buggy, kit
hehe... this brings back memories.... my first ever r/c car is TOMY Char-G... its this little yellow car about 1/30 scale that goes only forward and spins right... it runs on electricity that you have to charge through the transmitter..... to think about it, i still have that thing
Tamiya Blackfoot...but my Dad put it together for me! I think I was only 6 or 7 years old, so it would have been pretty hard. the car I have now I could have gotten rtr but I chose to get the kit, because half the fun is putting it together!
Kit,Delta 1/8scale pan car over twenty years ago.
my first was a RC-10ce monster truck conversion purchased in 1991
my first r/c car was the tamiya rough rider. that was such a great little car. back then, in the early to mid 80's, there wasn't many hop up parts for the cars. mip started making alot of parts and that made it fun and faster to race. then your rc 10 hit the shelves and it was all over for all the other manufactures.
My first car was a 1/12 scale Kyosho Porsche 911 Carrera. It had an aluminum pan-car-style-chassis and was powered by a Mabuchi-380 motor and 4-cell battery-pack. I got it for my 5th Birthday in 1978. Then, about 12 years later, I bought a Tamiya Porsche959 Paris-Dakar with my first own money. My R/C madness started!!
My first car was an Jerobee 1:12 ic car, got it in the late seventies.
/Micke B. SWE
It was an RC10T3 KIT!
My first car was a Cox Lamborghini that used full size "C" alkaline batteries
and a stick radio.
Mark Pavidis, Team Driver, Team Associated
My first car kit was a Tamiya Hornet.
Duane Silva, Team Driver, Team Associated
My first car kit was a Tamiya Frog. I chopped the front end off it, lengthened it out to
30", and put a bunch of cells in it to make it go 100mph. Don't know where it wound
up... I never saw it again.
MROgle, promotion, Team Associated
My first car was an Associated RC300 1/8 gas.
Curtis Husting, foreman, Team Associated
My first r/c car was the tamiya hornet.I think tower hobbies even still carries it!
My first car was a Mugen Bulldog 4WD/4WS car bought in the summer of 86.....what a piece of JUNK!!! LOL :)
my first r/c was a crappy little nikko buggy. It ran on a 6-cell, so it got like 45 minuteds run time but it was slow.My first real r/c was a kyosho baja beetle with the qrc unit, it still runs great!
The Rc10T. I didn't like it. Now I have a B3 and want T3
my first r/c was a tamiya rough rider heavily modified, with kyosho shocks reedy mod motor. the works. this was 1982/83 i won wa state championship my first year racing, racing behind the B&I store.
my first r/c car was a kyosho outrage, then an rc10t then an rc10b3. its great!!!
My very first r/c car was a tamiya blackfoot and it did alot for one truck. It was my racer as well as a toy. It also was a show truck as well near the end of it's racing career. It is now fully retired to showdom. It was replaced by 2 L cars for racing with the newest one being an L 3.
My first R/C car was the rc10t. It is over 8 years old and is still in perfect
shape. it is
tough, and extremely durable. I love it.
cody daigneault
My first R/C Car was a Radio Shack Black Thunder 4wd buggy. I thought I was the coolest until a "friend" bought a team truck. So I had to have one. So my first REAL truck was an RC10 T2. I was a backyard basher until I discovered that you could actually race these things in organized competition. I began racing at age 23 and at age 24, I bought an RC10 T3. I helped to start an R/C club called Double "A" Racing and now I (we) race every other weekend at Cooper's in Va and I actually win one every now and then. Check out my setup sheet and the pictures of my truck on this web site. Andy Sumner Double "A" Racing
the rc10
A Tamiya Grasshopper
An RC10 bushing kit w/six gear tranny(1986)
Tamiya Super champ with VW Baja body(1982)
My first car was a Tamiya Big Wig 4WD,Yellow shocks, MSC,shaft driven front gearbox,& I think the tires were made out of steel!!!
In 1980 or 81 (I can't remember the year. It was too long ago) I beg my parents to buy me a real (not toy) R/C car and they bought me my very first Associated RC12/E. It has no diff and no ball bearings. The drive shaft is a solid steel rod! It come with a 05 motor (we call it the blue flag and the Reedy the yellow flag back then in HK) and I have to use a hammer to hammer in the pinion gear since the stock pinion does not have lock screw. It has no counter sink chassis but I love every single bit it :) Keep up the good work TA.
My first R/C car was a BoLink Sprint Car, from the Legends stable. I stayed with the same theme too, I now own a Custom Works Sprint Car, among others.
My first ever r/c car was one of those ones that had a wire on it and I got that car when I was when I was like 7 and I always took it apart and messed it up and 5 years later I got the L3 oval and I am racing well.
Heath kit 917 Porsche gas powered
Team Losi LXT
had me a Hornet
no joke an old(?) RC10ce and I still have the original chassis tranny with spare although it is now a rc10ds
i had hella Nikko cars, then i got an rc10t when it came out, or shortly after, and ive been racing ever since, only switched to losi, nothing against Associated but losi fits my driving better.
My first R/C car was a Traxxas Bandit. I put a lot of money into it, and it still runs good. Right now I have a T2, but I am glad I started with a lower performance car, it helped to have a little background.
I had a thing called the Rock Hopper. It was a cheap Tamiya Grass Hopper clone. It was identical with the exception of the material used. Their plastic was fragile, and as each part broke I replaced it with Tamiya parts. Eventual I raced this car with a lot of success. This was all about twelve years ago.
My first r/c car was a little monster truck and it was a tyco. It had a wire and i always took it apart it messed it all up.
I had a tyco high jacker and it lasted a long long time until one day my dad wanted to clean it and he used that cleaner that gets really cold and i started to use it and it fell apart.
my first car was a rc10 b3team
Timaya 4wd. Super saber. It was a pile of junk But it got me started in the rc racing arena. My first real race car was the associated rc10. Back in those days The rc10 was the only choice to race.
My first and still my best R/C car is a Tamiya TL-01. I get laughed at alot whenever I meet someone who hasn't seen me race, but they shut up pretty quickly when they see me tearing up the track in practice.
Tamiya SuperShot
My first RC car was a tamiya FROG. What I really wanted was a tamiya subaru brat... but luckily they stopped making the subaru brat by the time i knew it existed.
My first car was a Kyosho Tracker with all the hop ups and options with Lrp V6 and trinity
d2 motor.
Then i got a thunder tiger v-spec basically stock but converting to monster with ofna
monster blazer wheels and parma body.
And last but not least i received a associated rc 300 converted to a nitro pro drag truck
with Hpi truck body, custom built tube frame chassis, serpent evi 5 port sport engine that
puts out 42 000 rpms with a huge heatsink head, soft compound tires, ball differential, new
bearings, serpent manifold, innovative technologies tuned pipe.
A Bolink legends car. second is a traxxas stampede and third a RC10T2.
Tamiya TOA3F Kure Nismo 4WD Touring Car
A Tamiya Super Hornet it has to the worst model R/C car ever.
My first car was a used Losi LXT. It worked great until i broke a front-arm. I couldn't find a replacement, so i saved up and bought a T3. (BIG difference!)
T2
That's easy, RC-10T
Bolink Legands
Cox Scorpion
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