[Closed] for tamiya fans,this is awesome 🙂

Cool! 😀

WOW!

Nice find 8)

I had the 97 edition that i'd spend hours pouring over.

heh cool

Mmmmm

Cheers

Danny B

Thank you 🙂

There is something about about Tamiya RC cars that is nice and wholesome and fun.

I used to race much better (and expensive) RC cars but there is something just nice about Tamiya ones. The boxes make you want to build one and imagine you are a racing driver, even when its just sat on the shelf.

I always thought that Tamaiya cars had a sort of Manga look about them - very Japanese and cartoony. I had much nicer R/C cars but Tamiya always held a place in my heart

Funnily enough, I saw someone driving an R/C car in the park yesterday and it did make me think that something like Lunchbox would be a great starter for my son (5 yrs old) as they were cheap, brilliant fun and pretty well indestructible from what I recall.

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Clubber/ Lunchbox- that's a pretty good analogy for you and your riding isn't it ?

🙂

I'm wondering if there's a Tamiya car called the 'disaster' for yours 😉

My dad used to manage a model shop when I was a kid.

I used to spend hours reading the Tamiya catalogues and imagine buildign all the kits.

This one looks very familiar;

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BY THE GODS PEOPLE,I HAVE JUST FOUND OUT THERE WILL BE A RE-ISSUE OF THE FOX!!! 😀 [img] [/img] http://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-nova-fox/rc-car-products/376225 due out 1st august.

i am gonna have to buy one (jumps up and down with excitement 😀 it was the first tamiya model i ever had a go on (a kid at my primary school had one.i wasn't jealous in the slightest oh no not me 😐

The Frog is out too 🙂

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Rubbish car but I had one

I was never all that into it but I did have a Fox that was second or third hand. When steering the outside wheel hardly moved, so the only way to get it to change direction at speed was by powersliding.

I've got a complete, original, Frog in bits at my parents somewhere...

Mate of mine, who I used to race with has, started collecting older RC buggies from our era - his garage has an ever growing collection of various CAT's, Optima/Optima Mids and Tamiya buggies (he's particularly fond of a mint Bigwig he's just bought). Always a hoot to go round there and thrash a couple of them, esp against the newer brushless stuff and marvel at how fast we thought a 17-double motor was 😉

Yeah, I was wondering what the latest kit's like in comparison - when I finished up, it was pretty standard to be running SCRCs (1800mah IIRC) and at Eden Park at least, between 10 and 13 turns which was pretty quick.

Go to youtube and find the clip of Hirosaka winning the worlds with the first long wheelbase CAT at Romsey in '87 (was it??).... then go to something like http://www.eurooffroadseries.com/ or rcracing.tv and compare and contrast. Bonkers-nuts...

Ha ha excellent find ... As a 14 year old in 1977 I used to get the train to Southmapton to go to the Tamiya model shop. Had a wonderful flashback when Cotic told me the paint match for my BFe frame was a Tamiya colour 😀

Yeah, I was wondering what the latest kit's like in comparison - when I finished up, it was pretty standard to be running SCRCs (1800mah IIRC) and at Eden Park at least, between 10 and 13 turns which was pretty quick.

Last time I had an electric car, 1700mah SCRC NiCads were standard (and bloody expensive), Nimh's came in not long after and pretty much doubled the capacity overnight after that I think. They're pretty much all on LiPo's now from what I've seen.

My last electric car was a 1995 Schumacher Cougar 2000, Nosram Dominator Speed Control, running a 12 turn Triple motor (in a rear wheel drive buggy!). It went very quick in a straight line, but didn't turn corners too well.

First proper RC car though, and why I like so many others will always have a massive soft spot for Tamiya, was a Hornet. In retrospect it was absolutely rubbish, even for its day, but it was the way which Tamiya managed to give all their models such character I think that really appealed to the young school boy in me.

My brother had a fire dragon, then swapped for a avanti that he never got going. Good days!

Thanks recefaceec90 great find!

I remember watching SwapShop or some other Noel Edmunds kids programme which had rc cars on it around 82 or 83, and I persuaded my dad to take me to London to Beatties models.

I ended up getting a Tamiya Audi Quattro which was had a similar chassis to Wild Willy. Not the best to drive but I loved it, and they're pretty rare now.

I spent ages looking through the Tamiya catalog, and nearly managed to talk my folks into buying me a Toyota Hilux!

I also got a new fox when they first came out, and bought a used Kyosho Scorpion from someone in the local rc club.

Totally agree there's something about Tamiya's, my brothers Kyosho Optima was much better to race, and I thought RC10's were better as well, but Tamiya's just had something about them.

Here's a pic of my re-release frog, and my GMaxx/UE Maxx
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There's an hour gone on YouTube videos of old tamiya cars